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Seasoned drag racer Phil Gardiner had plenty to smile about at Red CentreNATS last week, taking out the Heavy Hitters 8.0 class after a hard-fought day of racing at Alice Springs Inland Dragway.
The 2022/2023 Burson Auto Parts Australian Top Fuel Championship kicked off on September 1st and 2nd and for the first time ever, the nitro powered dragsters were as the headline act for Alice Springs’ amazing Red CentreNats event!
The Red CentreNATS brought the biggest drag racing show ever to Alice Springs Inland Dragway across September 2-4, hosting the Burson Auto Parts Australian Top Fuel Championship, the ADRC Top Doorslammers and over 100 Heavy Hitter racers, as well as grudge runs and competition for the RCN Grand Champion.
It is with great regret that Top Fuel has decided to postpone its Summernats Slam event scheduled for October 1 and 2 at Heathcote Park Raceway. There are a number of factors behind the decision, including heavy wet weather experienced in the last month, with even more forecast for the next couple of weeks leading to the event.
The 400 Thunder Aeroflow Drag Racing Series is proud to welcome Andrew Casos as the Chief Starter and Emma O’Neill as the Relationships Co-Ordinator to the event team that will be at every 400 Thunder Aeroflow Drag Racing Series event for the remainder of the 2022-23 Season.
Hydraulink Jim Read Racing will have to wait until November to find out if it will be crowned as the victors of the opening round of the 2022 Burson Auto Parts Australian Top Fuel Championship, with unseasonably cold conditions at Alice Springs Inland Dragway on Friday evening forcing the postponement of the final runs to November’s Goldenstates event at the Perth Motorplex.
PremiAir Racing and the rest of the Burson Auto Parts Australian Top Fuel Championship field will have to wait until November to find out who will be crowned as the victors of the opening round of the 2022 season, after the finals at Alice Springs Inland Dragway were called off due to unseasonably cold weather.
The fastest drag racing series in the country, the Burson Auto Parts Australian Top Fuel Championship, demands an award as spectacular as the racing it serves up each round. When Top Fuel Australia’s Nathan Prendergast reached out to the Sainty Family late last season to ask if they could name the championship in Stan’s honour, the wheels quickly began turning.
The biggest drag racing show Alice Springs has ever seen wowed race fans with a huge one-day program on Friday 2 September before unseasonably cold conditions saw the action draw to a premature close late in the evening with the finals for the Burson Auto Parts Australian Top Fuel Championship and the ADRC Top Doorslammers postponed to future events.
Finally, after three years, the organisers of 2022 Garrett Brisbane Jamboree have been able to sign off on a Jamboree that has been void of COVID restrictions.
West Australian racer Kelvin Lyle has his eye on victory this week as he heads to Alice Springs Inland Dragway for round two of the ADRC Top Doorslammer championship as part of Red CentreNATS.
The new Burson Auto Parts Australian Top Fuel Championship season will see FUCHS Lubricants – the world’s largest independent lubricant manufacturer – continue their support of Lamattina Top Fuel Racing.
Peter Xiberras and the PremiAir Racing Top Fuel team will make their debut at Alice Springs Inland Dragway this week as the back-to-back and reigning Burson Auto Parts Australian Top Fuel Champions begin their title defence.
Rapisarda Autosport International has confirmed plans to race at all rounds of the 2022-23 Burson Auto Parts Australian Top Fuel Championship.
The new Australian Top Doorslammer Championship is merely one event old, but already expectations have been flipped as title holders struggle in the face of new challengers to the crown.
Atlantic Oils is thrilled to be continuing their long-running support of Rapisarda Autosport International when they begin another championship campaign this week at the Red CentreNats, when the new Burson Auto Parts 2022/2023 Australian Top Fuel Championship kicks off in Alice Springs.
This Thursday and Friday (September 1/2) the largest drag racing event ever seen in Alice Springs will descend on Alice Springs Inland Dragway (ASID) to kick off the Red CentreNATS festival.
Hydraulink Jim Read Racing will begin a new championship hunt this week with the first round of the 2022/2023 Burson Auto Parts Australian Top Fuel Championship kicking off at Alice Springs Inland Dragway this Thursday and Friday (September 1 and 2).
Grudge Kings returned to Sydney Dragway for the baddest drag cars and best show cars in the country. Despite a few false starts in attempts to get the event run this year due to bad weather, organiser Po Tung was finally blessed with perfect weather on his persistent third time lucky attempt.
Jim Read Racing and Valvoline are pleased to announce not only the continuation of their partnership into the new 2022/2023 Burson Auto Parts Australian Top Fuel Championship season, but also a significant increase in Valvoline’s support of the team.
Burson Auto Parts and Lamattina Top Fuel Racing are excited to announce – for the 2022/23 Burson Auto Parts Australian Top Fuel Championship season – the renewal of their marketing partnership as naming rights sponsor for the Shane Olive driven LTFR Top Fuel Dragster.
The Nostalgia Drags at Mildura’s Sunset Strip is always well supported and a great day out, and this year’s was no different with a load of old school action on track.
Hydraulink will continue as the naming rights partner of Hydraulink Jim Read Racing for the 2022/2023 Burson Auto Parts Australian Top Fuel Championship.
All the safety equipment performed its job, allowing George Josevski to walk away from this horrendous fireball at the 2022 Brisbane Jamboree.
The Brisbane Jamboree is well underway with some spectacular qualifying day action. Check out our gallery and who ran what in qualifying with racing for the J-trophy set for Sunday.
All the high revving, flame throwing, wheelstanding action from the first two days of testing ahead of this weekend’s 2022 Brisbane Jamboree at Willowbank Raceway.
The local 2022 Hidden Valley Track Championship is drawing to a close with just two rounds to go in the season before the Top End rains arrive. Here are the results and gallery from the recent round four.
So much action from the Sydney Kenda Tires 660 Drag Radial Series event at Sydney Dragway, we couldn’t contain it in the one gallery. Check out Drag News Magazine photography gun Joe Maday’s take on the event.
It was a double act at Willowbank Raceway last weekend, when the venue played host to round five of the Queensland Drag Racing Championships and a day just for the kids with the Junior Dragster Blast.
It has only been a couple of months since Nino Cavallo devastating accident in the Pro Stock final of the 2022 Winternationals, but the team are well on the way to making a comeback to the track.
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