27 September 2011

Veteran Melbourne drag racing competitor and official, Ian Smith has described his and son Warren’s win at the recent Fuchs Australian Nationals at Sydney Dragway as the highlight of the family’s almost 50 years in the sport.

A lifelong fan, Smith senior attended the first Australian Nationals at the now defunct Riverside strip in Melbourne in 1965, most likely with his now 48 year old son as a babe-in-arms.

27 September 2011

This weekend Palmrya Dragway is conducting its pinnacle drag racing event “The Sunstate Nationals” that hosts round two of the ANDRA Rocket Allstars Racing Series, plus an extra feature of this years event is Nostalgia Nitro cars doing match races on the Saturday.

27 September 2011

The 2011 Track Championship Series came to a thrilling end on Saturday night at Hidden Valley Drag Strip where the series came down to the final passes of the season.

Going into the start of the final event, the first and second place holders for both Modified Bike and Outlaw brackets were separated by only five points.

22 September 2011

Cory McClenathan driving one of Rapisarda Racing's team cars won the Fuchs Australian Nationals after his last two trips "down-under" only resulted with a single pass per trip.

Here is an overview of Cory's drag racing career to date:

20 Spetember 2011

The finale of the 2011 Track Championship Series at Hidden Valley Drag Strip is sure to see competitors pushing their vehicles to their limits as the points chase comes down to the final round of the year.

20 September 2011

ANDRA Pro Stock star, Shane Tucker, has revealed his amazing new Pontiac GXP weapon amongst a capacity crowd of cars and stars at Victoria's Calder Park Raceway as a part of the Monster Energy Ken Block World Tour.

"It was an amazing day," laughed Tucker.

19 September 2011

In his forty-first year of competition, Gary Phillips has put the nightmare fortieth season behind him by winning the Australian Nationals in Top Alcohol at Sydney Dragway last weekend.

Labelling last season as a “cocktail of shocking weather and bad luck that I would rather forget,” Phillips committed to going back to a known parts batch this season, and right from securing the second qualifying spot at the start of the weekend with a 5.540 at 256.45 mph, the Lucas Oils Racing Team was back in the form that had earned their fifteen national championships.

12 September 2011

My name is Bob Shepherd, the "¼ mile smile". After 46 years as a drag racer I am leaving the sport. I’ve run out of the kind of money it takes to run Top Fuel and I would like tell this story to thank the many people who have helped me to be the ¼ mile smile.

14 September 2011

The Pro Street drag racing world will be focused on Willowbank Raceway, when the Pro Street Shootout Grand Finals hit Queensland’s premier drag strip on Saturday September 17.

Drag racing is about eliminations well it seems Top Gear Australia (TGA) only got three passes down the track.

TGA season 4 has only aired three of their six show series with the final show opening with a well explained story on the challenging aspects of learning to drive a Dragster.

Top Gear Australia television program officially axed

14 September 2011

Maurice Fabietti has given the Holden Trade Club Top Doorslammer team’s Fuchs Australian Nationals campaign a pass following a first round loss at Sydney Dragway yesterday.

The Holden Trade Club Monaro underwent a major mechanical change over the short offseason with the fitting of a Lencodrive transmission that utilises a torque converter rather than a clutch.

13 Spetember 2011

Records were meant to be broken on the weekend as more track records tumbled at Hidden Valley Drag Strip.

After competing across Australia, Outlaw competitors Bronte Henning and Craig Davis both set personal bests at their home track in Darwin.

8 Spetember 2011

The penultimate round of the 2011 Track Championship Series at Hidden Valley Drag Strip is set to kick off this Saturday. With several well attended brackets going down to the wire, competition is set to be fierce with qualifying kicking off from 3pm.