
TBR train rolls on after Sydney show
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.
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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.

A marathon week of professional class testing has concluded at Sydney Dragway ahead of East Coast Thunder, and it has only intensified the Pro Slammer battle.

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.
Team Bray Racing will be looking for not only victory but also improved personal bests at Sydney Dragway’s East Coast Thunder this weekend (November 2-3).

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.

The Aeroflow Outlaw Nitro Funny Cars delivered one of their trademark shows at Willowbank Raceway on October 27, 2018.

The Western Australian drag racing season has begun with an exhibition at the Shannons Powerpalooza at Perth Motorplex.

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

Check out a cool gallery shot by Nathan Berridge from the recent Mallee Shootout at Swan Hill Dragway.

With the new season about to begin in WA, I thought some spare time on a Sunday might be well spent going back through some old photos and checking out the season opener from 15 years ago at Perth Motorplex.

Following four years and six podiums with the ‘Bumblebee’ Aeroflow Outlaw Nitro Funny Car, Queensland’s Jake Donnelly will hang up his nitro Helmet after the upcoming Aeroflow Outlaw Nitro Funny Cars event on October 27 at Willowbank Raceway to pursue the 400 Thunder Professional Series in Pro Alcohol.

Sighted recently on the shores of Sydney Dragway has been this twin turbo Chrysler SRT 300C punching out low 9 second ETs.

Maurice Allen is set to compete in the NHRA on a Pro Stock Motorcycle at Charlotte’s Zmax Dragway this weekend.

While the arguments about Australia’s quickest street car rage on beside how long a piece of string is, you can’t take anything away from the phenomenal performance Frank Marchese from Dandy Engines has achieved with ‘FAIRXW’.

JSS Racing have unveiled their new Sam Fenech-driven Camaro Pro Slammer with a three year major sponsorship deal from Lloyd’s Classic Car Auctions.

The Atura NSW Championship shifted into round six and is heading for the finish line with just two rounds to go before Sydney Dragway’s 2018 track champions are crowned.

PAC Peformance has defeated Gas Racing in an epic Gulf Western Workshop Wars finale at Sydney Dragway.

Jeremy Martin’s Holden VB Commodore became a crowd favourite underdog at No Mercy 9 on the weekend, one of the world’s biggest radial tyre races.

Dallas, Texas has become the adopted home for Australian businessman and Pro Stock racer Shane Tucker. He has built a successful commercial façade business, Auzmet Architectural, just minutes from the ever expanding Dallas skyline.

Qualifying is complete for most classes at the world’s biggest radial tyre race, No Mercy 9, with Australian teams putting in strong performances over the week so far – including two more three second cars.
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