
GALLERY – Mighty Car Mods Nationals
On not much more than a weeks notice the Might Car Mods Nationals were conceived and run at Sydney Dragway last weekend in front of a very healthy crowd.
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On not much more than a weeks notice the Might Car Mods Nationals were conceived and run at Sydney Dragway last weekend in front of a very healthy crowd.

Willowbank Raceway will this weekend host not one but three events, with a Friday night test ‘n’ tune (Friday 24 April), the latest round of the JP Racing Eighth Mile Drag Racing Series (Saturday 25 April) and the postponed running of the hotly-anticipated Nostalgia Drags (Sunday 26 April).

The Summit Racing Equipment Sportsman Series recently made a stop over at Willowbank Raceway and produced a superb days racing, which you will be able to read all about in issue #6 of Drag News Magazine – in the meantime check out our gallery courtesy of Blacktrack Photography and Drag Photos.

Craig Glassby, the owner of Australia’s quickest Top Alcohol Funny Car, will have some added support on board when the team heads east for the Winternationals.

Queensland-based racer Paul Messineo will take the wheel of The Bandit rather than his more familiar Dark Horse Mustang as than Aeroflow Outlaw Nitro funny Car show heads north to Mackay’s Palmyra Dragway, May 16.

Inclement weather did not stop racers and the Sydney Dragway A-Team at round two of the Atura Blacktown Championship Series – check out our enormous gallery from the event.

The Perth Motorplex Nostalgias will go down as one of the best old school events yet held in Western Australia with a great turnout of cars and spectators on a brilliant April day.

Rapisarda Autosport International will make Top Fuel history at the Sydney Dragway Nitro champs on May 2-3 when they become the first Australian team to ever field four cars in the elite category.

With 2 wins from the first 2 championship events of the season, Gary Phillips and his Lucas Oils team head to Sydney Dragway on May 2 & 3 for the Nitro Champs, looking to continue the strong form that has seen them catapult to the top of the Top Alcohol championship standings.

Grant O’Rourke will be flying solo for the husband and wife drag racing team O’Rourke Motorsport at the Nitro Champs at Sydney Dragway (May 2-3), with Debbie O’Rourke sidelined due to damage sustained to her Top Alcohol funnycar at last month’s Pro Series 1000.

It’s the car that is creating plenty of buzz in the Top Fuel paddock and for the very first time Mark Sheehan’s brand new Morgan Lucas Racing-built dragster, complete with canopy over the cockpit, will be racing on Australia’s east coast.

Bob Taylor attended the Aeroflow Outlaw Nitro Funny Cars event at Adelaide International Raceway on the Easter weekend and shot this great gallery for us.

Richie Crampton has won his third NHRA national event in Las Vegas.

Local racers have dominated at Willowbank Raceway’s round of the national Summit Racing Equipment Sportsman Series on Saturday 11 April, with all but two of the final contenders hailing from the host state.

Dom Lagana will face off against the highly fancied ex-Pro Stock champ Dave Connolly in first round of racing at the Summit Racing NHRA Nationals after nailing eighth place in qualifying.

It was meant to be just another licensing pass attempt for Vaughan Greentree in the supercharged “Undertaker” Hearse at Sydney Dragway’s Day Of The Drags event – that was before all hell broke loose.

Rapisarda Autosport International and gun racer Dom Lagana have made a superb return to the NHRA Mello Yello Series finishing in eighth spot at the end of day one of qualifying at the SummitRacing.com Nationals at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.

Drag News Australia’s Mark Shields brings you all the updates from race day at the Summit Racing Equipment Sportsman Series at Willowbank Raceway on April 11. Tweets by @ANDRA_NEWS Tweets by @dragnewsaus

As round two of the Atura Blacktown Championship Series approaches this Sunday at Sydney Dragway, we take a look back at all the sights from the round one clash with a mammoth photo gallery.

A huge crowd packed into Adelaide International Raceway for the Saturday night Easter show and eager fans were treated to some of the very best racing ever held at the iconic South Australian venue as a part of the Aeroflow nitro funny car show.
Toward the end of 2014 Davison Family Racing announced their return to ANDRA Championship Drag Racing to contest for the Competition Eliminator title in 2015 as part of the Summit Racing Equipment Sportsman Series.

The WA Grand Final could see several first time track championship winners this Saturday night at Perth Motorplex and hoping to join that lucky group are Modified Bike racer Brett Allen and Junior Dragster driver Connor McClure.

Supercharged Outlaws competitor Jake Donnelly and his DBS Motorsports team are on the verge of some big changes as they ready their 57 Chev for Round 4 of the Summit Racing Equipment Sportsman Series at Willowbank Raceway on Saturday (April 11).

South East Queensland’s sportsman drag racers will have their first shot of national championship glory at Queensland’s premier drag racing facility Willowbank Raceway this weekend (Saturday 11 April) when the Summit Racing Equipment Sportsman Series comes to town.

The WA Grand Final will be the stage for a number of exciting championship scenarios to play out this Saturday at Perth Motorplex.

A new dragster recently had its first hit out in Queensland with a different kind of powerplant behind the driver.

Following confirmation from the Board of ANDRA ltd. the 2015 ANDRA Drag Racing Series Pro Stock Championship will continue as scheduled.
Santo Rapisarda Jr, crew chief for current ANDRA Top Fuel championship leader Damien Harris, says the team chemistry is strong this season as Rapisarda Autosport International chases their first title in 13 years.

Willowbank Raceway does hold many test and tune style events, but their Racer Test Day’s are specifically focused on ANDRA licensed vehicles. Last weekend saw one of these days held in the lead up to the now cancelled Super Extreme 3 event and the upcoming Summit Sportsman Series event.

The opening round of the Atura Blacktown Track Championship Series at Sydney Dragway featured 250 entries and free entry for spectators, however the weather machine dropped consistent drizzle all day long to dampen the mood and try everyone’s patience.
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