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Nitro Up North is an iconic Australian event that has been through several incarnations at Hidden Valley Drag Strip, with the latest seeing it become part of a huge motorsport spectacle.
Brandon Gosbell claimed his first ever Aeroflow Outlaw Nitro Funny Car win at last Friday’s Nitro Up North at Hidden Valley Drag Strip.
A lot has changed in the first six months at Heathcote Park Raceway since new owner Lance Warren took over. The venue continues to see improvements on a weekly basis as it is brought back to modern standards.
It wasn’t only record setting on track performances at this year’s Garrett Sydney Jamboree, a massive crowd surely broke attendance records as well.
Josh Leahy is prepared to return to winning form at this Friday night’s Aeroflow Outlaw Nitro Funny Car showdown in Darwin.
This Friday June 18, the Hidden Valley Drag Strip will host an epic Nitro Up North show to the delight of drag racing and Supercars fans alike as a major feature of the Merlin Darwin Triple Crown Supercars round.
The Aeroflow Outlaw Nitro Funny Car series will air live on Fox Sports and 7+ from 7pm to 10.30pm this Friday, June 18. The awesome coverage comes as the funny car series and ever popular Nitro Up North event joins forces with the Supercars and Australian Superbikes championships for the Merlin Darwin Triple Crown at Hidden Valley Raceway.
Round four of the Atura NSW Championship is the last before the series goes into a Winter break, giving teams a chance to regroup after a hectic few months and return in hopefully more favourable weather conditions after rain again affected another series event.
Drag News Magazine wishes to announce that we will no longer be able to cover 400 Thunder drag racing events beginning with this weekend’s Winternationals.
Check out the gallery from round two of the Hidden Valley Dragway Track Championship as they prepare to head into a big two months of events with Nitro Up North and the beginning of the ANDRA Drag Racing Championship at the Top End Nationals.
A record long 400 Thunder season that began back in 2019 will finally come to a close this weekend with the running of the 53rd edition of the Winternationals. Here is where the championship stands in all brackets.
PremiAir Racing is readying to contest an epic Top Fuel championship showdown as part of the largest championship drag racing event held outside of North America this weekend (June 11-13).
As the Gulf Western Oil Winternationals edges closer, the traditional Winter Warm Up weekend gave racers a final chance to test set ups before the big show. Check out the gallery courtesy of the Drag Photos team.
Rachelle Splatt has announced her return to Top Fuel via social media this morning, she last raced in the class back in 2018 with her Gulf Western Oil sponsored dragster.
The tug-o-war for the Street GT-R world record has reached new levels in recent months with the Maatouks Racing’s ‘KING32’ and Croydon Racing Developments ‘JUNII’ trading the world record at almost every attempt.
Fitting a two day event into one day was always going to be a struggle, and with further delays due to fog, a late night finish was inevitable. While the wait was tough on Sportsman racers, with such a monster crowd in the house, the professional show had to take priority for the spectators.
Our final Nitro Thunder gallery from Sydney Dragway, all the action captured by the Cackling Pipes crew for this one.
The Gulf Western Oil Winternationals will come roaring back to life in Ipswich next week at Willowbank Raceway.
Jeremy Callaghan made the perfect racing debut with his absolutely stunning twin turbo IHRA Pro Mod Camaro in a bracket that now has official professional championship status.
The Australian National Drag Racing Association (ANDRA) has announced the establishment of the Australian Drag Racing Championship which will launch with an action-packed 2021/2022 season from July 2021.
Willowbank Raceway announced that 400 Thunder Drag Racing fans around Australia are set to receive an unprecedented 35 hours of television coverage of the 53rd running of the Gulf Western Oil Winternationals at Willowbank Raceway on Fox Sports and Kayo Sports, across Australia, and internationally via MAV TV USA and REV TV Canada.
We have seen Joe Kurtovic Racing’s beautiful blown FED and flame popping nitro Hemi powered ’34 Ford Coupe but at this weekend’s Hot Rod & Custom Auto Expo, Kurtovic has added a piece of Don ‘Big Daddy’ Garlits history to his collection.
Willowbank Raceway is proud to confirm the full television coverage of 53rd running of the Gulf Western Oil Winternationals on Fox Sports and Kayo Sports, across Australia, and delayed international on MAV TV USA and REV TV Canada
This Nitro Thunder gallery is brought to you by long time drag racing photographer John Bosher.
In this super-extended 400 Thunder Championship season, Pro Bike’s Glenn Wooster continued his domination in the category with another event win and a virtually untouchable championship lead.
Our first in a series on Nitro Thunder galleries, the first by the man always in the right spot, Drag News Magazine’s gun Joe Maday.
“This is all for my wife” were words from Nino Cavallo following his emotional win over Rob Dekert in Pro Stock at Nitro Thunder.
The stunning Mad Professor blown door slammers are set to shake up the racing scene again as Rob Taylor returns to the track
The last time Sam Fenech raced a Pro Slammer he won the event, and luckily survived one of the worst high-speed wrecks seen. Over two years later Fenech is back racing a Pro Slammer again, now for Maurice Fabietti’s AC Delco team and again finished the event holding up the Gold Christmas Tree fortunately without the extra drama.
With just two Top Fuel Motorcycles at the event it would be a dual between two potential five second quarter mile challengers.
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