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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.
The Melbourne Jamboree has officially opened competition drag racing at Victorian Motorsports Park. The rejuvenated venue, formerly known as Heathcote Park Raceway, has brought championship-level quarter-mile racing back to Victoria. Jamboree fans filled the spectator areas to watch high-horsepower imports and high-tech weapons belt down the regional strip.
The Australian National Drag Racing Association (ANDRA) and the Australian Street Rod Federation (ASRF) have announced a new partnership to promote drag racing, motorsport, and street rodding across Australia, signing a Memorandum of Understanding that both organisations say is about encouraging safe participation and getting more members behind the wheel.
The National Drag Racing Championship (NDRC) and The Bend have made the decision to reschedule the Spring Nationals NDRC Grand Final to November 20 – 22 due to this weekend’s poor weather forecast.
If you’ve been around Drag Challenge for a while, chances are you’ve seen Anthony Burns and one of his cars. The Harcourt local has never missed one since general entries opened, and this year he’s bringing back a familiar face, his burgundy R31 Skyline.
Victorian Motorsports Park is alive! Following a phenomenal redevelopment effort by the venue’s new owners to revitalise the former Heathcote Park Raceway, the facility roared back to life last weekend with its Grand Opening and first test session.
Former AFL star Barry Hall is returning to the drag strip this October, taking on Street Machine Drag Challenge presented by VPW in his VH Holden Commodore as he targets a top-five finish against some of Australia’s toughest street cars.
Jake Hamilton-Moderate has become the first ANDRA championship event winner in Extreme Bike, taking out the bracket’s maiden ANDRA Christmas Tree at the All Bike Nationals at Dragway at The Bend.
Championship drag racing and burnout action are making an epic return to Central Victoria this Spring with Australia’s toughest street-car challenge and a $20,000 showdown at the newly renovated Victorian Motorsports Park.
South Australia will host the National Drag Racing Championship (NDRC) Grand Final for the first time when more than 200 cars and bikes descend on Dragway at The Bend for the SPRY Spring Nationals from 22–25 October.
There aren’t many cars that look quite as at home on the streets of Echuca as Clive Polidano’s blue HZ Holden.
The inaugural Ballistic Performance Parts QLD AllBike Super Series came to a thrilling conclusion at Willowbank Raceway on September 26, with championships decided across four brackets and Russell Bell claiming the honour of becoming the first-ever winner of the prestigious John Kreis Clockwork Orange Trophy for overall points winner.
The Paramount Performance team has been pushing the limits of the humble LS engine for years, establishing itself as the benchmark for LS-powered drag racing in Australia. Now, that relentless pursuit of performance has delivered a well-deserved milestone: the first five-second LS pass in Australia.
Drag News is saddened to hear of the passing of Robert Maggs.
Best known for his spectacular wheelstanding Monaro, SNAFU, during his racing days, Robert became a familiar and much-loved figure in Australian drag racing. Always loved to have a chat, he left a lasting impression on those he met and a proud legacy through Maggs Racing.
Following the All Bike Nationals, the NDRC group one and Aeroflow sportsman competitors now head to the season decider: the SPRY Spring Nationals at Dragway at The Bend (October 22-25)
The All Bike Nationals presented by Harley Davidson have been run and won at Dragway at the Bend. On track on Saturday October 10 was ANDRA Regional Sportsman Series racing for Nitro Voodoo Junior Drag Bike, Nitro Voodoo Modified Bike, Nitro Voodoo Competition Bike, and Motorcycle Transport and Repairs Extreme Bike, as well as NDRC championship racing for group one brackets, Top Fuel Motorcycle and Pro Stock Motorcycle.
After 12 years working behind the scenes in Top Fuel, Dean Rossiter is sitting into the driver’s seat with a 1981 VH Commodore he’s building to take on one of Australia’s toughest street car events.
Few cars have made as big an impression on the American drag-and-drive scene as Snot Rocket 2.0, but the iconic green Mustang is about to embark on a whole new adventure. Now in Australian hands of Anthony Mesko and Tommy Pronobis of Dyno House, the former Brett LaSala machine is set for a radical transformation that will see it trade its twin-turbo V8 power for a distinctly Aussie Barra combination.
The Aeroflow Sportsman Championship is set to come to a dramatic head later this month at the SPRY Spring Nationals – the 2026 NDRC season grand finale.
Daniel and Lisa Gregorini’s Top Doorslammer season has been far from perfect — they would acknowledge as much — but the turnaround for Scratch & Match Motorsport has begun in earnest thanks to some positive results at the recent East Coast Nationals at Sydney Dragway.
Father and son Ian and Kobe Ashelford are ready to take on this weekend’s All Bike Nationals (October 10) at Dragway at The Bend, a vital points-scoring opportunity for the two-wheeled racers of both the ANDRA Regional Sportsman Series and the National Drag Racing Championship (NDRC).
Izzy Woolcock made her Nitro Voodoo Junior Drag Bike debut as part of a dual entry campaign at the recent Mildura City Council Sunset Nationals, not only successfully gaining her bike licence, but also claiming a first-round win while clocking personal bests on every single pass.
Lamattina Top Fuel Racing endured a challenging weekend at the Haltech East Coast Nationals, with a series of setbacks ultimately bringing the event to a difficult close, but the team remains firmly in control of the Top Fuel championship standings.
Steve Read has run the quickest pass of his Top Fuel comeback, a 4.037-second, 471.28kph effort in the final Top Fuel run of the Haltech East Coast Nationals.
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