Mildura comes alive with horsepower every Easter when multiple motorsports take over the regional Victorian city for the Easter Powersports Festival, and drag racing features with Atlantic Oils Sunset Strip hosting their premier event of the year, the Atlantic Oils Easter Supercharged Shootout.
More than 160 racers took to the Sunraysia Drag Racing Association’s Sunset Strip in Mildura on Saturday to undertake three rounds of qualifying for the Summit Racing Equipment Sportsman Series’ Sunset Nationals.
After reaching a personal racing career high of being the Decoglaze Glass Splashbacks Top Qualifier and Modified Runner-Up in Darwin, Ashley Johnson is hoping to go one better when the Summit Racing Equipment Sportsman Series hits Mildura’s Sunset Strip this weekend.
The jewel on Sunset Strip Dragway’s drag racing calendar is their Supercharged Shootout event, that is once again proudly presented by Atlantic Oils. The blown horsepower extravaganza is a feature of Mildura’s immensely popular Easter Powersports weekend, where the regional city embraces and celebrates motorsport across the whole Easter weekend.
The 400 Thunder Aeroflow Drag Racing Series for sportsman racers shifted gears to Mildura’s Sunset Strip last weekend, check out the class results and gallery.
The penultimate round of the 2022/2023 Summit Racing Equipment Sportsman Series, the Twilight Nationals, concluded in style on Saturday evening at Mildura’s Sunset Strip, setting the stage for what is sure to be an intense ANDRA Grand Final fight in just two weeks’ time (Perth Motorplex, March 4/5).
Des Woolstencroft will be making his comeback to the Summit Racing Equipment Sportsman Series next weekend for Mildura’s Sunset Strip Nationals – bringing to an end an 18-year absence.
With COVID matters out of the way, Mildura’s wildly successful Easter Powersports weekend is back next weekend as the regional city embraces and celebrates motorsport across the whole Easter weekend. Once again the Supercharged Shootout presented by Atlantic Oils at Sunset Strip will be one of the feature attractions with over 20 blown machines entered and ready to do battle.
Top Fuel on the eighth mile for the Burson Auto Parts Australian Top Fuel Championship was a smash hit for Mildura’s Sunset Strip, capped off with home town legend Phil Lamattina taking the win. Now check out our mega gallery.
Day one of the 2022 Twilight Nationals at Mildura’s Sunset Strip has hosted three action-packed qualifying rounds in hot conditions on Friday for what is the penultimate round of the 2021/2022 Summit Racing Equipment Sportsman Series, with one more round to be held Saturday ahead of what is expected to be a thrilling evening of racing.
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