Kelvin Lyle is Western Australia’s latest Pro Slammer hero, winning East Coast Thunder in Sydney on Saturday – his first ever national victory.

Spinozzi Racing and their Speedmaster Chevelle achieved their best result yet in 400 Thunder Pro Slammer competition, reaching the semi finals of East Coast Thunder at Sydney Dragway on Saturday.

Adrian McGrotty got his 18/19 Summit Racing Equipment Sportsman Series Super Gas campaign off to a perfect start recently with victory aboard his Holden Commodore at the Sunset Strip Nats in Mildura.

John Zappia was left to rue what might have been at the second round of the 400 Thunder Pro Slammer Championship in Sydney on Saturday.

Drag racing may be considered an individual sport but people make the ultimate difference at MacLean Motorsport, who have just wrapped up almost two weeks of Pro Slammer testing and competition at Sydney Dragway.

Here are all the qualifying order and elimination ladders for the professional categories at East Coast Thunder.

Drag News Magazine editor Luke Nieuwhof was armed with his trusty Canon 7DII for East Coast Thunder and made the most of the colourful photo opportunities around the track. 

With Sydney Dragway’s East Coast Thunder now complete, Team Bray Racing is facing down a busy run to Summer with plenty of events on the docket between now and Christmas.

East Coast Thunder hosted a 400 Thunder Sportsman Series round for Super Stock, Pro Radial, Supercharged Outlaws, Super Sedan, Modified Bike, Super Gas and Junior Dragster. Here are the elimination results and video of the final rounds.

Australian NHRA Top Fuel star Richie Crampton is returning home to contest the New Year’s Thunder event at Willowbank Raceway, near Ipswich, Queensland, on January 5th.

First time winners in both Pro Alcohol and Pro Slammer were among the highlights of as East Coast Thunder wrapped up at Sydney Dragway on Sunday.

Mother Nature rarely let up during an exhausting day of qualifying at Sydney Dragway for East Coast Thunder, with extreme heat and then a storm combining to bring an early end to the day.

East Coast Thunder at Sydney Dragway is here and boy is it a hot one! We’ll be running some live updates for pro qualifying and eliminations as well as any other highlights or lowlights from the track on our Twitter feed.

If Jason Arbery can race to the Top Sportsman finals at South Coast Raceway’s South Coast Nationals event next weekend (November 10 and 11), it will make six straight finals’ appearances for the reigning champion and John Storm Memorial Award holder.

Drag racing is all about the sprint, but the week has been more like a marathon for Emilio and Adamo Spinozzi and their Spinozzi Racing team, who have completed five days of testing ahead of the second round of the 400 Thunder Pro Slammer Championship at Sydney Dragway this Friday and Saturday.

Rapisarda Autosport International have dropped a nitro surprise ahead of East Coast Thunder, breaking out a canopy-equipped Top Fuel dragster.

Top Fuel Motorcycle racer Jay Upton and team are headed back to Sydney Dragway for the first time since 2009 for this weekend’s East Coast Thunder.

Californian speedster Ashley Sanford will race with Rapisarda Autosport International team mates Wayne Newby and Damien Harris at the East Coast Thunder meeting at Sydney Dragway, November 2-3.

For Sam Fenech, the start of the new Pro Slammer Championship season has been interesting- to say the least.

Heading into next weekends East Coast Thunder championship drag racing event at Sydney Dragway, five-time Top Bike champ Chris Matheson finds himself in a somewhat uncomfortable position.

Despite everyone’s best efforts, completion of the penultimate round of the Atura NSW Championship Series at Sydney Dragway seemed doomed from the onset.