
LOCAL HERO READY FOR SOUTH COAST DOUBLE
Shane Baxter is one of more than 165 ANDRA drag racers counting the sleeps to this weekend’s South Coast Nationals – round six of the 2025/2026 ANDRA Regional Sportsman Championship.

Shane Baxter is one of more than 165 ANDRA drag racers counting the sleeps to this weekend’s South Coast Nationals – round six of the 2025/2026 ANDRA Regional Sportsman Championship.

The ANDRA AGM for financial year 2024/2025 was conducted last Friday afternoon (21 November), with a large contingent of members present in person and online.

Daniel ‘Pazzo’ Nunziante is no stranger to Radial and Pro Street records, but his new twin-turbo Fox Body 275 radial Mustang came with its fair share of early curve-balls. Now, with the bugs sorted, Pazzo is back in full swing — and he’s knocking down records, not just Australian records, but World records.

The anticipation is over with one of the wildest machines seen on Australian drag strip is back.

The National Drag Racing Championship (NDRC) has today announced two major additions to the 2026 calendar.

It has been a somewhat tumultuous year for the Queensland Drag Racing Championship. Over half the events to date finished with out much of result due a luckless run with the weather, this weekend (Nov 14) the teams shape up for season’s Grand Final which will be in support of the National Breast Cancer Foundation.

2025 Street Machine Magazine Drag Challenge criss-crossed the southern states once again with record entries fronting up for the epic five day drag racing adventure.

The Sydney Dragway NSW Championship has been powering along, with rounds five and six wrapped up over the past couple of months — now it’s all building toward the big finish, with the penultimate round set to hit the track this weekend.

The 2024/25 NDRC season came to a thunderous close at the Nitro Nationals where Lamattina Top Fuel Racing (LTFR) wrapped up a year of power, passion and promise in front of a packed Sydney Dragway crowd.

In sweltering conditions in front of a huge Sydney Dragway crowd, Hydraulink Jim Read Racing was second quickest in qualifying before going on to win the Nitro Nationals C-Final on Saturday evening (November 8), all while having to basically re-learn their Top Fuel dragster.
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