Victorian Craig Geddes is no stranger to winning events, the Group 2 Super Stock and Competition Eliminator gun for over two decades has now set his sights on the top tier of aspirated drag racing – Pro Stock.
Coming hot on the heels of Damien Harris’ back-to-back wins in his Atlantic Oils-sponsored RAI Top Fuel Dragster, the Burson Auto Parts Australian Top Fuel Championship is proud to announce that Atlantic Oils have joined as naming rights sponsor of Top Fuel Slam. The good news doesn’t end there though, with Atlantic Oils also taking on naming rights of the ADRC Pro Stock Championship and sponsorship of the Supercharged Outlaws category at Sydney in January.
It has only been a couple of months since Nino Cavallo devastating accident in the Pro Stock final of the 2022 Winternationals, but the team are well on the way to making a comeback to the track.
In exciting news, Australia’s Pro Stock racers will joined the Australian Drag Racing Championship (ADRC) alongside Top Doorslammer and Top Fuel Motorcycle, running at select Burson Auto Parts Australian Top Fuel Championship events around the country.
After the Gulf Western Oil Nitro Champs, Victorian Rob Dekert has established himself as the new threat in Pro Stock, setting the bar for the class’s unleaded fuel era.
“This is all for my wife” were words from Nino Cavallo following his emotional win over Rob Dekert in Pro Stock at Nitro Thunder.
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.
The Unique Racing team are have used the COVID period to update a number of things on the Rob Dekert driven Pro Stock Pontiac GXP which includes a fresh look and a new engine for 2021.
The planned debut of Australian Pro Stock Championship points frontrunner Wayne Daley’s new Diamond T Custom Toolboxes Dodge Dart has been delayed by the unfortunate COVID lockdown enforced cancellation of Willowbank Raceway’s Apex Epoxy Flooring Super Thunder this weekend.
Australian Pro Stock has always been just a little bit different from its cousins in the USA and Europe.
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