The 11th Street Machine Drag Challenge presented by VPW wrapped up at Victorian Motorsports Park in Heathcote, Victoria, with reigning champion Brandon Zito and AFL legend Barry Hall taking out the top awards.
The NHRA Vegas Nationals is the penultimate stop for the 2026 NHRA Championship season and there was quite some Australian influence with Peter and Helen Russo’s ‘Working Class Hero’ Nitro Funny Car back in action, series regulars Jamie Noonan and Richie Crampton in Top Alcohol Dragster and Warren Allen in Competition Eliminator.
In the leadup to the rescheduled SPRY Spring Nationals Grand Final, the National Drag Racing Championship (NDRC) has today released its 2027 calendar, delivering a packed national program as the series enters its fourth season.
The 2026 edition of Street Machine Drag Challenge was the biggest ever with entries maxed out at 300 taking up the 5 day Drag & Drive challenge starting and finishing with Victorian Motorsports Park while treking to South Coast Raceway, Dragway At The Bend and Mildura’s Sunset Strip in between.
Staging lanes. Marker in hand. The sun’s dropped, the air’s changed since your last pass, and you’ve got one shot at the number. Too quick, you break out. Too slow, you’re chasing it down the track. Either way, you’re loading up early and replaying it the whole drive home.
The Grand Re-Opening for Perth Motorplex Drag Racing will take place at the GOLDENSTATES – Friday & Saturday December 11 & 12, 2026!
With the focus on tough street machines King Of The Street events have returned to the refurbished Victorian Motorsports Park where racers can throw down in heads up racing to see who will be crowned king.
Daniel Cassar has spent years building a hot rod that can turn heads on the street and mix it with some of Australia’s quickest naturally aspirated drag cars. Now, after a six-month rebuild and a last-minute dyno setback, he’s bringing his matte-black 1933 Ford coupe to Street Machine Drag Challenge with one big goal still in his sights: a seven-second pass.
Warren Mitchelson didn’t need long to decide he wanted to do Drag Challenge. After tagging along with mate Marcus Skilbeck at last year’s event, he was hooked — and by day two, his wife and daughter Bianca knew he’d be building a car of his own.
Conquering at the home of radial racing, Queensland’s Grantley Scholes has won PRO 275 at No Mercy for the second consecutive year, becoming a back-to-back champion at what’s widely regarded as the world’s biggest and baddest radial racing event at South Georgia Motorsports Park in the United States.
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