Double doorslammer title fight looming at Westernats this weekend
4 March 2022
This weekend’s 51st MacTrack Westernationals at the Perth Motorplex will host intense competition for not one, but two Top Doorslammer championships.
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This weekend’s 51st MacTrack Westernationals at the Perth Motorplex will host intense competition for not one, but two Top Doorslammer championships.
At last year’s Westernationals at the Perth Motorplex, local Top Doorslammer racer Steve Aldridge went all the way to the finals in his Crown Security Plymouth Cuda.
Mildura’s Sunraysia Drag Racing Club has pulled off the biggest coup in drag racing, securing a round of the Burson Auto Parts Australian Top Fuel Championship for the Sunset Strip facility. The event, which takes place March 12 and 13, is the first Top Fuel championship round to be held in Victoria in a decade and sees all active teams and six Top Fuel cars heading to Mildura to race in their 10,000hp rocket ships.
The first eighth-mile event in the history of Top Fuel Championship racing will take place at Mildura’s Sunset Strip on March 12 and 13, with teams preparing for the unique challenge of the shorter distance.
The brand maybe extinct in production circles, but the Holden name will live on for a long time yet in drag racing with event like the Tuff Mounts Holden Drag Nationals at Heathcote Park Raceway.
The Perth Motorplex is set to fire up with unmissable nitro action this Saturday and Sunday with the 2022 MacTrack Westernationals.
Steel City Raceway has had a rough time of it in recent times, if COVID lockdowns didn’t cause enough disruptions, multiple flooding put strains on the only currently active South Australian drag strip.
Roger Moorhouse will have the opportunity to secure a Westernats hat trick this weekend when the 2022 MacTrack Westernationals event hits the Perth Motorplex across March 5-6
Hard to believe, but Sydney Dragway somehow dodged the weather La Nina is wreaking on the East Coast of Australia to complete the opening round of the 2022 NSW Championship Series.
Les Holden might be riding the smallest cubed bike in the field at next weekend’s 2022 MacTrack Westernationals, but that isn’t stopping him from having big aspirations heading into the prestigious event at the Perth Motorplex.
It was a cool little event out of South Coast Raceway in Portland, Victoria that is becoming more popular each year. The South Coast Street Car Challenge for 2022 had over 50 cars taking up the challenge portion of the event which saw racers having to cruise their machines before racing for $2000 in prizemoney on the drag strip.
The abysmal weather on the East Coast has unfortunately claimed this weekend’s opening round of the Kenda Tires 660 Drag Radial Series at Willowbank Raceway, but a few cars managed some laps in testing.
The Australian National Drag Racing Association (ANDRA) and the Swan Hill Drag Racing Club (SHDRC) have announced the signing of an exclusive long-term partnership for sanctioning services for events held at Swan Hill Dragway.
The Burson Auto Parts Australian Top Fuel Championship has announced their final calendar for Season One after what has been a topsy turvy start thanks to border closures and other off track dramas.
Second-generation racer Angel Bakranich heads to next weekend’s MacTrack Westernationals at the Perth Motorplex on a high after securing her first event victory last week.
Willowbank Raceway has announced it will receive $11 million in Government funding for much needed upgrades to the facility.
One of the most iconic Toranas in drag racing – courtesy of new owner Dave Andrews – is once again gracing the blacktop.
A new season delivers new hope for those chasing track championship glory at Willowbank Raceway, as the new Queensland Drag Racing Championship (QDRC) launched out of the staging beams.
The Bend will further cement its place as Australia’s premier motorsport destination with construction started on a new $30 million dragway designed to host A-grade quarter-mile events
The Burson Auto Parts Australian Top Fuel Championship is coming to Mildura in a special sunset 1/8th mile event! The Top Fuel monsters are joined by Top Bike, Pro Stock and a full roster of Sportsman categories from Junior Dragster through to Supercharged Outlaws.
We have an awesome collection of photographers who capture amazing imagines at events for Drag News Magazine. Here is a bonus gallery from the Burson Auto Parts Australian Top Fuel Championship event at Sydney Dragway as seen through the lenses of Joe Maday and John Bosher.
They were back to racing at Heathcote Park Raceway last weekend and starting afresh with the 2022 HPR Sportsman Championship. Check out our bumper gallery.
Last weekend at Heathcote Park Raceway Tony Frost had his long ambition of racing a Pro Stock Motorcycle come true.
We put some of our favourite photos together from the spectacular opening round of the 2022 Burson Auto Parts Australian Top Fuel Championship at Sydney Dragway.
Sydney Dragway has released statement cancelling the running of the 52nd Australian Nationals which was to be held next weekend.
The highly anticipated Burson Auto Parts Australian Top Fuel Championship is finally here and it delivered on the promise of a taking drag racing into a new era of event promotion and fan entertainment.
The following statement has been issued on the sanctioning of Sydney Dragway.
The rumours were true, Graeme Cowin – mastermind of the epic Aeroflow Outlaw Nitro Funny Car series – has also been piecing together a big time Nitro Funny Car.
The House and Land Expert Nitro Slam event is set to bring plenty of action to the Perth Motorplex this Saturday (January 29), featuring the Direct Mining International Summer Slam, the BME/Speedtorque WA Nitro Max Series, Dragon Bikes Nitro Bike, 150 of WA’s toughest Sportsman racers, and an exciting ‘Pit Party’ bringing fans up close and personal with their favourite racing heroes.
The old adage may be that the family that races together, stays together, but when it comes to their competitive spirit father/daughter duo Anthony and Emma Begley take no prisoners and fans should expect no different at this weekend’s House and Land Expert Nitro Slam event at the Perth Motorplex (29 January).
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