Turbos be gone. Jeremy Callaghan has ditched the twin turbo combo in favour of a blower bolted to a new Noonan bullet in his Camaro. Look out Top Doorslammer.
XPRO Nitro Funny Cars will welcome a fresh new face next weekend, with third-gen racer Josh Leahy to join the nitro party at Sydney Dragway for what is shaping up as Australia’s largest nitro-fuelled drag racing event: the Gulf Western Oil Nitro Champs.
Peter Xiberras’ Supercars team might be competing on the other side of the country during the Gulf Western Oil Nitro Champs, but with two Top Fuel championship rounds to be held in two days at the Sydney Dragway event, there was never any question about where the two-time Top Fuel champion would be across May 17-19.
NDRC lead commentator Wade Aunger has released this fantastic insightful interview with Maurice Fabietti, owner of the AC Delco Slammer Drag Racing team and his driver Ronnie Palumbo about just what it takes to manhandle a Top Doorslammer on a quarter mile blast, not just physically, but mentally.
With three finals appearances in the last 12 months but no wins, NDRC Pro Stock championship contender Rick Chilton is hopeful he can shed the bridesmaid tag and race through to a Gold Christmas Tree at Sydney Dragway’s Gulf Western Oil Nitro Champs.
Australia’s biggest nitro-fuelled event will deliver a show “well worth the wait” when the Gulf Western Oil Nitro Champs is held across new dates of May 17-19.
At next weekend’s Gulf Western Oil Nitro Champs – shaping up to be one of the biggest nitro-fuelled drag racing events in Australia across May 3-5 – two rounds of Top Fuel, the XPRO Nitro Funny Cars, Top Doorslammers, Pro Stock and FuelTech Pro Mod will be joined by two championship rounds for the Aeroflow National Sportsman Championship.
Mildura comes alive with horsepower every Easter when multiple motorsports take over the regional Victorian city for the Easter Powersports Festival, and drag racing features with Atlantic Oils Sunset Strip hosting their premier event of the year, the Atlantic Oils Easter Supercharged Shootout.
Self-dubbed as the ‘Rapa-Slayer,’ two-time champ Phil Lamattina is heading into the upcoming Top Fuel double header at the Gulf Western Oil Nitro Champs with plenty of swagger and some healthy confidence as he looks to continue his recent event-winning momentum.
In the penultimate round of Perth Motorplex’s local nitro series, Nitro Max, there was some international influence with NHRA star Tommy Johnson Jr in the house running the Speed Torque funny car, the event also hosted the final round of the local Top Doorslammer and Top Fuel Motorcycle Summer Slam Series.
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