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With the opening events from the newly renamed ‘Dragway At The Bend’ drawing closer, the venue contraction is racing towards completion. Here are the latest video updates of the progress.
A look back the 55th Gulf Western Oil Winternationals at Willowbank Raceway. The event marked the ending of the 400 Thunder championship era as the sport transitions into the National Drag Racing Championship for the new season.
The first ANDRA Christmas Tree trophies of the new season have been held aloft at the Hidden Valley Drag Strip, following the conclusion of the Top End Nationals on Saturday evening (15 July).
The first Summit Racing Equipment Sportsman Series event of the new season enjoyed a successful opening day at the Hidden Valley Drag Strip on Friday (14 July), with the qualifying and racing action set to continue today (Saturday 15 July).
Aidan Abel has a long history in the Summit Racing Equipment Sportsman Series, racing in the Summit Racing Equipment Junior Dragster bracket for eight years from the age of eight to 16.
Andrew Zada in the ‘Boogeyman’ Procharged Outlaw Radial Camaro has bested his own Australian radial record not one, but twice last weekend at the Street|20 private day.
In light of recent announcements within the Australian drag racing industry, ANDRA would like to advise that it currently has no intention to impose performance limits on Top Doorslammer and similar type vehicles.
In Darwin in June, Damien Harris and the Rapisarda Autosport International team were awarded the prestigious Stan Sainty Cup as the winners of the 2022/2023 Burson Auto Parts Australian Top Fuel Championship.
Rob Cassar locked down his maiden ADRC Top Fuel Motorcycle Championship at the Hidden Valley Drag Strip in June, taking out the title over runner-up, Benny Stevens.
Brodie Zappia is working hard in the off season on his 1997 Bickel built Chevrolet Camaro – 572ci big block Chev, as he is heading into the racing category of Supercharged Outlaws this year.
Peter Cates will be making his national-level racing debut at the back-to-back Summit Racing Equipment Sportsman Series events at the Hidden Valley Drag Strip (Top End Nats – 14/15 July) and Alice Springs Inland Dragway (July 22/23) this month, campaigning a race car that is the only one of its kind in Australia and one of only 50 in the world.
John Willard and Paul Stephen have continued their supercharged UK campaign competing at Santa Pod Raceway’s SummerNationals on the weekend
The 2023/2024 Aeroflow Sportsman Championship calendar revealed
The National Drag Racing Championship has today unveiled the calendar for the Aeroflow Sportsman Championship.
The final round of the 400 Thunder Aeroflow Drag Racing Series had extra prestige for event and championship winners, as it would be the last of its name with the new National Drag Racing Series taking over from next season.
Summit Racing Equipment and the Australian National Drag Racing Association are pleased to announce increased contingency payouts.
John Willard’s ‘Aussie Outlaw’ has hit the Santa Pod dragstrip for the first time, and has already caused a sensation in the UK by smashing Outlaw Anglia records.
The Australian National Drag Racing Association is pleased to announce Tim McAvaney as its new Chief Executive Officer, commencing in the role from the 3rd of July, based in the Royston Park office in Adelaide.
Australian Top Doorslammer Champion Kelvin Lyle is a lucky man.
The 2022/23 Australian Top Doorslammer Championship will long be remembered as one of extreme highs and the lowest of lows. For John Zappia, that pattern firmly applied to Nitro Up North at Darwin’s Hidden Valley Drag Strip.
Atlantic Oils/Rapisarda Autosport International veteran Damien Harris has won this third Australian Top Fuel championship for the team after a dramatic final round in Darwin.
After being postponed earlier this year, the Day of The Drags is set down for this weekend, June 24 at Sydney Dragway.
Lamattina Top Fuel Racing has continued their strong late season form to close out the 2022/2023 Burson Auto Parts Australian Top Fuel Championship at Nitro Up North in Darwin, setting up a solid foundation to build from for the upcoming new National Drag Racing Championship.
Hydraulink Jim Read Racing has claimed third in the 2022/2023 Burson Auto Parts Australian Top Fuel Championship amidst a difficult final round at the Hidden Valley Drag Strip at the weekend.
After top qualifying on Friday, two-time champion Peter Xiberras and the PremiAir Hire Top Fuel Dragster have raced through to the Nitro Up North event victory and second in the 2022/2023 Burson Auto Parts Australian Top Fuel Championship on Saturday evening.
In front of a packed house, the Burson Auto Parts Australian Top Fuel Championship and Australian Drag Racing Championship have celebrated not only event winners for Nitro Up North, but also the season Champions for Top Fuel, Top Doorslammer and Top Fuel Motorcycle at the Hidden Valley Drag Strip this evening.
The Australian National Drag Racing Association was recently very pleased to appoint Danya Borkowski from Western Australia and Paul Rogers Jnr from Victoria to its two independent Board positions.
Three rounds of racing are all that now separates the racers of the Burson Auto Parts Australian Top Fuel Championship as well as the ADRC Top Doorslammer and ADRC Top Fuel Motorcycle titles.
‘Pommie’ Steve Read, one of Australian drag racing’s most experienced racers, is set to make a comeback to the Top Fuel category in late 2023.
The 55th Gulf Western Oil Winternationals at Willowbank Raceway ended an era, the event being the swan song for the 400 Thunder Aeroflow Drag Racing Series, with the national championship now unified under the National Drag Racing Championship (NDRC) banner.
Since Chris Matheson’s arrival on the Australian drag racing scene 14 years ago, he has kept fans on the precipice of witnessing history – one of the last major milestones in the sport – the first five second Top Fuel Bike run.
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