The Red CentreNATS brought the biggest drag racing show ever to Alice Springs Inland Dragway across September 2-4, hosting the Burson Auto Parts Australian Top Fuel Championship, the ADRC Top Doorslammers and over 100 Heavy Hitter racers, as well as grudge runs and competition for the RCN Grand Champion.
It is with great regret that Top Fuel has decided to postpone its Summernats Slam event scheduled for October 1 and 2 at Heathcote Park Raceway. There are a number of factors behind the decision, including heavy wet weather experienced in the last month, with even more forecast for the next couple of weeks leading to the event.
Hydraulink Jim Read Racing will have to wait until November to find out if it will be crowned as the victors of the opening round of the 2022 Burson Auto Parts Australian Top Fuel Championship, with unseasonably cold conditions at Alice Springs Inland Dragway on Friday evening forcing the postponement of the final runs to November’s Goldenstates event at the Perth Motorplex.
PremiAir Racing and the rest of the Burson Auto Parts Australian Top Fuel Championship field will have to wait until November to find out who will be crowned as the victors of the opening round of the 2022 season, after the finals at Alice Springs Inland Dragway were called off due to unseasonably cold weather.
The fastest drag racing series in the country, the Burson Auto Parts Australian Top Fuel Championship, demands an award as spectacular as the racing it serves up each round. When Top Fuel Australia’s Nathan Prendergast reached out to the Sainty Family late last season to ask if they could name the championship in Stan’s honour, the wheels quickly began turning.
The biggest drag racing show Alice Springs has ever seen wowed race fans with a huge one-day program on Friday 2 September before unseasonably cold conditions saw the action draw to a premature close late in the evening with the finals for the Burson Auto Parts Australian Top Fuel Championship and the ADRC Top Doorslammers postponed to future events.
The new Burson Auto Parts Australian Top Fuel Championship season will see FUCHS Lubricants – the world’s largest independent lubricant manufacturer – continue their support of Lamattina Top Fuel Racing.
Peter Xiberras and the PremiAir Racing Top Fuel team will make their debut at Alice Springs Inland Dragway this week as the back-to-back and reigning Burson Auto Parts Australian Top Fuel Champions begin their title defence.
Rapisarda Autosport International has confirmed plans to race at all rounds of the 2022-23 Burson Auto Parts Australian Top Fuel Championship.
This Thursday and Friday (September 1/2) the largest drag racing event ever seen in Alice Springs will descend on Alice Springs Inland Dragway (ASID) to kick off the Red CentreNATS festival.
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