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The future is bright for Australia’s Ultimate Festival of Wheels, Red CentreNATS, with Northern Territory Major Events Company (NTMEC) securing another four-year agreement with event partner Summernats.
Springmount Raceway recently held their inaugural Grudge Masters to spice up racing with a different style of event for the Far North Queensland venue. With plenty of cash on offer, racers had a chance to go head to head in a grudge-style event on a pro tree.
The Northern Territory’s Chris Moore is enjoying his first season of racing and after a number of event wins plus a national runner-up result at the Top End Nationals in July, now has his eyes on the Red CentreNATS.
Willowbank Raceway bagged round four of the Queensland Drag Racing Championship pleasantly without the interruptions from weather and COVID matters as the series reaches the half way point.
The ongoing COVID-19 outbreaks and subsequent border closures around the country have regretfully forced the cancellation of both September’s Sunset Strip Nationals and the Adelaide International Raceway event which was scheduled for October 2-3.
Todd Knight came oh so close to victory at his first Red CentreNATS in 2019 and is now preparing to fight for what he hopes will be his breakthrough event victory at the 2021 instalment across September 3-5 in Alice Springs
There’s a lot of advice on how to go fast out there – the problem is knowing which advice to take. It’s a lesson Tony Webb has had to learn the hard way.
The Aeroflow Outlaw Nitro Funny Cars series is set to descend on the Perth Motorplex for a spectacular show in January of 2022.
The Australian National Drag Racing Association (ANDRA) and the Central Queensland Drag Racing Association (CQDRA) regret to confirm that current border closures in the wake of COVID-19 outbreaks around the country have forced the cancellation of the Summit Racing Equipment Sportsman Series double-header that was scheduled to be held at Benaraby Dragway across August 28 and 29.
Australia’s Top Fuel teams have today announced the new Australian Top Fuel Championship calendar. The new national series includes two races in Victoria, a round in Western Australia, two races in Sydney and a mystery Grand Final round.
With much of the country struggling to negotiate lockdowns to hold drag racing right now, Hidden Valley bagged their NT Titles event which made up round three of the local track championship.
NSW’s Pete Glass has swapped his weapon of choice for Supercharged duties with a blown Camaro doorslammer now sitting in his shed.
After some teasing, Race Parts Melbourne have unveiled their latest radial warfare weapon, transforming the former Wayne Keys blown Top Doorslammer into a twin turbo monster ready to take on the best in the Australian radial tyre scene.
The latest round of the Queensland Drag Racing Championships at Willowbank Raceway was effectively a rescheduled round of the wash out in round two. With perfect weather on offer, it looked like a perfect day’s racing was ahead, that was until the Queensland Government dropped a COVID-19 related bomb on the event, announcing a strict lockdown would be enforced from 4pm that afternoon.
Daniel Gregorini followed up his Top End Nationals Top Doorslammer win with a B Final victory at the Desert Nationals in Alice Springs on Sunday.
When Top Sportsman racer Leon Davies arrived at Alice Springs Inland Dragway he was smiling as much as any other Summit Racing Equipment Sportsman Series competitor, but little did he know what was to come.
Matt Abel was left to consider what might have been after a minor gremlin robbed him of valuable hundredths of a second in the Top Doorslammer final at the Desert Nationals on Sunday.
The hugely popular Red CentreNats is back on this year in Alice Springs (3-5 September) and the drag racing Heavy Hitters will go heads up to fight for over $37000 in cash and prizes.
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John Zappia has fired back in the Australian Drag Racing Championship with a Desert Nationals win at Alice Springs Inland Dragway on Sunday.
Western Australia’s Zappia defeated the Northern Territory’s Matt Abel in the final round, 5.853 to 5.960, and took over the lead of the Top Doorslammer points.
The Summit Racing Equipment Sportsman Series saw old faces and new in the winner’s circle of Alice Springs Inland Dragway as drivers and riders from across Australia claimed victories.
John Zappia has found some redemption at the second round of the Australian Drag Racing Championship, as he takes the qualifying lead into day two of the Desert Nationals at Alice Springs Inland Dragway.
Drag racers from around Australia have staked early claims to top qualifying positions in the second round of the 2021/2022 Summit Racing Equipment Sportsman Series.
Cory Read is currently in the middle of a 1500km trip from Darwin to Alice Springs with his Top Sportsman Ford Falcon on a trailer, which actually makes a nice change for the South Australian drag racer.
ANDRA has announced additional dates to the 2021/2022 Summit Racing Equipment Sportsman Series calendar.
Alice Springs local Cody Hodgins will make his Summit Racing Equipment Sportsman Series Super Street debut at this weekend’s Desert Nationals.
Driver Daniel Gregorini recovered from a less-than-average showing at Nitro Up North the previous month to emerge victorious at Darwin’s Hidden Valley Drag Strip.
Top Doorslammers have a reputation for wild handling – something Western Australia’s Kelvin Lyle is all too aware of heading into this weekend’s Desert Nationals at Alice Springs Inland Dragway (July 24/25), which will host round two of the Australian Drag Racing Championship (ADRC) and the Summit Racing Equipment Sportsman Series (SRESS).
The first round of the new Australian Drag Racing Championship will go down in the what-could-have-been category for John Zappia and his Dananni Hotshots/Tony’s Auto Wreckers Monaro Top Doorslammer.
Jim Read Racing’s Bruce Read is familiar with changes in the structure of the sport. He watched his father Jim create the Winfield Top Fuel Series with Kevin Prendergast and Dennis Syrmis in the late eighties, which went on to great heights in the nineties.
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