
2016/2017 ANDRA Championship Season to commence with central swing
The ANDRA Championship Drag Racing season will once again explode into action at Darwin’s Hidden Valley Drag Strip on the weekend of 8-9 July 2016.
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The ANDRA Championship Drag Racing season will once again explode into action at Darwin’s Hidden Valley Drag Strip on the weekend of 8-9 July 2016.
Three-times consecutive Super Stock Champion (2008-2010) Nino Cavallo has added an ANDRA Drag Racing Series Pro Stock Championship to his resume following his hometown triumph at the Australian Nationals in January.
Hidden Valley Drag Racing Association have announced that the Department of Infrastructure (DOI) have commenced the track rectification works on Hidden Valley Drag Strip.
The Aeroflow Outlaw Nitro Funny Car teams put on a massive show for the huge crowd at Queensland’s Willowbank Raceway and the event left the spectators on the edge of their seats until the very end of the night!
Aaron Lynch made a big impression on the pro levels of drag racing through the mid 2000s, running a Top Doorslammer, a Top Alcohol Funny Car and a Top Fuel dragster. But all did not go to plan in the opening qualifying session for the 2006 Goldenstates at Perth Motorplex.
Former national Top Fuel champion Martin Stamatis will make a return to racing at the Nitro Champs event in May at Sydney Dragway.
Up until the 2014 Desert Nationals, Bryan Finn had mostly competed on Divisional Day licences regionally. In 2015/2016 he is the Summit Racing Equipment Sportsman Series Modified Bike Champion.
Already a three-time consecutive Super Sedan Champ, John Kapiris went into the ANDRA Championship Grand Final in Adelaide aiming to make Super Sedan history.
The Aeroflow Outlaw Nitro Funny Car show has rolled into Queensland and whilst the teams are set to take on not only each other this weekend, they are chomping at the bit to let the 4000hp flame throwing beasts loose on the superb Willowbank Raceway track surface.
The Atura Championship Series for the Sydney Dragway Track Championship rolled on with round three as contenders for this year’s title start to immerge.
Drag News Magazine has been given a sneak peek at Geoff Blake’s new Top Alcohol set up for his front engine dragster. All things going to plan the car will debut at the Nitro Champs.
Round two of the 2016 JP Racing Eighth Mile Drag Racing Series is done and dusted. The series moved to Benaraby Raceway last weekend with a 137 racers in attendance and perfect conditions for racing.
Grant O’Rourke made sure he rounded out the 2015/2016 ANDRA Top Doorslammer Championship season out with a bang, taking victory in the ANDRA Grand Final event at Adelaide International Raceway.
The coolest show in all of drag racing will once again be at Willowbank Raceway on the 30th of April as the Aeroflow Outlaw Nitro Funny Cars hit down featuring a massive field of 14 nitro cars as well as the Nitro Sheriff and the Rocket Ship wheelstanders.
Drag racing is one of the few motorsports to be conducted over a standard distance, which makes national records a motivational goal for participants. West Australian racer Alistair McClure is one such competitor inspired to collect records, with his current quest to obtain as many of the “BB” records available as possible – BB/Altered, BB/Funny Car and BB/Dragster.
WA’s Troy Thompson says progress on his turbocharged Suzuki Hayabusa Modified Bike has been far quicker than expected since hitting the track earlier this season.
Better late than never! Our intrepid Drag News editor is back from a journey of self discovery and has finally got around to uploading his photos from the Maximum Thrust Grand Final at Perth Motorplex on April 9.
Sydney’s Peter Xiberras is preparing to take the PremiAir Top Fuel dragster all the way at the Nitro Champs Nitro Champs at Sydney Dragway on the 7th and 8th May.
Mackay’s Damian Muscat might be one the newest additions to the Top Bike paddock but the Queenslander plans on making the trip to Sydney worthwhile, with the Nitro Phoenix crew looking for improvement at Sydney Dragway’s Nitro Champs event on the 7th and 8th May.
Paul Pires didn’t expect to become 2015/2016 Summit Racing Equipment Sportsman Series Competition Bike Champion, but there he is, humble in success.
Michael Naylor is the latest Summit Racing Equipment Junior Dragster Champion following his runner up to former Junior champ and brother Brayden Naylor at the ANDRA Championship Grand Final.
Last week at the ANDRA Championship Grand Final, Top Fuel Motorcycle featured one of the more intriguing tales with three of the best riders on three of the baddest bikes squaring off for glory.
Darren Morgan and his team joined Wayne Newby driving for Rapisarda International last weekend at Adelaide International Raceway where they match raced at the ANDRA Championship Grand Final.
It was a weekend of mixed emotions for Matt Lisle at the ANDRA Championship Grand Final in Adelaide last weekend.
John Cannuli achieved a life long dream by winning the 2015/2016 ANDRA Drag Racing Series Top Alcohol Championship.
If you love insanely fast sedans, Sydney Dragway has some of the best in the country racing this weekend at the Atura Championship Series on Saturday April 16.
The 50th anniversary for Surfers Raceway and the US Dragfest turned into a nostalgic talkfest as hundreds attended celebrations on April 10 at the site formerly occupied by the Gold Coast race track.
The Sydney Dragway team has promised to deliver one of the best race surfaces ever as the track crew look to provide the best chance for the 400 Thunder racers to smash national records at the Nitro Champs on May 7 and 8.
The craziest sedans in all of drag racing hammered the Sydney Dragway blacktop once again at the Australian Pro Street Association (APSA) Shootout in a spectacular display that only Pro Street racing delivers.
This past weekend Jason Stares became the new Summit Racing Equipment Sportsman Series Top Sportsman Champion and winning the ANDRA Championship Grand Final.
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