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The NSW Drag Racing Championship series returned from its Winter hiatus, and while a huge entry of racers were keen, the event was hit by a bunch of bad luck that saw the racing program cancelled before completion.
Cooper Plummer has tasted plenty of success in Junior Dragster in both the ANDRA and NDRC sportsman championship ranks and is now turning his talent towards a new goal: the first ANDRA Junior Drag Bike Championship.
The Australian National Drag Racing Association (ANDRA) is pleased to announce that long-time ANDRA insurance broker and supporter of the ANDRA Volunteer of the Year program, Gallagher, has retained its backing of the Modified Eliminator bracket ahead of this weekend’s commencement of the 2025/2026 ANDRA Sportsman Series.
The Australian National Drag Racing Association (ANDRA) is pleased to announce that the South Australian Drag Racers Association (SADRA) has once again taken on bracket sponsorship within the ANDRA Sportsman Series, backing the Super Sedan bracket for the 2025/2026 ANDRA Sportsman Series.
Leon Davies heads to this weekend’s Nitro Up North and Wednesday’s Desert Nationals – rounds one and two of the 2025/2026 ANDRA Sportsman Series – on a mission: to begin his campaign for three straight ANDRA titles in the best way possible.
In addition to its support of the just-announced new ANDRA Championship Racer Support Program, Ballistic Performance Parts and ANDRA are pleased to confirm the company is also continuing its sponsorship of the ANDRA Sportsman Series’ Modified Bike bracket.
As the countdown to this weekend’s commencement of the 2025/2026 ANDRA Sportsman Series continues, ANDRA and Ballistic Performance Parts are pleased to announce a new ANDRA Championship Racer Support Program for the Modified Bike and Junior Drag Bike brackets.
Nitro Up North, presented by LMCT+, is set to bring the thunder to the Hidden Valley Drag Strip this Friday and Saturday with an epic drag racing show for the ages.
After 24 years away from Pro Stock Motorcycle a rejuvenation of the class has seen Paul Andrews returned to the bracket he loves riding straight into the low sevens. Check out this interview about his return year recorded by Pro Stock Motorcycle Australia.
Springmount Raceway has released a statement regrettable announcing the venue can not remain open for the rest of 2025. The owners will be looking to lease the venue out for operation in 2026.
Two massive grand finals, one massive day: that’s what race fans can expect at Sydney Dragway this Saturday (August 23) as the National Drag Racing Championship (NDRC) brings its 2024/2025 Top Fuel and XPRO Nitro Funny Car championship chases to an epic close at the Nitro Nationals.
This Saturday’s Grand Finale of the 2024/2025 NDRC Top Fuel Championship, the Nitro Nationals at Sydney Dragway, sees Hydraulink Jim Read Racing presented with the opportunity to bookend their season in style.
On the eve of the return to racing for the NSW Track Championship at Sydney Dragway following the Winter break, we look back at round three of the championship and who won what.
Joe Gauci is ready to rumble at the Brisbane Jamboree in the toughest Pro Mod field ever assembled in Australia. It’s been just over 12 months since the Nitro Champs accident to rebuild the ’67 Mustang at Profab Motorsport Fabrications and final result is sleek and stunning.
PDRC Pro Stock Championship leading Unique Racing team take us behind the scenes at the 2025 Nitro Champs in a rare insight into what it takes to run Pro Stock.
Our final epic 2025 Winternationals gallery is here! Action shots, presentations, and everything in between — all wrapped up in one last drop. Photos by Cackling Pipes
A spectacular crash at the 2025 Sydney Jamboree hasn’t kept Maatouk Racing’s Factory Xtreme R35 GTR ‘The Don’ on the canvas for long as these rebuild shots show, thanks to ProFab Motorsport Fabrications.
Congratulations to all the winners from Round 4 of the Palmyra Drag Racing Club Inc Track Championship over the weekend, the team pushed through some sketchy North Queensland weather to complete the event.
Australian Nitro Funny Car icon Peter Russo – who is based in the US making sporadic appearances in the NHRA – has a new piece of kit, showing off a new body upgrade.
Jeff Cutajar cut his first laps in the original and once world record holding Batmobile Top Doorslammer campaigned by Peter Kapiris. The car now owned by Jason Cunliffe has finally been returned to its former glory and active duty, with a best of 6.17 during testing yesterday that was found out to be run on just 7 cylinders.
‘Aussie Dave’ Grubnic has once again proved he is the speed king tuning Brittany Force to a ground pounding 343.16mph record run just now – that’s 552kph for those playing at home.
The highly anticipated debut of Johnny Ricca’s world record holding Pro Mod Camaro on Aussie soil didn’t disappoint, smashing the quickest ET ever seen out of a door car in Australia during testing at Sydney Dragway.
The owners of Heathcote Park Raceway have released the following statement on the immediate future of the venue.
It still is fastest Pro Stock car in Australia, but the former Dodge Avenger once campaigned by Lee Bektash to the first Pro Stock 200mph pass in Australia has been reborn as Warren Allen’s Outlaw Radial Avenger.
The drag and drive scene is exploding world wide, in Australia, Allstars Drag and Drive is the latest iteration that saw entrants soak up three fantastic days of racing across two tracks carrying, or towing everything they needed from Willowbank Raceway to Warwick Dragway and back again.
While we eagerly wait for the National Drag Racing Championship to resume with s series of events that will cap off the rest of the professional National Championships, we have lock and loaded another bunch of wicked shots from the epic Winternationals.
American drag racing legend Tommy Johnson Jnr has officially thrown his hat in the ring for the upcoming Nitro Nationals, which will host what is expected to be an explosive NDRC final for the fire-breathing 11,000hp/500kph+ Top Fuel and XPRO Nitro Funny Cars at Sydney Dragway on August 23.
Evolve Facility Management (operators of Perth Motorplex), in partnership with VenuesWest, is excited to announce that the State Government has approved funding to commence a full replacement of the drag strip at Perth Motorplex.
After a season that has swung widely from complete domination to bitter disappointment, Hydraulink Jim Read Racing will be seeking to get their revenge at the upcoming NDRC Top Fuel Championship finale, the Nitro Nationals at Sydney Dragway on August 23.
It was another spectacular Winternationals held in perfect South Queensland weather, so here is all the colour, glam, and action from the 2025 edition of the Gulf Western Oil Winternationals at Willowbank Raceway featuring the National Drag Racing Championship.
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