The Burson Auto Parts Australian Top Fuel Championship and the ANDRA Grand Finals combined for one of Australian drag racing’s strongest events in recent memory at Perth Motorplex.
Once again weather played havoc for the start of day two of the Gulf Western Oil Super Thunder event, and continued off and on for the rest of the afternoon, before the skies cleared and a full action-packed schedule of racing followed.
The first season of the new Australian Drag Racing Championship has come to a crowd-pleasing conclusion at the Perth Motorplex, with Daniel Gregorini and Greg Durack claiming the Top Doorslammer and Top Fuel Motorcycle Championships respectively.
There was no shortage of wide grins at the Perth Motorplex on Saturday evening with the champions of the 2021/2022 Summit Racing Equipment Sportsman Series crowned after two big days of racing for the EGT ANDRA Grand Finals.
The spectators were eager, and the racers were ready to put on a show for day one of the Gulf Western Oil Super Thunder, but the weather had another plan, delaying the start to Friday’s racing.
Following the intervention of Mother Nature this evening at the Perth Motorplex, the final day of the 2021/2022 ANDRA Drag Racing Season will be bursting at the seams.
The long-awaited return of championship Top Fuel drag racing to Perth Motorplex was finally realised on Friday night as six drivers made qualifying runs before rain cut short an exciting evening.
A testing prelude to Gulf Western Oils Super Thunder at Willowbank Raceway took place on Thursday night as teams got an early look at the track.
With no more COVID interruptions the boys at Street Machine finally got back on the road with a Drag Challenge event in Victoria. The Street Machine Drag Challenge Weekend takes in Heathcote Park Raceway twice and Mildura’s Sunset Strip over 3 days of hectic travel for racers.
Willowbank pulled off a event double header last weekend with round two of the Queensland Drag Racing Championships, and the first round of a three round Eighth Mile Championship Series being run as a tribute to the late John ‘Stomper’ Winterburn.
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