GALLERY: 2019 Atura NSW Championship Series Rd 6
Racers battled high winds but conquered the sixth round of the Sydney Dragway track championship series in an entertaining day of sportsman racing.
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Racers battled high winds but conquered the sixth round of the Sydney Dragway track championship series in an entertaining day of sportsman racing.
Emilio Spinozzi has been making more test runs than almost anyone else in the Pro Slammer field ahead of he and brother Adamo’s sophomore season in the 400 Thunder Professional Drag Racing Series, which begins on November 1 and 2 at Sydney Dragway’s East Coast Thunder event.
Australia has never seen an event like the Aeroflow World Fuel Altered Challenge. In this special issue of Drag News Magazine we speak with the brave drivers behind drag racing’s wildest machines – the AA/FAs! Ron Hope, Randy Bradford and Brian Hope discuss their Australian journey and just what makes cars like Rat Trap and Pure Hell so amazing to fans.
Western Australian Super Sedan racer Andy Kahle is building a radical new drag car with a great cause in mind.
Jamboree Australia Pty Ltd and Swan Hill Dragway have both agreed that the Melbourne Jamboree at Swan Hill Dragway on November 16/17 will not go ahead due to issues with the racing surface.
Adelaide International Raceway is getting some much-needed love for its top end safety barriers.
A new 400 Thunder Top Fuel season is right around the corner and there are some changes and shuffling afoot among Australia’s fastest drag racing teams.
Noonan Race Engineering has a reputation for delivering the ultimate in billet performance for racers across the world, and that passion comes from the drag strip. Jamie Noonan watched his father John drive a Top Alcohol Dragster in Australia, learning the secrets of horsepower.
Pro Alcohol has turned up a ten car field for the opening event of the 400 Thunder Professional Drag Racing season next weekend, let’s take a look at who could lead the charge this season.
Victorian drag racer Matt Czerny is hard at work on a new project, a sweet looking Holden panel van.
Driving a jet dragster is just like taking off in a commercial flight, only a whole bunch faster according to West Australian drag racer Ian Wood.
Australia’s biggest drag racing event is set to get even bigger with the 2020 running of the Gulf Western Oil Winternationals expanded to five days.
Drag racing is full of amazing stories, but the tale of a jet dragster clocking over 400kmh in an Australian mining town might be one of the best.
The Australian National Drag Racing Association (ANDRA) has welcomed the lifting of the suspension of Junior Drag Racing in Western Australia, announced by The Honourable Minister for Sport and Recreation, Mick Murray.
Australian drivers Jamie Noonan and Shane Tucker both made it through the first round of competition at the NHRA Carolina Nationals at Charlotte’s zMAX Dragway.
The live event arm of the Street Outlaws juggernaut toured into Palm Beach International Raceway, Florida for the penultimate round of the No Prep Kings series.
Noonan is a name associated with many Top Alcohol teams, supplying cylinder heads and engine blocks for much of the fields world over, but the company’s owner Jamie Noonan is no stranger to racing himself.
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The second round of the 2019/2020 400 Thunder Sportsman Championship was held at Willowbank Raceway on October 5, 2019, bringing title chasers from several states as well as some pro testing.
Palmyra Dragway hosted the third and final round of the 2019 Summit Racing Queensland Championship at the weekend, with more than 100 racers taking part in the October 5 event.
Well-known and respected Australian Top Fuel crew member Ben Patterson has signed up to be part of the PremiAir Hire Racing team.
There’s a wild new Ford Barra-powered Holden Torana almost ready to hit the drag strip in Western Australia.
As the 2019 Summit Racing Queensland Championship heads to its exciting conclusion this weekend (Saturday October 5) at Palmyra Dragway, defending Super Street title winner Brett Kelly is once again leading the way in his category after taking victory at the last round.
Half a dozen years ago, Canberra’s Rick Chilton had new Bob Book engine power. In qualifying for the 2013 Winternationals he went from the outhouse to the penthouse after dropping a 7.001 at 195.59mph. The personal goal of the team’s first six second pass seemed tantalisingly close.
Thanks to snappers Joe Maday and John Bosher for providing this bonus gallery of the action from the Aeroflow World Fuel Altered Challenge.
The Hidden Valley Track Championship Series has reached its penultimate round, here are the results and gallery thanks to Craig Radcliffe Photography.
No less than five national records were reset at the weekend’s Sunset Strip Nationals, hosted by Mildura’s Sunraysia Drag Racing Association across September 21 and 22.
Third generation drag racer Britney Olive is following in the footsteps of her family, turning a childhood spent watching the track at Sydney Dragway to an adult life racing on it. She’s our cover racer for this variety-packed issue of Drag News Magazine.
Pro Stock is getting a much needed injection of new blood this season with Darryl Stephen revealing a two car team.
Australian drag racer Jarrod Wood has shown off his brand new Radial vs The World Corvette for the first time.
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