Drag racing is more a team sport than most people imagine. It takes a small army of dedicated souls behind the scenes to bring a race vehicle to the track – especially if it happens to burn nitro.

Benny Phillips is one of the many FIFO workers in Darwin, far away from his home in Victoria. But he has taken advantage of his work situation this year by bringing his Holden Torana with him to go racing at Hidden Valley Drag Strip.

Drag racers have complained about traction on drag strips for years – normally the lack of. But this little guy was left very upset by too much traction at Sydney Dragway.

Ironbark Raceway in Roma hosted round three of the short track series on Aug 6. “The series went off really well. We picked up another 23 on day entries and if it had not been for the clash with the All Bike meeting at Benaraby we would have had another over 100 entry list,” said series organiser John Winterburn.

A massive crowd enjoyed a huge day of racing at the newly completed Springmount Raceway near Cairns.