Rick Gauci and the Nitro Express ’57 Chev Aeroflow Outlaw Nitro Funnycar won another Rocket Trophy after a dominant performance at Springmount Raceway last night. Eleven AONFC teams rocked into Springmount to put on a show in front of another huge Far North Queensland crowd at one Australia’s newest Drag Racing facilities.
The battle for the 13B record, which has developed into one of Australian drag racing’s hottest rivalries right now, has seen another turn as Pac Performance took back the title from Steven Barnett on Sunday at the Brisbane Jamboree.
Steven Barnett’s Jamboree campaign did not start off the way he would have liked after putting his Mazda 6 into the wall on the first day of testing, but his fortunes have turned around big time.
Joe Gauci has made his first test hits, dialing in his spectacular new purpose built radial Mustang ahead of Radial Riot.
Another turbocharged Pro Mod is heading for Australian shores, with the ex-Jose Gonzalez ‘Eleanor’ Shelby GT500 Ford Mustang on its way for the world’s fastest DJ, Carl Cox.
A refreshed Pro Slammer is set to hit the track soon with Queensland’s Rob Harrington showing off his ‘Bad Influence II’ Holden Monaro for the first time.
The Nissan R35 GTR has a reputation for being one of the fiercest production cars available, and the four wheel drive, six cylinder-powered beasts have been a common sight at drag racing events around the country – with the Australian record for the brand recently being reset.
John Zappia went back to his match racing roots on a tour of central and northern Australia over the past few weeks in the Fuchs Monaro.
Crashes are part and parcel of all motorsports, including drag racing, but this wall-slap from Danny Makdessi’s gorgeous four-door Valiant was one of the stranger ones we have seen recently.
As the radial tyre movement grows, we are seeing more and more purpose built radial race cars arriving at tracks, like this Mustang stunner out of Profab.
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