2021 was another challenging year in drag racing, but the Queensland Drag Racing Championship at Willowbank Raceway did run to a conclusion, with this year’s Track Champions crowned after the finale.
The penultimate event of the Queensland Drag Racing Championships at Willowbank Raceway succumbed to the weather gods around the second round of the predominately Chicago Shootout event format.
Round five of the Queensland Drag Racing Championship ran relatively smoothly to completion as the series heads for the finish line when a new batch of Willowbank Raceway Track Champions will be crowned.
Willowbank Raceway bagged round four of the Queensland Drag Racing Championship pleasantly without the interruptions from weather and COVID matters as the series reaches the half way point.
The latest round of the Queensland Drag Racing Championships at Willowbank Raceway was effectively a rescheduled round of the wash out in round two. With perfect weather on offer, it looked like a perfect day’s racing was ahead, that was until the Queensland Government dropped a COVID-19 related bomb on the event, announcing a strict lockdown would be enforced from 4pm that afternoon.
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.
The Queensland Drag Racing Championships saw their penultimate round take place at Willowbank Raceway on October 17, 2020.
Willowbank’s sportsman racers turned out in force for the fifth round of the Queensland Drag Racing Championships at Willowbank Raceway on August 8, 2020.
Competition drag racing made a return to Australia with the fourth round of the Queensland Drag Racing Championships at Willowbank Raceway taking place on July 11, 2020.
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