Of all the ways you don’t want to start a drag race, this one would be up there.

The Eastern Creek Performance HJ Holden was an icon of the Wild Bunch racing heydays, and now the car that famously ran down the Eastern Creek’s Christmas Tree is coming back.

Every race driver has a ‘happy hunting ground’ and for Sydney-based Aeroflow Outlaw Nitro Funny Car racer Shane Olive, Brisbane’s Willowbank Raceway has been the track that he has both enjoyed and dominated in recent times.

Pro Stock favorite Shane Tucker will return to the USA to compete this weekend at the NHRA Four-Wide Nationals. Tucker currently plans on attending 14 races in 2017 and running their own engine program all season.

Entries are now open for Nitro Up North – the biggest adventure in Australian drag racing!

One of the highlights of the Queensland Drag Racing calendar, the Cruzin Magazine Nostalgia Drags and Hot Rod Reunion, is knocking on the doors of Willowbank Raceway as hundreds of the country’s best hot rods and race cars of yesteryear prepare to fill the state’s premier motorsport facility for a family-friendly weekend of retro fun.