New era for ADRC as ANDRA licenses championship to TFRA
9 June 2022
ANDRA is pleased to announce that the Australian Drag Racing Championship (ADRC) will run alongside the 2022/2023 Burson Auto Parts Top Fuel Australia Championship.
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ANDRA is pleased to announce that the Australian Drag Racing Championship (ADRC) will run alongside the 2022/2023 Burson Auto Parts Top Fuel Australia Championship.
A change of race format and the lure of some serious cash has motivated Rob Harrington into a thrash to have his ‘Bad Influence II’ Monaro on track, and ready to debut in Pro Slammer at the Gulf Western Oil Winternationals.
A win at the Winternationals has alluded Pro Stock racer Wayne Daley, it is this unfinished business that has the Diamond T Custom Toolboxes team going full tilt at this year’s event.
We have been handed log files from Willowbank’s Winter Warm Ups and can up date you on some of the professional racer performances across the weekend ahead of the 2022 Gulf Western Oil Winternationals which is just one day away.
Barely four weeks after one of the ACDelco Top Doorslammer Drag team Monaros was involved in a racing incident which saw their season hanging in the balance, the team has put in a huge repair effort and is set to go head-to-head against the competition at the Winternationals at Willowbank Raceway in Ipswich this weekend.
Current points leader for the 2022/23 Pro Stock Championship, Tyronne Tremayne is currently being treated for a serious injury after falling on his shoulder while leaving work last Friday. The heavy fall left him needing immediate surgery and will require 6 to 8 weeks recovery time, but it could be up to a year before he regains for full use of his arm.
The Winter Warm Ups wrapped on Sunday at Willowbank Raceway, and with it racers last chance to fine tune for this week’s Gulf Western Oil Winternationals.
Following the recent announcement of Jason Hedges as General Manager of 400 Thunder, Justin Walshe has been appointed to the Board of Directors for the 400 Thunder Series.
The Australian National Drag Racing Association is pleased to officially release the dates for the 2022/2023 Summit Racing Equipment Sportsman Series.
The Winter Warm Ups are underway at Willowbank Raceway giving racers a chance to test ahead of next weekend’s Gulf Western Oil Winternationals and 400 Thunder Championship Series.
The action packed calendar will include 400 Thunder staples and fan favourite events at Willowbank Raceway, Sydney Dragway and two new tracks to the 400 Thunder family; Heathcote Park Raceway in Victoria and the Bend Dragway in South Australia.
To help foster the drag racers of tomorrow, automotive aftermarket parts giant Aeroflow has thrown its weight behind a new ‘Future Stars’ program that will make its debut at next weekend’s Gulf Western Oil Winternationals.
Summernats Slam was so awesome it deserves a bonus gallery, so check out Drag News Magazine photographer Joe Maday’s take on a wild weekend at Heathcote Park Raceway.
It was a huge week in the GT-R world at Sydney Dragway, with the record books rewritten again by some astonishing performances from these Nissan RB-powered animals.
Look back at all the phenomenal action and epic scenes from Heathcote Park Raceway when Top Fuel returned for the first time in 30 years for Summernats Slam as part of the Burson Auto Parts Australian Top Fuel Championship. Stay tuned for another bonus gallery coming soon from Drag News Magazine photography contributors.
The countdown is well and truly on for the biggest drag racing event held outside of North America on June 9-12 at Willowbank Raceway. Less than one week till we see the best of the best battle it out to be crowned the Gulf Western Oil Winternationals champion, and take home a coveted gold Christmas tree in the most exciting 400 Thunder event of the year.
The latest piece in The Bend Motorsport Park’s Dragway development has fallen into place with the appointment of Stephen Bettes as the dragway precinct General Manager.
Jason Hedges has been appointed as the incoming General Manager for the 400 Thunder Professional Drag Racing Series.
Extra action packed gallery from this year’s Gulf Western Oil Nitro Champs event at Sydney Dragway through the lenses of Drag News Magazine’s photography contributors Joe Maday and John Bosher. Killer job guys.
The Hidden Valley Track Championship continues on with the running of round two recently. Here are the winners and an action gallery, as the venue now prepares for Nitro Up North and the conclusion of the Australian Top Fuel Championship.
It has taken 30 years but Top Fuel championship racing has returned to Victoria’s rejuvenated Heathcote Park Raceway in spectacular fashion, delivering amazing scenes on and off the track. A capacity crowd crammed HPR for Summernats Slam, a new motorsport festival concept, combining Top Fuel drag racing with burnouts, a show and shine and even fireworks.
The Burson Auto Parts Australian Top Fuel Championship (ATFC) headed to Heathcote Park Raceway for the first time in 30 years, and a rare set of circumstances saw Lamattina Top Fuel Racing contest, and come up trumps in two championship round finals at the one event.
PremiAir Racing is once again preparing for a double-header weekend, with the next round for both the Repco Supercars Championship and the Burson Auto Parts Australian Top Fuel Championship (ATFC) to be held at the one event in Darwin next month.
An absolutely at-capacity crowd at Heathcote Park Raceway celebrated the return of Hydraulink Jim Read Racing to the Burson Auto Parts Australian Top Fuel Championship at the weekend, with the team inundated with well wishes across both days of the event.
The Australian Top Doorslammer Championship will accelerate back on to the national scene with the announcement that the 3500hp, 400kmh supercharged sedans will be travelling around the country alongside the Burson Auto Parts Australian Top Fuel Championship.
400 Thunder Pro Slammer stars from across the country will come together at the Gulf Western Oil Winternationals for an exciting new “Double Header” All Run format and major $40,000 cash prize payout.
This weekend, for the first time in 30 years, Top Fuel championship racing will return to Heathcote Park Raceway with the running of the fifth round of the Burson Auto Parts Top Fuel Championship. However a winner from the incomplete round four in Sydney still needs to be decided, ensuring a frenetic qualifying show on Saturday.
After the Gulf Western Oil Nitro Champs, Victorian Rob Dekert has established himself as the new threat in Pro Stock, setting the bar for the class’s unleaded fuel era.
Hydraulink Jim Read Racing will be looking to turn around its fortunes at round five of the Burson Auto Parts Australian Top Fuel Championship this weekend.
Doorslammer racer Paul Cannuli has a new set of wheels which he will show off this weekend at the Garrett Sydney Jamboree in FuelTech USA Pro Mod.
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