There was no shortage of incredible National Drag Racing Championship (NDRC) action on track today for what was the penultimate day of the Gulf Western Oil Winternationals at Willowbank Raceway – the season finale for the inaugural NDRC championship and also the Eastern Conference final for the Aeroflow National Sportsman Championship.
One of the most intense championship battles of the NDRC season to date has been the one unfolding in Top Doorslammer, with 11-time champ John Zappia and breakthrough rookie Russell Taylor trading wins and the lead throughout.
John Zappia endured a somewhat cursed Nitro Champs at Sydney Dragway, with his Dananni Hotshots/Fuchs Lubricants Monaro Top Doorslammer encountering problem after problem.
It is all systems go for the Gulf Western Oil Winternationals as the final stages of Willowbank Raceway’s track surface upgrades near completion.
Daniel and Lisa Gregorini enjoyed arguably their most successful event as a team, leaving Sydney Dragway’s Nitro Champs with a victory for Daniel and Lisa’s quickest ever time down the quarter-mile.
Lisa and Daniel Gregorini are fourth and fifth in the NDRC Top Doorslammer chase as the championship heads to Sydney Dragway for Australia’s biggest nitro-fuelled event, the Nitro Champs, across May 17-19.
The Gulf Western Oil Nitro Champs at Sydney Dragway this Friday, Saturday and Sunday will offer nothing short of an absolute nitro extravaganza.
As we eagerly await the resumption of the weather-delayed NDRC Nitro Champs, we’re revving up the excitement with a thrilling photo gallery that looks back at NDRC Riverbend Nationals. The event drew a massive crowd to Dragway At The Bend, so relive the action-packed moments in this horsepower-filled collection.
Turbos be gone. Jeremy Callaghan has ditched the twin turbo combo in favour of a blower bolted to a new Noonan bullet in his Camaro. Look out Top Doorslammer.
NDRC lead commentator Wade Aunger has released this fantastic insightful interview with Maurice Fabietti, owner of the AC Delco Slammer Drag Racing team and his driver Ronnie Palumbo about just what it takes to manhandle a Top Doorslammer on a quarter mile blast, not just physically, but mentally.
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