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With the Wet Season abating the Hidden Valley drag racing season is underway for another year, and two rounds of the HVDRA Track Championship have been completed to date.
At last year’s Winternationals, Supercharged Outlaw racer Bill Fletcher was involved in violent braking area crash that totally destroyed his dragster, since recovering from the accident, the team have had a new dragster built, and Bill will return to competitive drag racing a year on.
With the 2023 Winternationals now one week away, the now Top Fuel Funny Car driver and seasoned Pro Alcohol Altered campaigner Justin Walshe reflects on the year that was and looks forward to a united future in drag racing.
The number plate says “Tuff” and it is. But nowhere near as tough as the rider.
The Queensland Drag Racing Championship has continued on with the fifth round of the super season at Willowbank Raceway. Here are the results and some cool pics from Drag Photos from a great day of sportsman racing.
The recent Nitro Champs gave some Pro Alcohol racers a chance to gain valuable track time and data in a non-championship race setting ahead of the Winternationals, however for Brett White the event panned out as anything but casual in the Fineline Motorsports funny car.
Today the Hon. Stephen Mullighan MP announced that South Australia has secured the opening round of the National Drag Racing Championship featuring the Burson Auto-Parts Australian Top Fuel Championship. The series will will host their opening round at the new world-class Dragway at The Bend in South Australia on October 21-22, 2023, followed by a further two rounds to be hosted by The Bend on January 13-14, 2024, and April 6-7, 2024.
The National Drag Racing Championship has unveiled an exciting 11-round national championship calendar for Group One categories today at The Bend Dragway.
Rising out of the ashes of his Nitro Phoenix Top Fuel Harley team comes Damian Muscat’s reborn – and now banging on four cylinders – Nitro Phoenix Fully Blown Top Fuel Motorcycle team.
A piece of Puerto Rican import racing history, the iconic “El Humilde” Toyota A86 owned by Carlos Ruiz is heading to the Nader family in Sydney.
Bonus gallery with more terrific shots from the 2023 Gulf Western Oil Nitro Champs, check it out.
The Australian National Drag Racing Association (ANDRA) and the National Drag Racing Championship (NDRC) wish to confirm that they have reached agreement on integrating the contracted Summit Racing Equipment Sportsman Series rounds into the NDRC Sportsman Championship Western Conference, with a seamless transition to the Aeroflow Sportsman Championship starting from 1st January 2024.
For Australian Pro Stock racer Shane Tucker his return to the NHRA Camping World Drag Racing Series has been a tough battle. Tucker, who has the full season backing of UrPay, an Australian-owned payment processing company that is moving into the US market, on his Chevrolet Camaro has competed in every national event this season, but he broke through this weekend at the Gerber Collision & Glass NHRA Nationals.
Relive the 2023 Gulf Western Oil Nitro Champs with this monster gallery from a epic two days of racing at Sydney Dragway.
While he won’t be taking home another Australian championship this season, John Zappia has successfully moved his Dananni Hotshots / Fuchs Lubricants Monaro to the next generation of transmission technology, with near best-ever numbers recorded at the Nitro Champs at Sydney Dragway.
The Australian National Drag Racing Association wishes to provide the following update to its membership on the ongoing recruitment process for a new Chief Executive Officer.
The National Drag Racing Championship (NDRC) has today announced an exclusive partnership with Australia’s Home of Motorsport, the Seven Network.
Australia’s quickest and fastest man on two wheels, Chris “NitroVoodoo” Matheson, has called time on his illustrious career. Matheson was the man to beat in Top Fuel Motorcycle racing for the last decade, as he and his NitroVoodoo team crossed Australia in their quest to rewrite history in the sport.
While the weather destroyed what was shaping up as a record setting Sydney Jamboree, a few racers made the most of the preceding test days including Collin Willshire who raised the four cylinder bar in Australia once again with the Jett Racing Mitsubishi Eclipse.
Round two of the popular Kenda Tires 660 Drag Radial Series has been run and done at Willowbank Raceway on May 6. Radial racers of Australia once again turned it on as they went to war over the half track distance.
The 2023 Sydney Jamboree is go! After a false start earlier in the year, being forced to change dates due to other events, the racers and their cars are probably appreciating the cooler conditons a Jambo in May brings.
The Australian National Drag Racing Association (ANDRA) acknowledges the release this afternoon of a vision statement for a new proposed series, under the National Drag Racing Championship (NDRC) banner.
Australia – Andy Lopez and Nathan Prendergast, the team behind the Burson Auto Parts Australian Top Fuel Championship, have today announced the creation of the National Drag Racing Championship (NDRC). The NDRC is the new, unified national championship for drag racing in Australia.
Hard work and persistence have paid off in turning Lamattina Top Fuel Racing’s season around at Sydney Dragway for the 2023 Nitro Champs. Phil Lamattina was the top qualifier with a new personal best ET and finished runner up in the A-Final. Shane Olive earnt two round win lights, culminating in the C-Final win.
Highlights from the latest round of the 2023 Kenda Tires 660 Drag Radial Series being held at Willowbank Raceway on May 4-5.
While the 2023 Nitro Champs might not have gone the way that the Hydraulink Jim Read Racing team might have hoped, the team are steadfast in their commitment to fight to the very end when it comes to the Burson Auto Parts Australian Top Fuel Championship.
With a B-Final victory over Wayne Newby at this weekend’s Nitro Champs in Sydney, Peter Xiberras and PremiAir Racing have ensured they are in the box seat to challenge for their third straight national Top Fuel Championship.
This weekend’s Nitro Champs at Sydney Dragway – the penultimate round of the Burson Auto Parts Australian Top Fuel Championship and Australian Drag Racing Championship chase – have ensured the Top Fuel title battle will go down to the wire at next month’s finale in Darwin.
The action at Sydney Dragway’s Nitro Champs – the penultimate round of the 2022/2023 Burson Auto Parts Australian Top Fuel Championship and the Australian Drag Racing Championship (ADRC) for Top Doorslammer and Top Fuel Motorcycle – is set to heat up tomorrow (Saturday May 6) following the conclusion of qualifying for these brackets this evening.
Two brand new Factory Xtreme builds have dropped with Sydney Jamboree coming up in just over a week’s time.
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