
Vale Brian Keegan
Drag racing lost another legend last week with the passing of Brian Keegan.

Drag racing lost another legend last week with the passing of Brian Keegan.

An incredible day of NHRA racing in Brainerd, Minnesota saw Australians Richie Crampton and Wayne Newby both competing in Top Fuel. Read on to find out about how they went.

For the first time ever, Australia’s quickest street cars are coming to Perth for the inaugural Australian Pro Street Association (APSA) round at Perth Motorplex on 31 October 2015.

Reigning NHRA Rookie of the Year Richie Crampton added an important accolade to his three-win sophomore season with a top-qualifier effort at his title sponsor’s main event, the 34th annual Lucas Oil Nationals at Brainerd International Raceway.

Great news is that Mark Hinchelwood has returned home from hospital to begin a long recovery from injuries sustained in a testing accident just over a week ago. Mark has made a candid and brutally honest statement about the incident and his actions in hope others will learn from what happened.

The Aeroflow Outlaw Nitro Funny Car show is heading to the one of Australia’s premier drag racing facilities, the Perth Motorplex, with a huge field of funny cars primed to entertain the West Australian fans.

This Saturday (22 August) the latest round of the Queensland Drag Racing Championships will hit Willowbank Raceway, hosting more than 100 local heroes of all ages.

Darwin’s NT Titles has seen O’Rourke Motorsport’s Grant O’Rourke retain his second place standing in the Top Doorslammer championship, courtesy of a Top Qualifying result and a semi-finals appearance.
Okay the Nostalgia racing scene in Australia is not quite the same as seen at places like Bakersfield, but we do alright for what we have and recently at Sydney’s Cruzin’ Magazine Nostalgia Drags event the revival of the fuel altered certainly has plenty on nostalgia buffs salivating.
The day unfortunately ended prematurely with the Mark Hinchelwood incident and we wish Mark our best wishes again in his recovery, but before that moment the Nostalgia Drags was delivering big on on old school action as captured in this mammoth gallery.
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