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While Peter Xiberras is awaiting his new dragster to arrive from the U.S. following his Summer Thunder event crash, the team have been busy repairing another chassis to race in the mean time.
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While Peter Xiberras is awaiting his new dragster to arrive from the U.S. following his Summer Thunder event crash, the team have been busy repairing another chassis to race in the mean time.

Outlaw 10.5 has been a little quiet of late but that is soon to change with Paul Aitkenhead’s awesome Holden Monaro being unveiled at ET Chassis and Race Cars in Queensland.

After a semi-final finish the at recent ANDRA Australian Nationals, Top Alcohol racer Jason Maggs will be heading to Adelaide International Raceway this weekend looking for continued racing success at the ANDRA Grand Finals.

When the Gulf Western Oil-supported Team Bray Racing hits Adelaide International Raceway this Friday and Saturday (31 March – 1 April), they will do so in pursuit of putting Benny Bray on the podium in the ANDRA Top Doorslammer title fight.

After a decade in the hard fought Australian Pro Stock scene veteran Lee Bektash recently announced he would be taking a break from the sport.

Jason Hedges Racing (JHR) are teaming up with Australian Pro Stock exports and current NHRA Pro Stock Team RTR Rob Tucker Racing for the upcoming Santo’s Super Thunder Event at Willowbank Raceway on April 14.

Bragging rights around the family dining room table will be on the line when Rapisarda Autosport International tuner duo, Santino and Santo Rapisarda Jnr, match race each other at the ANDRA Championship Grand Final at Adelaide International Raceway on March 31 and April 1.

RaceMAX Direct were proud to be associated with Tony Wilson Racing and their return to competition in the Modified dial your own bracket.

The first ever father-daughter combination in Australian Nitro Funny Cars begun in January at Perth Motorplex, with Emma Begley continuing her licensing at the event in Groove’n as father Anthony watched on closely, while also taking on driving duties in LA Hooker.

17 time Nationals winner Jim Read has been inducted in to the CAMS Australian Motorsport Hall Of Fame in a ceremony over the weekend.

Rob Taylor hit the track with his C7 Corvette doorslammer on the weekend at Sydney Dragway.

The Atura Blacktown NSW Championship Series returns to Sydney Dragway this weekend, with round 2 of the championship attracting a huge entry list.
In great news for Swan Hill Dragway, Swan Hill Rural City Council has announced they are fully funding the required repairs the track surface needs to return to racing at the new regional Victorian venue.

Rob Taylor has taken the wrap off his striking new wrap for the Taylor’s Motorsport C7 Corvette.

After rattling the cage with his breakthrough Super Stock win at the Westernationals, Allan Puglia has made noises of continuing his form at the ANDRA Summit Racing Equipment Drag Racing Grand Finals in Adelaide.

Warwick Dragway has extended its marquee yearly Dragfest event into a series of events, the first being last weekend. Check out the results and a bunch of photos.

Round 10 of the Summit Racing Equipment Sportsman Series was to be the event for some racers to close the gap in their chase for a championship. The predicted forecast of rain and winds only added more pressure to the racers and the Steel City club. It hasn’t been a kind season for the club with Mother Nature causing plenty of migraines.

It was a huge weekend for Sydney’s Frank Mamone, going through to the finals of a very tough Top Doorslammer at the 46th Westernationals.

You could say that Supercharged Outlaw racer Rodger Weste is feeling like a bull at the gate having been ready to go in his new racecar since last October.

Perth’s Alan Mahnkoph recently had a very successful outing at the 46th Westernationals picking up a win in the Supercharged Outlaws category, and his first gold ANDRA trophy.

The 2017 Australian Pro Street Association has launched into a new season, here is who won what following round one at Calder Park

The 2017 Queensland Drag Racing Championship at Willowbank Raceway is off and running to booming entries this year.

Peter Xiberras has wasted no time in replacing the PremiAir Racing Top Fuel Dragster that was destroyed in a fiery crash at the Santo’s Summer Thunder event in Sydney.

Despite the extreme heat at the 46th running of the Westernationals at Perth Motorplex on March 4-5, six new Group 2 records were broken.

Steve Aldridge and the Crown Security Top Doorslammer team have been showing potential beyond the capacity of their 20-year old ’55 Chev-bodied Murray Anderson chassis.

John Zappia claimed an unprecedented tenth ANDRA Top Doorslammer Series title with his Fuchs Holden Monaro on Sunday at Perth Motorplex’s Westernationals, adding to his record of dominance in one of Australian drag racing’s most competitive categories – and winning the Westernationals on his home turf was an added bonus.

The Aeroflow Outlaw Nitro Funny Car series has taken another enormous step as the entertainment-based tour now heading overseas with a visit to Meremere Dragway in New Zealand.

Team Bray Racing felt the heat at the weekend’s Westernationals (Perth, March 4-5) in more ways than one, but that hasn’t stopped them from feeling positive as they leave the venue to prepare for a busy month ahead.

As Willowbank Raceway prepares to celebrate the 50th running of the Winternationals (June 8-11, 2017), its management is pleased to announce the signing of Gulf Western Oil as the marquee event’s new naming rights sponsor.

It was another hot and humid day that greeted racers and fans for day two of the 46th Westernationals, however the action on the track was even hotter with John Zappia taking home another Top Doorslammer victory and more ANDRA gold.
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