AEG POWERTOOLS have signed up with the Mildura based Darren Morgan Racing (DMR) Team as the naming rights sponsor for the next two rounds of the Australian Top Fuel Championship. The exciting new partnership will include this weekends ENZED Australian Top Fuel Championships at the Willowbank Raceway and the Nitrochamps at the Western Sydney Dragway later this month.
Former multiple Australian Top Fuel drag race champion, Steve Read, will have a rather unusual lead-up to the Enzed Top Fuel Championship at Willowbank Raceway, Ipswich, April 17-18.
Next weekend’s ENZED Australian Top Fuel Championships will see 56,000 horsepower on-show as seven 8000hp flame-throwing Top Fuel dragsters take to the Willowbank Raceway quarter-mile over April 17 and 18.
Mildura’s Darren Morgan was back in the seat of his Shannon’s Top Fuel Dragster over Easter (Saturday April 3) completing a series of test passes at The Edge Hotel / Motel Easter Shootout at the Sunset Strip in Mildura.
For the first time in nine months the Jason Hedges Racing team will be making the trip north for the April 17th and 18th Top Fuel and Pro Stock event.
Victor Bray, the gourmet tomato grower with a formidable reputation as a drag racer, appears in a insightful interview with Talking Heads Peter Thompson this Monday night on ABC TV at 6:30pm.
John Zappia presented his Zappia Racing team for the local Perth Motorplex event last weekend Nitro Funny Cars, and ran the quickest doorslammer pass in Australian history with a 5.814 in Craig Pedley’s Striker Crusher Monaro.
The Australian National Drag Racing Association (ANDRA) condemned the violent behaviour on the streets of Oakleigh as totally and absolutely unacceptable.A spokesman for ANDRA also said the Victorian Government must bear some responsibility for fuelling the frustration of motor sport fans in this state.
It is mere rumour no more. Sydney Dragway is delighted to announce the overdue return of Drag Racing’s most unpredictable creations – The Australian Nitro Funny Car Gold Cup at the venue on Sunday, July 4!
Stuart Bishop was the fastest Top Doorslammer on the Perth quarter-mile at the weekend, claiming the top speed bonus points for his 247.25 miles per hour run against Robin Judd.
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