It was a brutal five tracks in five days and over 1500km in between for this year’s Street Machine Drag Challenge. As usual there was a fair bit of drama on and off the track with mechanical mayhem, and unfortunate traffic accidents.

The Aeroflow Outlaw Nitro Funny Car tour has made a stunning debut at Victoria’s Calder Park Raceway with 10 outlaw nitro funny cars putting on a stunning show for the crowd with side-by-side passes throughout the night.

The NHRA Toyota Nationals at Las Vegas has certainly provided some funny car thrills and spills on the weekend – it’s almost like the old days.

It is with great sadness we report the passing of popular Queensland Modified Bike racer Wayne Smith.

Matt Forbes might have found himself out in round of the NHRA Toyota Nationals in Las Vegas but the Victorian sportsman racer is still smiling.

Auzmet Architectural Pro Stock driver Shane Tucker would like nothing more than to play a role in how the championship plays out by taking out some of the top contenders in the class during eliminations tomorrow at Las Vegas.

Rod Bailey’s Chemical Warfare might have missed the quickest Funny Car field in NHRA history but there is no shame for Bailey or driver Anthony Begley who are living the dream in the USA.

Peter Russo and wife Helen have been living out their Nitro Funny Car dreams on US soil for a long time but arguably one of the greatest highlights of their career came early this morning Australian time when the Victorians qualified into the quickest NHRA Nitro Funny Car field in history with a personal best of 4.04/302mph.

Three-time NHRA champ, Larry Dixon,will return to Australia to race for Rapisarda Autosport International at the East Coast Thunder meet at Sydney Dragway on November 4-5.

Two new Modified Eliminator National Records were set at Round 3 of the Summit Racing Equipment Sportsman Series at Mildura Sunset Strip.