Darwin turned on the heat off the track, Top Doorslammer and Aeroflow Outlaw Nitro Funny Car turned up the heat on the track, combine this with the ANDRA Sportsman Series and a packed Hidden Valley Raceway, Nitro Up North once again delivered spectacularly. Check out all the hot hot hot action in our monster gallery.
Across two huge days at the Hidden Valley Drag Strip, the NDRC Top Doorslammers provided an absolutely epic display of drag racing thrills for a packed crowd at LMCT+ Nitro Up North – the final event of their 2024/2025 championship season.
FUCHS Lubricants Australasia and Summit Racing Equipment are proud to announce they have come onboard as joint co-naming rights sponsors of the Australian drag racing legend as he embarks on his final two seasons of racing.
Lisa Gregorini will become the highest-ever finishing woman in the Australian Top Doorslammer Championship this weekend at Hidden Valley Drag Strip’s Nitro Up North event, the only question is — how high?
Nitro Up North, presented by LMCT+, is set to bring the thunder to the Hidden Valley Drag Strip this Friday and Saturday with an epic drag racing show for the ages.
Our final epic 2025 Winternationals gallery is here! Action shots, presentations, and everything in between — all wrapped up in one last drop. Photos by Cackling Pipes
Jeff Cutajar cut his first laps in the original and once world record holding Batmobile Top Doorslammer campaigned by Peter Kapiris. The car now owned by Jason Cunliffe has finally been returned to its former glory and active duty, with a best of 6.17 during testing yesterday that was found out to be run on just 7 cylinders.
Queensland budget racer Rob Harrington has capped off a stunning weekend to claim the 2025 Gulf Western Oils Winternationals at Willowbank Raceway over the Kings Birthday weekend.
The National Drag Racing Championship (NDRC) and the Gulf Western Oil Winternationals – the largest championship drag racing event held outside of North America – are set to bring no end of drag racing thrills to tens of thousands of drag racing fans across June 5-8.
It was twenty years ago this September that John Zappia stormed into the record books with the first-ever five-second Doorslammer pass on Australian soil — a 5.967 at Sydney Dragway that lit the fuse on a new era. Fast forward to the 2025 Nitro Champs, and Zappia was once again strapping into the Dananni Hotshots/Fuchs Monaro, ready to add another chapter.
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