In the Australian Drag Racing Championship classes, Daniel Gregorini heads the Top Doorslammer field and a returning Jay Upton leads Top Bike at a drama filled day one of the 51st MacTrack Westernats at the Perth Motorplex.
Kyle Putland’s quest to drive drag racing’s quickest vehicles has officially begun, with the Worx Equipment Top Fuel dragster having made its first runs and is now preparing for the Westernationals this weekend at Perth Motorplex.
This weekend’s 51st MacTrack Westernationals at the Perth Motorplex will host intense competition for not one, but two Top Doorslammer championships.
At last year’s Westernationals at the Perth Motorplex, local Top Doorslammer racer Steve Aldridge went all the way to the finals in his Crown Security Plymouth Cuda.
Mildura’s Sunraysia Drag Racing Club has pulled off the biggest coup in drag racing, securing a round of the Burson Auto Parts Australian Top Fuel Championship for the Sunset Strip facility. The event, which takes place March 12 and 13, is the first Top Fuel championship round to be held in Victoria in a decade and sees all active teams and six Top Fuel cars heading to Mildura to race in their 10,000hp rocket ships.
The first eighth-mile event in the history of Top Fuel Championship racing will take place at Mildura’s Sunset Strip on March 12 and 13, with teams preparing for the unique challenge of the shorter distance.
The brand maybe extinct in production circles, but the Holden name will live on for a long time yet in drag racing with event like the Tuff Mounts Holden Drag Nationals at Heathcote Park Raceway.
The Perth Motorplex is set to fire up with unmissable nitro action this Saturday and Sunday with the 2022 MacTrack Westernationals.
Steel City Raceway has had a rough time of it in recent times, if COVID lockdowns didn’t cause enough disruptions, multiple flooding put strains on the only currently active South Australian drag strip.
Roger Moorhouse will have the opportunity to secure a Westernats hat trick this weekend when the 2022 MacTrack Westernationals event hits the Perth Motorplex across March 5-6
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