Our first in a series on Nitro Thunder galleries, the first by the man always in the right spot, Drag News Magazine’s gun Joe Maday.
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.
After the first planned round for the Atura NSW Championship post-COVID was cancelled due to weather, the series finally kicked off in front of a big crowd with the addition of the Aeroflow Outlaw Nitro Funny Car show.
The Aeroflow Outlaw Nitro Funny Cars made a long awaited return to competition at Sydney Dragway on March 27, with elapsed times and speeds that could only be described as phenomenal.
The Day of the Drags event at Sydney Dragway has been cursed by weather more often than not, but some how dodged Sydney’s many wet weather events this year to put on a great day of old school action.
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.
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