When the first three second radial tyre drag racing was made in Australia, targets quickly changed to the first 200mph run – but few would have predicted a driver with less than a dozen runs on a radial would be the one to make history.

Following a fantastic day one of qualifying for more than 150 racers in Mildura, the stage is now set for a full day of racing at the 2019 Sunset Strip Nationals.

Wade Wagstaff has continued to lay down the most impressive runs ever seen in Australian radial drag racing, setting a new record and taking out the Kenda Outlaw Radial Friday $5k.

Super Gas racer Renee Cockerill has selected this weekend’s Sunset Strip Nationals event as her comeback to the Summit Racing Equipment Sportsman Series after a number of years away.

Super Street racer Luke ‘Tex’ Griffiths will be making his comeback to national ANDRA competition at this weekend’s Sunset Strip Nationals (September 21 and 22). 

Vlado Turic heads to next weekend’s Sunset Strip Nationals – round three of the 2019/2020 Summit Racing Equipment Sportsman Series – fresh from back-to-back finals appearances at the opening two rounds of the current season.

Cheyne Phillips, the son of Australia’s most successful Pro Alcohol drag racer Gary Phillips, has finally made his first runs in a blown alcohol dragster.

Australia’s Richie Crampton has taken victory in the opening event of the NHRA championship countdown, defeating Doug Kalitta in an all-Kalitta Motorsport final round of the Mopar Express Lane NHRA Nationals presented by Pennzoil at Maple Grove Raceway.

Rapisarda Autosport International’s 2019 U.S. Nationals campaign ended in the first round of eliminations at the hands of highly fancied Texan Billy Torrence.

The 65th edition of the Chevrolet Performance NHRA U.S. Nationals was an event full of promise for Australian Shane Tucker and his Auzmet/StructGlass Chevrolet Camaro Pro Stock team.

Round two of the 2019 Summit Racing Queensland Championships has been run and won at Benaraby Raceway on the weekend (August 31).

The season has not gone as planned for Shane Tucker, driver of the Auzmet/StructGlass Chevrolet Camaro. A new engine program brought along some growing pains, which the team worked through at the beginning of the season.

Reigning Summit Racing Queensland Championship Street title holder Sarah Langridge will lead a three-car team to Gladstone’s Benaraby Raceway for round two of the 2019 Series.

One of the world’s sweetest radial cars is on its way down under with Perry Bullivant announcing he has purchased the ‘Serial Killer’ C7 Corvette of Ken Quartuccio Jr.

The promoters of the Darwin Supercars event have announced that next year’s Darwin Triple Crown event will combined with Nitro Up North drag racing at Hidden Valley.

Rick Gauci and the Nitro Express ’57 Chev Aeroflow Outlaw Nitro Funnycar won another Rocket Trophy after a dominant performance at Springmount Raceway last night. Eleven AONFC teams rocked into Springmount to put on a show in front of another huge Far North Queensland crowd at one Australia’s newest Drag Racing facilities.

Nothing but blue skies, sunshine and smiles as the 2019 Garrett Advancing Motion Brisbane Jamboree took to Ipswich’s Willowbank Raceway this weekend. With over 180 of the country’s fastest sports compact cars it was the place to be for racers and spectators alike resulting in some of the biggest crowds Jamboree has seen in recent years.

The battle for the 13B record, which has developed into one of Australian drag racing’s hottest rivalries right now, has seen another turn as Pac Performance took back the title from Steven Barnett on Sunday at the Brisbane Jamboree.

Steven Barnett’s Jamboree campaign did not start off the way he would have liked after putting his Mazda 6 into the wall on the first day of testing, but his fortunes have turned around big time.

Joe Gauci has made his first test hits, dialing in his spectacular new purpose built radial Mustang ahead of Radial Riot.

Long time Sydney racer Peter Byrne has teamed up with John Gauci for a crack at Supercharged Outlaws after Gauci purchased Rob Coote’s beautiful supercharged altered earlier in the year.

Another turbocharged Pro Mod is heading for Australian shores, with the ex-Jose Gonzalez ‘Eleanor’ Shelby GT500 Ford Mustang on its way for the world’s fastest DJ, Carl Cox.

With the Brisbane Jamboree coming up this weekend, racers have been getting an early look at the track through testing. Here’s some of the action so far!