With just two Top Fuel Motorcycles at the event it would be a dual between two potential five second quarter mile challengers.
Australian Pro Stock’s newest racer, Mario Polito made his long-awaited debut at the uber-successful Gulf Western Oil Nitro Thunder round on Saturday, May 8 at Sydney Dragway. While the Sydneysider didn’t score any round wins, the game-plan for the weekend was simply about taking the JD Concrete-sponsored Chevy Cobalt to half track.
Steven Reed’s affliction of good results at Sydney Dragway continued with the Allstar Batteries Pro Alcohol funny car winning over a stellar field of racers, while Justin Walshe starred with a alky altered world record.
January 2020 was the last time professional drag racing fired a shot in anger in Australia, as the 2021 Gulf Western Oil Nitro Thunder event restarted the longest championship series in history. The event was the penultimate round of the 400 Thunder championship for all brackets ahead of next month’s Winternationals and Mother Nature wasn’t going to let drag racing off easy with its comeback.
After a three year hiatus from the sport allowing Pro Alcohol racer Darren Fry to work on growing his fabrication business – the Dazza’s Steel Fab race team is ready to debut a whole new look.
Gulf Western Oil Nitro Thunder has roared into life at Sydney Dragway as the venue celebrated it’s re-opening after a 14-month championship break from professional level racing.
The popular Kenda Tires 660 Drag Radial Series has turned into a real radial racing showcase in Australia and each event out does the previous in improvements and innovations as the scene head on a steep upward trajectory. Testimony to this is amount of investment dollars being thrown into the scene to compete by racers right now, with some phenomenal machinery now on track and coming in the future
It has been rough time post-COVID for the return of the Queensland Drag Racing Championship at Willowbank Raceway. Rain has washed out two of the three rounds including the last which barely started eliminations before the dreaded wet stuff fell on the venue.
A Pro Extreme and Pro Stock exhibition featured at Sydney Dragway’s revamped 2021 Atura NSW Championship Series as sportsman racers racked up early points for their respective track championship brackets.
Drag racing has finally returned to the Top End post-COVID after an 18 month break with the running of the first round of the track championship.
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