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The 2023 racing year at the Perth Motorplex was closed out by their Summer Slam event featuring the local Top Doorslammer and Top Bike championships plus the full allotment of sportsman track championship categories.
A special gathering on January 20 at Peter Leahy Custom Imports commemorated 15 years since the passing of drag racing icon Roly Leahy. In attendance also was Jim and Elaine Walton who were also honoured with a surprise of their lives.
Dave Todd raced through for the NDRC Christmas Tree Trophy at South Coast 660 and is now gearing up with his 800hp 1978 Gemini to take on South Coast Raceway’s South Coast Rumble as part of a great entry list next weekend (February 3-4).
This Friday and Saturday (January 26 and 27), PremiAir Racing will do all it can to open its 2024 in the best way possible – by taking home event-winning NDRC Christmas Tree trophies –at Sydney Dragway’s Australia Day Nationals.
If you ask Abbey Kay McDonald, there’s no better place than this weekend’s Saltwood @ Rosedale Australia Day Nationals at Sydney Dragway to make her national level drag racing debut amongst an all-star National Drag Racing Championship (NDRC) line-up.
Hydraulink Jim Read Racing is gearing up for an action-packed five months of Top Fuel drag racing all around the country, starting with this weekend’s double-header Australia Day Nationals at Sydney Dragway.
Scratch & Match Motorsport have racked up thousands of miles of travel in advance of the Australia Day Nationals following a rollercoaster Festival State Nationals recently in South Australia.
Sydney Dragway is the place to be to celebrate Australia Day this weekend, headlined by a huge field of eight 11,000hp/500kph Top Fuel Dragsters.
Two championship rounds for eight Top Fuelers; Top Doorslammer, Pro Stock, Pro Stock Motorcycle, Pro Alcohol and FuelTech Pro Mod title fights; plus Aeroflow National Sportsman Championship racing, fireworks and more – this Friday and Saturday’s Saltwood @ Rosedale Australia Day Nationals is set to be unmissable.
Six new ANDRA national records have been recorded between the recent South Coast 660 and Festival State Nationals events, held at South Coast Raceway (January 6-7) and Dragway at The Bend (January 13-14) respectively.
Two-time Top Fuel champ Phil Lamattina is calling out his rivals heading into the NDRC Australia Day Nationals Top Fuel double header at Sydney Dragway (January 26/27) – and none more so than his ex-teammate, Shane Olive.
An already dramatic NDRC Top Doorslammer Championship season became even more so at the weekend’s Festival State Nationals with a controversial A-Final, ensuring high emotions are practically guaranteed amongst the stars of the bracket at next weekend’s Australia Day Nationals in Sydney (January 26/27).
Following an investigation into the Top Doorslammer final at yesterday’s Festival State Nationals at Dragway at The Bend, it has been determined that John Zappia committed a breach of the rules that had been originally flagged by an event official at the time, with a crew person touching the car whilst Zappia was fully staged.
Race fans have delighted in all that the National Drag Racing Championship (NDRC) has to offer with epic performances from Nitro Funny Cars, Top Doorslammers, Top Fuel Motorcycles and the Aeroflow National Sportsman Series ensuring the 20,000+ strong crowd on-track and the many watching live on 7plus were captivated from start to finish.
Five 11,000hp Nitro Funny Cars have ensured their debut at Dragway at The Bend will not soon be forgotten, laying down a number of lightning fast, flame-throwing passes to delight the large and super enthusiastic crowd.
Rachelle Splatt is taking on a new drag racing challenge as she makes a return to drag racing in an all-female collaboration. The formation of the Center Steer Motorsport team will feature Splatt returning to racing in a sportsman role and joined by mother and daughter duo Sarah Roderick and Ashleigh Pinkstone from Roderick Family Racing.
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