The Perth Motorplex 2023 year opened with their Night of Fire spectacular featuring flame throwing Jet Dragsters and the nitro breathing action of the Nitro Max series.
After COVID and weather events repeatedly derailed Street Machine Magazine’s Drag Challenge over recent years, the 2023 edition went into the books with 139 starters taking on 1600kms over 5 days at 3 venues.
The construction of The Bend Dragway is rolling on, the tracks all-concrete racing surface is now being laid, but in this latest video update they take a close look at the billiard table smooth 700m braking area surface and turn-around.
It promises to be the most state of the art dragway in the world. The Bend Dragway located in Murray Bend in South Australia is really starting to take shape.
Finally the Weather Gods allowed South Coast Raceway to slip in an event, and more than 160 racers rocked up for the South Coast 660.
Another hard fought Speed Adict Clothing NSW Championship has been run and won in 2022 at Sydney Dragway.
The West Coast Summer Slam Top Doorslammer series returned to action at Perth Motorplex, with a strong 11 car field chasing points in the local series.
At Midnight Mayhem, quick thinking, quick reactions, and all the right safety gear saved the day when the event of a seemingly normal pass quickly went sideways for Jamie Borg’s RX3 weapon in the braking area.
Midnight Mayhem was a new radial tyre event venture from the Street|20 crew who have been running a series of popular private days at Sydney Dragway for sometime now. The event distinguishes itself from other radial tyre series in that it is contested over the full quarter mile, with the exception of the Outlaw Radial class.
The cool weather is still lingering in the West as Perth Motorplex’s packed drag racing season rolls on with an blown alky packed show for the Blown Alcohol Allstars.
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