John Cannuli realises life long championship dream
John Cannuli achieved a life long dream by winning the 2015/2016 ANDRA Drag Racing Series Top Alcohol Championship.
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John Cannuli achieved a life long dream by winning the 2015/2016 ANDRA Drag Racing Series Top Alcohol Championship.
If you love insanely fast sedans, Sydney Dragway has some of the best in the country racing this weekend at the Atura Championship Series on Saturday April 16.
The 50th anniversary for Surfers Raceway and the US Dragfest turned into a nostalgic talkfest as hundreds attended celebrations on April 10 at the site formerly occupied by the Gold Coast race track.
The Sydney Dragway team has promised to deliver one of the best race surfaces ever as the track crew look to provide the best chance for the 400 Thunder racers to smash national records at the Nitro Champs on May 7 and 8.
The craziest sedans in all of drag racing hammered the Sydney Dragway blacktop once again at the Australian Pro Street Association (APSA) Shootout in a spectacular display that only Pro Street racing delivers.
This past weekend Jason Stares became the new Summit Racing Equipment Sportsman Series Top Sportsman Champion and winning the ANDRA Championship Grand Final.
The ANDRA Championship Grand Final saw four new National Records set, one over 1000 feet and three over the quarter mile.
Drag racing can provide its competitors with inspiration to get through different parts of their life and issue 15 of Drag News Magazine uses that as a theme for a personal and thoughtful read. We open with an honest interview with retiring Top Fuel Motorcycle rider Phil Parker, who tells us about his battle with cancer, how drag racing gave him a life worth living and what his plans are beyond the quarter mile. Peter Peirano is one of the most colourful characters in the pit area of any drag racing event but under that bright exterior he has faced his own personal challenges. We find out how drag racing provided a light at the end of the tunnel for the nitro funny car team owner. Shane Wynd is one of Australia’s top bracket racers and he tells us how a quick decision to travel to the USA was just what he needed. Plus event coverage from Lights Out at Willowbank Raceway and Sydney Dragway, an up close look at Jeff Lutz’s awesome Evil Twin 57 Chev including a pull out poster, a double dose of nitro from Perth Motorplex, sportsman action from Whyalla, Top Doorslammers from Calder Park and more. Click here to order issue 15 of Drag News Magazine.
The ANDRA Drag racing Series came to a close last weekend with final rounds for Top Fuel Motorcycle, Top Doorslammer and Top Alcohol.
Watch the ANDRA Championship Grand Final Live Stream here from 9am ACST – Sunday April 10.
John Zappia is a nine-time ANDRA Top Doorslammer champion following the completion of qualifying for the ANDRA Championship Grand Final in front of a huge 9000 strong crowd at Adelaide International Raceway.
Swan Hill Dragway, Australia’s newest quarter mile drag strip has announced today the facility will be ANDRA sanctioned.
Willowbank Raceway hosted the first stand alone round of the 400 Thunder Sportsman Series with around 120 racers taking to the track for points as the inaugural season head towards finality.
With Mount Emerald as its backdrop, Springmount Raceway in Far North Queensland felt the rumble and thunder from the Aeroflow Outlaw Nitro Funny Cars for the first time recently at their Grand Opening event.
When O’Rourke Motorsport’s Grant O’Rourke heads to Adelaide International Raceway this weekend for the ANDRA Grand Final, he will have one last try to snatch the Top Doorslammer title away from reigning and eight-time champ John Zappia.
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