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Following news of a terrible road accident on Sunday night, the drag racing community has stepped up to help support the recoveries of Dom Lagana and Richie Crampton.
While the weather eventually got better of the return to drag racing in NSW at the Gunnedah Drags, racers still got a brief chance to get on to the airport bitumen and have a crack.
The Hidden Valley Drag Racing Association has announced that Nitro Up North will not go ahead for 2020.
Perhaps no other form of all-out motorsport permits the variety of combinations seen in Australian Top Alcohol, where dragsters, funny cars, altereds and even weird combinations in between compete heads-up with 3500 horsepower supercharged motors.
Willowbank’s sportsman racers turned out in force for the fifth round of the Queensland Drag Racing Championships at Willowbank Raceway on August 8, 2020.
Australian Top Fuel driver Richie Crampton and American driver and tuner Dom Lagana were injured in an accident involving Crampton’s 57 Chev on Sunday night in Indianapolis, according to reports.
The Willowbank Raceway board is proud to announce it has appointed highly-respected Queensland sports stadia manager Blair Conaghan as Chief Executive Officer of its venue.
While it was becoming quite clear this year’s Gulf Western Oil Winternationals was not looking likely with all the border closures, it has now been officially cancelled by Willowbank Raceway.
Since they burst onto the scene in 1996, Top Doorslammers have held a special place in the hearts of Australian drag racing fans for their wild antics and brutal speed.
John Force Racing has confirmed they will not be returning for the 2020 NHRA season in a long-awaited statement.
Jeremy Paine has taken a different power making route in the conglomerate of dragsters and altereds that make up Modified Eliminator, and the COVID-19 break has is providing ample opportunity to improve on the RWP Racing dragster’s record-setting performance.
Melbourne’s Darren Clarke is moving along on a Funny Car that has circled back into his possession recently.
A dragster driver almost took out a crew member in a near-accident during a burnout at Byron Dragway.
Western Australian drag racers have been struck a blow with the announcement that the Great Southern Motorplex in Albany will no longer feature a drag strip.
Some creative thinking and a bunch of pent-up drag racing energy created the first ever Junga Bunga’s No Prep Cash Days event at Warwick Dragway on Saturday, July 25.
Former Top Doorslammer champion Peter Kapiris has reiterated that he is not retired, despite having not been part of championship drag racing for some time.
An accident has not deterred Deanne Azzopardi’s Extreme Bike ambitions with a return to racing coming soon.
Slaughter Motorsport is planning to unleash a sweet Supra upon Pro Turbo very soon as work progresses on their new race car.
The dream of owning a Nitro Funny Car is one had by many a drag racing tragic, but it has taken the advent of nostalgia racing and more recently Graeme Cowin’s Aeroflow Outlaw Nitro Funny Car Series to make this dream a reality for more Australians.
Alice Springs will soon have a very cool nostalgia Funny Car in its ranks soon thanks to local fabricator Daniel Hodgins.
The future of Perth Motorplex appears more confident with the WA State Government announcing that a new operator will be taking over the venue’s lease part way through the coming season.
Joe Signorelli made history on Sunday at Willowbank Raceway, finally breaking through to become the first Australian Sport Compact driver into the five second zone.
While Kyle Hopf couldn’t have the first 200mph run on radial tyres in Australia, he did manage to claim the honour of having the first steel-bodied car to score a double-tonne pass.
Wade Wagstaff has dropped his own Australian record for radial tyres during the Kenda 660 Drag Radial Series Expression Session at Willowbank Raceway.
Willowbank Raceway continues to be Australia’s hub of drag racing activity, with the Kenda Tires 660 Drag Radial Series delivering up an event they’ve called the Expression Session – three huge days of radial tyre testing.
Blake Racing has one of the coolest sheds in Australian drag racing, with three front engine dragsters in their signature green colour schemes each waiting for their turn on the drag strip.
While event dates of September 19-20 had been previously announced by the Sunraysia Drag Racing Association for a round of the Summit Racing Equipment Sportsman Series, the ongoing nature of the COVID-19 pandemic and the need to provide whatever certainty possible for competitors has forced the decision to cancel the event.
Competition drag racing made a return to Australia with the fourth round of the Queensland Drag Racing Championships at Willowbank Raceway taking place on July 11, 2020.
Queensland’s Chemical Warfare Funny Car team have landed a sleek new Dodge Charger body to replace their confettied Chev Monte Carlo.
Queensland racer Neil Murphy spent his lockdown biding his time, as he patiently waited to test a new suspension system installed aboard his Comp Mustang.
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