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This Friday and Saturday (January 26 and 27), PremiAir Racing will do all it can to open its 2024 in the best way possible – by taking home event-winning NDRC Christmas Tree trophies –at Sydney Dragway’s Australia Day Nationals.
If you ask Abbey Kay McDonald, there’s no better place than this weekend’s Saltwood @ Rosedale Australia Day Nationals at Sydney Dragway to make her national level drag racing debut amongst an all-star National Drag Racing Championship (NDRC) line-up.
Hydraulink Jim Read Racing is gearing up for an action-packed five months of Top Fuel drag racing all around the country, starting with this weekend’s double-header Australia Day Nationals at Sydney Dragway.
Scratch & Match Motorsport have racked up thousands of miles of travel in advance of the Australia Day Nationals following a rollercoaster Festival State Nationals recently in South Australia.
Sydney Dragway is the place to be to celebrate Australia Day this weekend, headlined by a huge field of eight 11,000hp/500kph Top Fuel Dragsters.
Two championship rounds for eight Top Fuelers; Top Doorslammer, Pro Stock, Pro Stock Motorcycle, Pro Alcohol and FuelTech Pro Mod title fights; plus Aeroflow National Sportsman Championship racing, fireworks and more – this Friday and Saturday’s Saltwood @ Rosedale Australia Day Nationals is set to be unmissable.
Six new ANDRA national records have been recorded between the recent South Coast 660 and Festival State Nationals events, held at South Coast Raceway (January 6-7) and Dragway at The Bend (January 13-14) respectively.
Two-time Top Fuel champ Phil Lamattina is calling out his rivals heading into the NDRC Australia Day Nationals Top Fuel double header at Sydney Dragway (January 26/27) – and none more so than his ex-teammate, Shane Olive.
An already dramatic NDRC Top Doorslammer Championship season became even more so at the weekend’s Festival State Nationals with a controversial A-Final, ensuring high emotions are practically guaranteed amongst the stars of the bracket at next weekend’s Australia Day Nationals in Sydney (January 26/27).
Following an investigation into the Top Doorslammer final at yesterday’s Festival State Nationals at Dragway at The Bend, it has been determined that John Zappia committed a breach of the rules that had been originally flagged by an event official at the time, with a crew person touching the car whilst Zappia was fully staged.
Race fans have delighted in all that the National Drag Racing Championship (NDRC) has to offer with epic performances from Nitro Funny Cars, Top Doorslammers, Top Fuel Motorcycles and the Aeroflow National Sportsman Series ensuring the 20,000+ strong crowd on-track and the many watching live on 7plus were captivated from start to finish.
Five 11,000hp Nitro Funny Cars have ensured their debut at Dragway at The Bend will not soon be forgotten, laying down a number of lightning fast, flame-throwing passes to delight the large and super enthusiastic crowd.
Rachelle Splatt is taking on a new drag racing challenge as she makes a return to drag racing in an all-female collaboration. The formation of the Center Steer Motorsport team will feature Splatt returning to racing in a sportsman role and joined by mother and daughter duo Sarah Roderick and Ashleigh Pinkstone from Roderick Family Racing.
The NDRC Top Doorslammer Championship will feature yet another newcomer this season as the class and new national series continues to create more exposure for racers.
The Australian National Drag Racing Association (ANDRA) is pleased to announce that Patricia (Trish) Crossin AM has been elected as an Independent Director of the ANDRA Board.
After a long hard fought season, the 2023 NSW Track Championship season came to a close late last year with new local sportsman champions crowned.
South Australia’s January is about to get even hotter with the Festival State Nationals to deliver the first ever Nitro Funny Car show at the new venue as well as intense championship racing for Top Doorslammer, Top Fuel Motorcycle, and the Aeroflow National Sportsman Championship Series.
South Coast Raceway delivered the first NDRC Aeroflow Sportsman Championship event of 2024 with the South Coast 660. Check out some of the action courtesy of Automotive Event Images.
After coming oh-so-close at Saturday’s South Coast 660, Matt Forbes is hoping he can take a victory this weekend at the Festival State Nationals and in doing so, become the first in Australia to claim national event wins in five different racing brackets.
The Aeroflow National Sportsman Championship has rung in the new year in style at South Coast Raceway this weekend, with more than 140 competitors taking to the Portland venue for the South Coast 660 – the first NDRC event of 2024.
Sunraysia Drag Racing Association (SDRA) has revealed Mildura’s Sunset Strip will now be known as the Atlantic Oils Sunset Strip for 2024.
Drag racing fanatics don’t have to wait long for the first NDRC event of 2024, with the South Coast 660 taking over South Coast Raceway this Saturday and Sunday (January 6/7) as more than 140 Aeroflow National Sportsman Championship racers do battle for prestigious Christmas Tree trophies and valuable championship points.
The Perth Motorplex, operated by Evolve Facility Management, is pleased to announce the appointment of Ray Treasure as Drag Racing Manager.
It’s busy season at South Coast Raceway in Portland, Victoria with back to back sportsman championship events over the Christmas – New Year period. Take a look back at the first up was the South Coast Nationals gallery before racers return for the NDRC South Coast 660 event in January.
The National Drag Racing Championship has today announced major improvements to the Season One Aeroflow National Sportsman Championship calendar, including an additional dedicated sportsman event in QLD, points boosts for Eastern Conference motorcycle competitors, a Melbourne double header, and a new date for the Sportsman National Grand Final.
South Coast Raceway will ensure 2024 gets off to a brilliant start in a few weeks’ time, with its January 6-7 South Coast 660 event to host a fantastic line-up of Aeroflow National Sportsman Championship racers as part of the National Drag Racing Championship (NDRC).
With a record-setting performance at the Perth Motorplex recently, Morice McMillin raced into the title lead for the National Drag Racing Championship (NDRC)’s Nitro Funny Car title chase. Now the Aeroflow pilot is predicting big things for the next round, to be held at Dragway at The Bend across January 13-14.
The Jamboree doesn’t just showcase Australia’s Sport Compact racing scene but highlights the latest in modern engine technology no matter the configuration. Recently Dragway At The Bend got a taste when the series returned to South Australia for the first time ever.
Round two of the new National Drag Racing Championship saw the debut of the flame-throwing Nitro Funny Cars plus Pro Alcohol, Pro Stock and Pro Mod at the Sydney Nationals for the inaugural series.
At the weekend’s South Coast Nationals at South Coast Raceway, reigning Summit Racing Equipment Sportsman Series Super Stock Australian Champion Adrian Vella not only took out the ANDRA Christmas Tree for SuperComp, but also rewrote both ends of the Super Stock E/GA record.
Hydraulink Jim Read Racing is pleased to announce that highly respected US company Edelbrock, through its Comp Cams brand, will be supporting the team across the remainder of the 2023/2024 NDRC Top Fuel Championship season.
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