The popular Kenda Tires 660 Drag Radial Series has turned into a real radial racing showcase in Australia and each event out does the previous in improvements and innovations as the scene head on a steep upward trajectory. Testimony to this is amount of investment dollars being thrown into the scene to compete by racers right now, with some phenomenal machinery now on track and coming in the future
It has been rough time post-COVID for the return of the Queensland Drag Racing Championship at Willowbank Raceway. Rain has washed out two of the three rounds including the last which barely started eliminations before the dreaded wet stuff fell on the venue.
A Pro Extreme and Pro Stock exhibition featured at Sydney Dragway’s revamped 2021 Atura NSW Championship Series as sportsman racers racked up early points for their respective track championship brackets.
Drag racing has finally returned to the Top End post-COVID after an 18 month break with the running of the first round of the track championship.
Mildura’s Sunset Strip hosted an action packed Easter Supercharged Shootout over the Easter weekend with more than 140 competitors and in excess of 2,000 spectators attending the Sunraysia Drag Racing Association event.
Even though the Kenda Tires 660 Drag Radial Series eventually succumbed to the fickle Sydney weather, it whet our radial tyre taste buds and teased what could have been.
Jet dragsters and the fourth round of the Direct Mining & Industrial Summer Slam Series highlighted the January 23 running of Perth Motorplex’s Night of Fire.
The biggest nitro event in Australia since March took place at Perth Motorplex on January 2 as the Nitro Slam combined the BME WA Nitro Championship, Nitro Bikes and the Summer Slam.
A strong field of local nitro cars took part in the first round of a newly announced three-part series alongside hundreds of WA sportsman racers at Perth Motorplex on December 12.
The second round of the WA Drag Racing Championship took place on November 28, with Daniel Gregorini making an amazing comeback to win round two of the Summer Slam in his Camaro Top Doorslammer.
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