VALE: ‘GENTLEMAN’ JIM REED
23 August 2023
It is with great sadness we report the passing of a pioneer in Australian drag racing, famed blown altered racing legend Jim Reed at age of 86.
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It is with great sadness we report the passing of a pioneer in Australian drag racing, famed blown altered racing legend Jim Reed at age of 86.
Wives versus husbands, mates versus mates, the finals at Springmount Raceway’s Aeroflow National Sportsman Championship round at the weekend had no shortage of thrilling match-ups.
Those radial tyre weapons were back at Sydney Dragway to put on a show for another round of the 2023 Kenda Tires 660 Drag Radial Series.
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After two and a half years at the helm, Paul Trengove will step down from his role as Perth Motorplex General Manager at the end of August 2023.
Final day of testing before the Brisbane Jamboree proper gets underway this weekend. The day was packed full of machine gunning two steps, flames and braap. Check it out with photos and video courtesy of Drag Photos and Import Media.
Flame on! Day 2 of testing for this weekend’s Brisbane Jamboree turned up the heat. Check it out with photos and video courtesy of Drag Photos and Import Media
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‘Just f’n send it’ might as well be the unofficial calling for Australia’s wildest drag racing event. Grudge Kings was back for 2023 at Sydney Dragway, where any engine denomination, and whether it’s blown, turbo, nitrous or just the most cubic inches money can buy, it will feature at this event.
Reigning Australian Top Doorslammer champion Kelvin Lyle announced his retirement from drag racing recently following a terrible crash at the season-ending Nitro up North event in Darwin. He recently updated the drag racing world on his recovery and what happened on that night with crash.
It is feeling real now, the Dragway At The Bend’s construction is nearly at the finish line. The last touches are being applied and it won’t be long until horsepower is unleashed on Australia’s newest drag strip.
For South Queensland’s dedicated sportsman racers, there has been a couple of quick-fire Queensland Drag Racing Championship rounds in July, as the Willowbank Raceway squeezes in as much racing as possible before the venue shutdowns for the track upgrades
Testing is run and done, $5000 was won in the Small Tyre Smackdown, and we are prepped for race day at the Kenda Tires 660 Drag Radial Series at Sydney Dragway.
There were radial weapons aplenty testing under glorious conditions at Sydney Dragway ahead of this weekend’s round 3 of the Kenda Tires 660 Drag Radial Series.
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