
Crawford shows off new look
Gordon Crawford will have a new look on his Top Bike come next season.

Gordon Crawford will have a new look on his Top Bike come next season.

Debbie O’Rourke has posted some photos of a familiar look for the O’Rourke Motorsport team as they look for a return with a Monaro in Top Doorslammer.

It is just two weeks until Porters Racing are in the USA taking delivery of the first 2013 Ford GT500 Shelby Pro Stock Mustang from Jerry Haas Race Cars in Missouri.

A WA racer is reported to be shipping this USA-based Pro Mod shortly.

With the Mac Tools US Nationals coming up this weekend in Indianapolis, Australia’s own Rapisarda Racing has been out testing with the Tommy Johnson Jr car.

NHRA is this year pushing its “Nitro Generation” marketing, but Australia has its own generations of drag racers whose offspring is following on in their passion for the sport – in this case it’s someone more of the “Methanol Generation”.

Becoming a professional driver of Top Fuel cars in the USA is a dream nearly every drag racer would have. For one Australian that dream has been lived out over two decades.

The Perth Motorplex pit expansion should provide a bunch more room for racers in the west, who had been finding space getting more and more cramped as entries at the venue rose.

Top Alcohol worldwide seems to have a habit of being dominated. In the USA its Frank Manzo who strangles the category with his smarts and driving skills while his Australian equivalent is Gary Phillips, a man with 15 championship titles to his name.
Let’s have a big hand for the advent of small, high definition cameras which have allowed more and more racers to take us inside their worlds. Here’s a sampling of some of the best from the Fuchs Winternationals.
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