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The final round of the 2023 Kenda 660 Tires Drag Radial Series headed to North Queensland with Willowbank Raceway out of action, along with a whole bunch of radial tyre warriors to fight out the final round of the championship.
The return of championship drag racing to South Australia through the National Drag Racing Championship and Dragway At The Bend is rejuvenating the sport, and former racers. For South Aussie John Bader it has been ten years between skids, and he is now revved up to let the horsepower rip once again.
Two huge drag racing events for the new National Drag Racing Championship (NDRC) are just around the corner – this weekend’s Spring Nationals at the brand-new Dragway at The Bend (October 21/22), and next weekend’s Sydney Nationals at Sydney Dragway (October 27/28).
The upgrades to Willowbank Raceway continue at a steady pace, with the major component in pouring the concrete portion of the racing surface now complete and into its 28 day curing phase.
The opening round of the Australian Top Doorslammer Championship (ATDC) will take place this weekend at the Spring Nationals, the first major event at the brand new Dragway at The Bend.
As Lamattina Top Fuel Racing charge into the 2023 Australian Top Fuel Championship, the team will do it with the ongoing support of R&J Batteries.
A last ditch thrash will see Rob Taylor’s first appearance at race track since his devastating Winternationals fire a couple years ago, and it will be with his absolutely stunning C7 Corvette doorslammer.
SPEEDFLOW’s 40th Anniversary celebrations continue with the announcement that they will join the all-new National Drag Racing Championship (NDRC) as a Broadcast Partner for the 2023/2024 season.
Western Australian Ryan Learmonth could not turn down the opportunity to return to the state where his Pro Stock Motorcycle career began, albeit being a different venue as the brand new Dragway At The Bend takes over as the home of professional drag racing in South Australia.
Father and son Ray and Mitch Oxley are ready to mount their Spring Nationals Summit Racing Equipment Sportsman Series campaign at the brand-new Dragway at The Bend this weekend (October 21 and 22).
Statement from The Shell V-Power Motorsport Park at The Bend;
“Dragway at The Bend General Manager Steve Bettes has tendered his resignation effective from December 11. Steve has been instrumental in opening this new venue and will expertly deliver the Grand Opening Spring Nationals this weekend before departing late this year.
The off-season is normally a time for refreshing a combination or adding some new parts, but for Daniel and Lisa Gregorini’s Scratch & Match Motorsport Top Doorslammer team it has been an epic effort to be ready in time for a brand new series.
As part of Dragway at The Bend’s grand opening Spring Nationals this weekend (October 21-22), the opening rounds of the 2023/2024 Top Fuel Motorcycle and Pro Stock Motorcycle Championships will launch into action.
As the new 2023/2024 Australian Top Fuel Championship season gets ready to kick off this weekend, Hydraulink Jim Read Racing is pulling out all the stops for their latest championship challenge with the support of a full suite of returning sponsors.
The Nitro Voodoo Top Fuel Motorcycle team have dominated the class for over a decade, but despite Chris Matheson’s retirement as a rider the team are still preparing for a full-on assault of the inaugural NDRC Top Fuel Motorcycle championship.
At a brand-new track, PremiAir Racing will launch a brand-new attack on the Australian Top Fuel Championship this weekend.
With the new championship season nigh, Victorian Pro Stock Motorcycle racer Glenn Wooster has unveiled his look for the new season as the White Line Fever Drag Racing team prepare to hunt for another championship.
West Australian second year Top Fuel Drag Racer Kyle Putland sports a smile as bright as the yellow crew shirts his team wear on the start line and that cheeky grin will be back big time on Saturday and Sunday October 21 and 22.
The 2023 NSW Championship Series at Sydney Dragway is heading towards its conclusion with now six rounds in the books.
The opening event at the country’s newest track will bring to a close the 26 year career of former Taswegian, now Victorian Mod Bike racer Shane Walker, and he has to borrow a bike to do it.
The largest entry list in South Australian Drag Racing history has been published ahead of the Dragway at The Bend Grand Opening Spring Nationals to be held next weekend on October 21-22.
Street Machine’s Drag Challenge has kicked off and christened Dragway At The Bend as the first event to host drag cars at the brand new facility.
After a successful first championship in 2022, the Aeroflow Performance Products Funny Car Team haven’t been resting on their laurels. With new upgrades on some cars and a completely new car on deck, the team are ready to chase the points and the wins with the newly formed NDRC Nitro Funny Car Championship.
Lamattina Top Fuel Racing will take a new structure, cutting-edge componentry and be competing at a brand-new race track for the upcoming season, but they the Top Fuel team will be supported by the longest partnership in Australian professional drag racing, FUCHS Lubricants.
Dragway at The Bend’s grand opening Spring Nationals will host the opening round of the 2023/2024 NDRC Australian Top Fuel Championship, alongside plenty of other great racing from the NDRC championship openers for Top Doorslammer, Top Fuel Motorcycle, and Pro Stock Motorcycle.
Queenslander Patrick Barron went all the way to the Super Sedan final at Benaraby Dragway at the weekend in what was the latest round for the NDRC’s Aeroflow National Sportsman Championship.
The latest round of the Aeroflow National Sportsman Championship has been run and won at Queensland’s Benaraby Dragway, with a huge day and night of racing action delivering racers with valuable Eastern Conference points while the Aeroflow Wheelstanders entertained alongside them.
Veteran U.S. Funny Car racer Tommy Johnson Jr. will return to Australia piloting a championship-winning hot rod with his eyes on the prize at Sydney Dragway for Round 1 of the NDRC Nitro Funny Car championship (Sydney Nationals, October 27-28).
It was a big night of racing in front of a cracking crowd that filled Palmyra Dragway for the return of the Aeroflow Outlaw Nitro Funny Car show at Nitro In The Cane
The upgrades to the Willowbank Raceway venue continue to advance in timely manner with the pouring of the new concrete racing surface.
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