Rapisarda Autosport International will field an unchanged line up at the opening round of the 400 Thunder season at Sydney Dragway, November 1-2.

For Atlantic Oils, the naming rights sponsor for this weekend’s East Coast Thunder at Sydney Dragway, all signs are pointing towards a stellar event for the first-time event sponsor.

There’s new cars breaking cover left, right and centre in Western Australia right now as their drag racing season gets warmed up, and the latest is Connor Begley’s tough radial tyre Holden one tonner.

Former Top Fuel champion Phil Lamattina has returned to the driver’s seat for the first time since 2015 in the Carrot Kings dragster.

Emilio Spinozzi has been making more test runs than almost anyone else in the Pro Slammer field ahead of he and brother Adamo’s sophomore season in the 400 Thunder Professional Drag Racing Series, which begins on November 1 and 2 at Sydney Dragway’s East Coast Thunder event.

Australia has never seen an event like the Aeroflow World Fuel Altered Challenge. In this special issue of Drag News Magazine we speak with the brave drivers behind drag racing’s wildest machines – the AA/FAs! Ron Hope, Randy Bradford and Brian Hope discuss their Australian journey and just what makes cars like Rat Trap and Pure Hell so amazing to fans.

Western Australian Super Sedan racer Andy Kahle is building a radical new drag car with a great cause in mind.