
RESULTS: Nostalgia and Wild Bunch bring the noise at South Coast Raceway
The Wild Bunch and Nostalgia tag team rolled into South Coast Raceway last weekend setting up a great combination for regional events.
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The Wild Bunch and Nostalgia tag team rolled into South Coast Raceway last weekend setting up a great combination for regional events.
After a grandstand finish to the 2017 ATURA Series, it would be hard to imagine that the 2018 version could be any more exciting – but nothing could be further from the truth.
Van Dyk Racing says it is extremely thrilled to announce its new marketing partnership with crypto start-up company, PLAAK, in what is believed to be a world-first for drag racing and a first for Australian motorsport across the board.
As the penultimate round of the 2017/2018 Summit Racing Equipment Sportsman Series, the Perth Motorplex’s MacTrack Westernationals event (March 3 and 4) is attracting racers from all across the country.
Clay Millican became the quickest Top Fuel driver in the world over the weekend with an astonishing 3.628 second run over 1000 feet. While the Tennessee native is a gun driver, he will happily tell you that the brains behind the performances come from his crew chief – Australian expat David Grubnic.
Kelvin Lyle has been one of the breakout drivers of the 2017/18 season at Perth Motorplex, moving into the points lead of the Direct Mining and Industrial Summer Slam with some strong performances in recent events.
With a name like ‘Rude Stude’, perhaps the struggles of Shane Catalano and his Studebaker Top Doorslammer make sense.
2018 marks the 25th year of racing for Mark Allan in a career that started all the way in back in 1993 as a 9 year old boy racing Junior Dragster.
“Mad” Mark Hinchelwood’s crazy “turbo with an altered attached” is well remembered as he car that set AA/MA national records – well look out, he is coming back with a new car.
John Faraone might run WA plates but sightings of his Valiant Charger on its home soil are rare, especially at the track.
WA’s Streetbuilt Racing has unveiled a cool new radial tyre drag racing weapon to take on the beasts from the east.
Wayne and Lisa Keys have unveiled their brand new Chev Camaro AA/AP and Top Doorslammer out west.
Top Fuel drag racer Rachelle Splatt dropped a surprise today, revealing she has just licensed to drive a jet car.
An Australian company has been quietly proving themselves under the bonnets of some of the world’s quickest four cylinders.A new world record for all wheel drive four cylinders was set in Orlando, Florida last weekend with a billet engine block from SA firm Bullet Race Engineering.
Former Australian Top Bike champion Chris Porter has announced he will be taking a break from the sport after the loss of major sponsor Fraser Motorcycles.
Looking for some reading material? We’re going back through our archives and uploading some free back issues of Drag News Magazine.
Frankie ‘The Madman’ Taylor has signed on for more Australian drag racing with Team Bray Racing.
In pictures – all the action showcasing Sydney Dragway’s Summer Thunder
When Darren Nichele took out the Top Sportsman victory at the recent South Coast 660, he achieved a lifelong dream – taking home a ANDRA Christmas Tree.
Very sadly yesterday, popular Queensland Super Street racer and former National Champion Terri Sander lost her long battle with cancer.
Watching a nitro dragster live isn’t for the weak – or the distracted!
Paul Carey is set to begin licensing a new Top Alcohol Altered next month at Perth Motorplex.
Scott MacLean endured a tough Santo’s Summer Thunder event at Sydney Dragway in the fourth round of the 400 Thunder Pro Slammer Championship. The rollercoaster of emotion began before the event, with the team’s private testing on the Wednesday not going to plan thanks to car-damaging tyre shake that left MacLean stunned at its ferocity.
Top Bike rider Adam Layton had a huge weekend at Sydney Dragway during Santo’s Summer Thunder on January 19 and 20.
The 400 Thunder Pro Slammer championship battle has continued between John Zappia and Paul Mouhayet as they went toe-to-toe at Santo’s Summer Thunder in Sydney on Saturday, January 20, 2018.
Looking for some reading material? We’re going back through our archives and uploading some free back issues of Drag News Magazine.
It was a fine balancing act for current 400 Thunder Top Bike Champion Chris Matheson at the Santo’s Summer Thunder event at Sydney Dragway.
She’s the quickest woman on the world in two wheels – it’s Sydney’s Niki Zakrzewski and she tells us all about her fast progression in the sport, from mid life crisis to life at over 200mph aboard a nitrous-guzzling Suzuki in issue 29 of Drag News Magazine.
The seventh round of the Summit Sportsman Series brought 170 racers to Portland on January 20, 2018 in what was the biggest ever event for the regional Victorian drag racing venue.
Sydney Dragway’s Santo’s Summer Thunder saw Team Bray Racing and the rest of the Pro Slammer field feeling the heat, with the temperature hitting 41 degrees on Saturday.
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