
‘THE DON’ LIVES
A spectacular crash at the 2025 Sydney Jamboree hasn’t kept Maatouk Racing’s Factory Xtreme R35 GTR ‘The Don’ on the canvas for long as these rebuild shots show, thanks to ProFab Motorsport Fabrications.
A spectacular crash at the 2025 Sydney Jamboree hasn’t kept Maatouk Racing’s Factory Xtreme R35 GTR ‘The Don’ on the canvas for long as these rebuild shots show, thanks to ProFab Motorsport Fabrications.
Congratulations to all the winners from Round 4 of the Palmyra Drag Racing Club Inc Track Championship over the weekend, the team pushed through some sketchy North Queensland weather to complete the event.
Australian Nitro Funny Car icon Peter Russo – who is based in the US making sporadic appearances in the NHRA – has a new piece of kit, showing off a new body upgrade.
Jeff Cutajar cut his first laps in the original and once world record holding Batmobile Top Doorslammer campaigned by Peter Kapiris. The car now owned by Jason Cunliffe has finally been returned to its former glory and active duty, with a best of 6.17 during testing yesterday that was found out to be run on just 7 cylinders.
‘Aussie Dave’ Grubnic has once again proved he is the speed king tuning Brittany Force to a ground pounding 343.16mph record run just now – that’s 552kph for those playing at home.
The highly anticipated debut of Johnny Ricca’s world record holding Pro Mod Camaro on Aussie soil didn’t disappoint, smashing the quickest ET ever seen out of a door car in Australia during testing at Sydney Dragway.
The owners of Heathcote Park Raceway have released the following statement on the immediate future of the venue.
It still is fastest Pro Stock car in Australia, but the former Dodge Avenger once campaigned by Lee Bektash to the first Pro Stock 200mph pass in Australia has been reborn as Warren Allen’s Outlaw Radial Avenger.
The drag and drive scene is exploding world wide, in Australia, Allstars Drag and Drive is the latest iteration that saw entrants soak up three fantastic days of racing across two tracks carrying, or towing everything they needed from Willowbank Raceway to Warwick Dragway and back again.
While we eagerly wait for the National Drag Racing Championship to resume with s series of events that will cap off the rest of the professional National Championships, we have lock and loaded another bunch of wicked shots from the epic Winternationals.
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