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.
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.
The NSW Championship Series rolls on with round two, and while it is still early days in the season some championship contenders are already emerging.
The Riverbend Nationals was truly a ground-breaking event at Dragway at The Bend at the weekend (April 5-7), bringing no end of incredible racing from the entire line-up.
A new quickest and fastest Top Fuel ET and MPH record for Australia and outside the US and the fourth Top Fuel winner from as many events were the order of the day for the third and final day of the Riverbend Nationals as part of the National Drag Racing Championship (NDRC) at Dragway at the Bend this weekend.
Day two of the Riverbend Nationals has seen Top Fuel headline an action-packed program for a bumper crowd at Dragway at The Bend today with plenty more action to come for race day tomorrow.
The performances of day one of the Riverbend Nationals have forecast a huge weekend of racing ahead at Dragway at The Bend, with qualifying for the Aeroflow National Sportsman Championship – hosting its Western Conference final this weekend – and some impressive testing runs from Top Fuel, Top Doorslammer, Pro Stock and Pro Stock Motorcycle competitors well and truly whetting the appetite of race fans today.
The tough as nails NSW Championship Series has launched for 2024 with a strong roll up of racers for round one. Despite some rain slowing things up, the event was finished on time with racers fighting to take early points to begin their track championship campaigns.
The inaugural Dragway At The Bend track championship continues to roll on with round three completed recently. It was another fine day of racing so check out the results and gallery of all the action here.
Warwick Dragway launched their quarter mile drag racing scene in spectacular style over the weekend, the Aeroflow Outlaw Nitro Funny Cars delivered a fantastic show as they always do alongside an army of other eager racers keen to test the brand new racing surface.
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