Buoyed by the imminent return of championship drag racing to Melbourne, the Victorian Drag Racers Club (VDRC) has donated a set of vehicle scales to the Australian National Drag Racing Association's Victorian/Tasmanian division.
ANDRA Championship Drag Racing makes its long awaited return to Australia's sporting capital with the Fuchs Nitro Thunder presented by Crow Cams at Calder Park Raceway on Saturday, 19 October.
Team Bray Entertainment's new 1963 DEWALT Corvette burnout car is now tried and tested ahead of its upcoming official Mount Panorama debut later this week, thanks to Sydney Dragway's Burnout Mania.
Ben Bray completed four burnout sessions in his new machine in front of delighted spectators at the Labour Day event which doubled as a test opportunity for the car ahead of its performance debut at this year's Bathurst 1000 (10-13 October).
Joining in the fun was lucky spectator Adam Woodyatt who won the rare chance to go for a ride with Ben during one of the sessions. Also taking to the burnout pad in the passenger seat across the day were TBE team members Graeme Frawley, Anthony Vloedmans and Richard Smith.
Calling all racers attending the Nitro Thunder event at Calder Park Raceway: sign 2 helmets donated by Motorsport Connections to support Victorian Drag Racing.
These helmets will be used to commemorate the re-opening of ANDRA pro series Drag Racing in Victoria and will be auctioned off with all proceeds going to the Victorian Drag Racers Club and South Coast Raceway.
In recent times the Victorian Drag Racers Club (VDRC) has donated time and a brand new set of scales to ANDRA and Calder Park Raceway. Proceeds from the auction one of these helmets will be donated back to the club.
Just days remain until Team Bray Entertainment's Ben Bray will unveil his new 1963 Corvette burnout and drift car to the world with an explosive week of action.
Starting with Monday 7 October, 'the kid' will be on-track for Sydney Dragway's second annual Burnout Mania, performing exhibition burn-outs in the afternoon while taking a lucky few crowd members for a spin.
From there, it will be on to the hallowed ground of Mount Panorama for the Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000, where Bray and his new machine will make up one third of TBE's burnout show as part of the event's official on-track entertainment program.
When ANDRA championship Top Fuel drag racing returns to Melbourne on October 19 for Fuchs Nitro Thunder presented by Crow Cams it will see a first time driver making his competition debut when John Lamattina rolls on to the track.
John, brother of 2009 ANDRA Top Fuel champion Phil Lamattina, has spent recent months earning his Top Fuel licence, already clocking an impressive personal best time of 4.67 seconds at a top speed of 505kph.
The Wemen, Victoria-based carrot farming family is now feeling the excitement of fielding two state-of-the-art dragsters with a little bit of sibling rivalry thrown in for good measure.
In what can only be described as a game changing moment, Darwin Pro Stock Motorcycle rider Scott White scored one of his biggest drag racing career wins at the recent Lady Daly Hotel Springnationals.
The Springnationals featured the fifth round of the ANDRA Pro Stock Motorcycle Championship, and as such all the heavy hitters were in the Adelaide International Raceway pits.
White qualified second and then went on to defeat Glenn Wooster, Maurice Allen and Phil Howard in eliminations to earn his second ANDRA Pro Stock Motorcycle victory and 107 valuable points.
“I’m very, very pleased with the results,” said White. I knew a win was coming and felt confident that this could be the weekend.