R32 GT-R & R33 world records decimated
2 June 2022
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.
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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.
Our first mega action gallery from the 2022 Nitro Champs featuring round four of the Burson Auto Parts Top Fuel Championship and Speed Adict Clothing Co. NSW Championship Series.
The Hidden Valley drag racing season has staged and launched for 2022 with round one of their track championship series. It will be a huge year for the Top End track, hosting the final for the Australian Top Fuel Championship in an epic Nitro Up North as part of the Darwin Triple Crown motorsport extravaganza.
When Lisa Garbellini claimed the 2021/2022 Summit Racing Equipment Sportsman Series National Championship for Super Street, she dethroned none other than her own husband, Paul Garbellini, who was happily forced to settle for runners-up honours this year.
Hydraulink Jim Read Racing is pleased to announce that it will be taking part in round five of the Burson Auto Parts Australian Top Fuel Championship at Heathcote Park Raceway next weekend (May 21-22).
Jim Read Racing would like to thank its fans and the drag racing community at large for the outpouring of support it has received since the incident which occurred at Sydney Dragway on Saturday evening.
Cold conditions and incidents played havoc with race day for the 2022 edition of the Gulf Western Oil Nitro Champs at Sydney Dragway.
Peter Xiberras and the PremiAir Hire Top Fuel Dragster raced through for a new Sydney track record at the weekend, resetting both the ET and MPH markers to an incredible 3.768 seconds and 513.98 kilometres per hour respectively.
The Burson Auto Parts Australian Top Fuel Championship will make history next season, visiting every Australian state and territory with a national level drag strip for the first time.
In a sensational evening of Top Fuel qualifying, the Atlantic Oils/Rapisarda Autosports International dragsters of Damien Harris and Wayne Newby stormed their way to the top the qualifying sheets in record time during round 4 of the Burson Auto Parts Australian Top Fuel Championship at Sydney Dragway’s Gulf Western Oil Nitro Champs event.
Hydraulink Jim Read Racing has its eye on another hometown win at Sydney Dragway this weekend (May 6/7), when its home track will light up for round four of the Burson Auto Parts Australian Top Fuel Championship.
Despite some less than favourable weather predictions, round three of the the Speed Adict Clothing NSW Championship Series at Sydney Dragway didn’t suffer the same fate as round two, in fact the conditions turned out perfect for some tough sportsman bracket racing.
As the Top Fuel teams head into this weekend’s Gulf Western Oil Nitro Champs at Sydney Dragway, the Burson Auto Parts Australian Top Fuel Championship sits delicately poised at the midway point of the series. Such is the evenness of the competition, all three rounds to date have resulted in three different winners.
The 2022 Kenda Tires 660 Drag Radial Series is now in full swing with a big field from the radial tyre army taking on round two of the series, and their first point scoring opportunity now there are no border restrictions.
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