
Hort to make Monaro move
West Australian drag racer Ethan Hort is looking forward to some quicker times this season when he gets into the seat of his father Kevin’s Holden Monaro for the coming Perth Motorplex track championship season.
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West Australian drag racer Ethan Hort is looking forward to some quicker times this season when he gets into the seat of his father Kevin’s Holden Monaro for the coming Perth Motorplex track championship season.
Domenic Luppino officially became Australia’s fastest radial racer during Saturday’s APSA Pro Street Shootout event at Willowbank Raceway.
Georgia McSweeney wants to make the most of the coming WA track championship season in Super Street with an aim to be at the top of the championship standings.
Following the highly successful opening to the 2015/2016 ANDRA Championship season in Darwin and Alice Springs, the ANDRA Drag Racing Series and the Summit Racing Equipment Sportsman Series will continue as the prestigious two tier national championship, sanctioned and supported by ANDRA.
The 2015 JP Racing Eighth Mile Drag Racing Series was finalised at Benaraby Raceway with the completion of round four of the series.
The APSA Pro Street Shootout at Willowbank Raceway this Saturday (3 October) is set to settle the score in some tense on-track rivalries, with a special buy-in grudge match set to pit the heavy-hitters against each other in a race for big cash prizes.
The return of one of Sydney Dragway’s foundation events, the East Coast Nationals, has been confirmed as a part of the newly formed Australian Professional Drag Racing Series and will not only see more than 300 competitors on the track, it will also feature a massive array of family entertainment for the iconic western-Sydney venue.
Hidden Valley Dragway has held the final round of its track championship before the wet stuff moves in over Summer – here are the final winner of their 2015 season.
Queensland’s premier drag racing facility, Willowbank Raceway, has celebrated a historic milestone on September 28, with three decades having passed since its first race meeting.
Marty Dack has unveiled his killer looking new Mustang Top Doorslammer to Drag News.
Drag News Magazine editor Luke Nieuwhof is on expedition in the USA at the moment and managed to drop in to one of the world’s biggest small tyre races – No Mercy VI at South Georgia Motorsports Park.
Pro Stock Motorcycle racer Scott White is turning to crowd funding to try and find the resources to travel to the East Coast Nationals at Sydney Dragway in November.
The new series will kick into full gear at the East Coast Nationals, held at Sydney Dragway 7-8 November, and reach its climax at the largest drag racing event outside of the United States each year, the 48th annual Fuchs Winternationals, at Willowbank Raceway from 9-12 June.
After 15 long years the Dubbo City Council has finally sold the land required to build a dragstrip in rural Western NSW to the Dubbo City Car Club.
The world’s fastest sport compact cars are set to return to Victoria for the first time in more than seven years, as Melbourne Jamboree hits Calder Park, October 24th, 2015.
The Aftermarket Industries FS400 & FS1200 single, twin and triple billet fuel pump hangers are superior in design, engineering and construction to anything else available on the market.
The Paul Mouhayet driven Moits Racing turbo Mustang has again decimated his own Australian turbo record on the weekend with a 5.75 at 261mph blast – then the real fun began.
Drag News gallery featuring all the action from round seven of the Atura Championship Series at Sydney Dragway.
Chris Stevermuer’s attempt at reaching a low orbit during the wheelstand competition at Supernats was one of the highlights of the event – and it seemed like a good idea at the time.
Victorian Supercharged Outlaws and Modified racer Michael Braggs has a new altered in the build to debut this season.
Kallangur’s David Gauldie has taken victory in the Super Gas category of the weekend’s round of the Queensland Drag Racing Championships (QDRC) at Willowbank Raceway, despite battling a bad case of the flu.
The debut of the JSS Racing/Megatilt Top Doorslammer driven by Sam Fenech was a rough one at Supernats on the weekend with the stunning Camaro finishing on its lid.
It was the first time the Aeroflow Outlaw Nitro Funny Cars ventured to Willowbank Raceway with their extravaganza, and Drag News takes another look back at the spectacle with some cool video highlights and an awesome gallery.
The Board of the Australian National Drag Racing Association (ANDRA) has announced Rob Curkpatrick as interim CEO.
There was only a short two week turn around to round seven of the Atura Track Championship Series at Sydney Dragway, but racers were on their game ready to go again on what was another perfect day for racing. The day’s highlight was Paul Mouhayet’s record setting turbo run, the low light was a violent crash for Jeff Wilson’s in his Top Doorslammer.
When there is 8,000 horsepower of nitro aggression to control in a supercharged Top Fuel dragster race engine to control, things are far from an exact science.
Many doubted it would happen, and yes it took a lot longer than expected – and it is not finished yet – but drag racing has returned to Calder Park. The weather gods were in favour of racing back at the iconic venue turning on a spectacular day for a test and tune shakedown last Sunday.
South Queensland’s Warwick Dragway recently held one of the venue’s marquee events in the 6 Banger Nats which attracts six cylinder enthusiasts up and down the East Coast – here are the final round results plus a gallery by Drag Photos of all the action.
The Top Alcohol Funny Car world record war might not be over yet with WA racer Craig Glassby lightening his ride considerably with a new 2015 Camaro body.
Drag racing’s diverse faces are revealed in this issue of Drag News Magazine.
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