
RESULTS – Sydney’s 2016 Atura Blacktown Track Championship round 3
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.
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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.

The ANDRA Championship Grand Final saw four new National Records set, one over 1000 feet and three over the quarter mile.

Drag racing can provide its competitors with inspiration to get through different parts of their life and issue 15 of Drag News Magazine uses that as a theme for a personal and thoughtful read. We open with an honest interview with retiring Top Fuel Motorcycle rider Phil Parker, who tells us about his battle with cancer, how drag racing gave him a life worth living and what his plans are beyond the quarter mile. Peter Peirano is one of the most colourful characters in the pit area of any drag racing event but under that bright exterior he has faced his own personal challenges. We find out how drag racing provided a light at the end of the tunnel for the nitro funny car team owner. Shane Wynd is one of Australia’s top bracket racers and he tells us how a quick decision to travel to the USA was just what he needed. Plus event coverage from Lights Out at Willowbank Raceway and Sydney Dragway, an up close look at Jeff Lutz’s awesome Evil Twin 57 Chev including a pull out poster, a double dose of nitro from Perth Motorplex, sportsman action from Whyalla, Top Doorslammers from Calder Park and more. Click here to order issue 15 of Drag News Magazine.

The ANDRA Drag racing Series came to a close last weekend with final rounds for Top Fuel Motorcycle, Top Doorslammer and Top Alcohol.

Watch the ANDRA Championship Grand Final Live Stream here from 9am ACST – Sunday April 10.

John Zappia is a nine-time ANDRA Top Doorslammer champion following the completion of qualifying for the ANDRA Championship Grand Final in front of a huge 9000 strong crowd at Adelaide International Raceway.

Swan Hill Dragway, Australia’s newest quarter mile drag strip has announced today the facility will be ANDRA sanctioned.

Willowbank Raceway hosted the first stand alone round of the 400 Thunder Sportsman Series with around 120 racers taking to the track for points as the inaugural season head towards finality.

With Mount Emerald as its backdrop, Springmount Raceway in Far North Queensland felt the rumble and thunder from the Aeroflow Outlaw Nitro Funny Cars for the first time recently at their Grand Opening event.
When O’Rourke Motorsport’s Grant O’Rourke heads to Adelaide International Raceway this weekend for the ANDRA Grand Final, he will have one last try to snatch the Top Doorslammer title away from reigning and eight-time champ John Zappia.
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