Gallery: Brashernats 2024

Brashernats has long been Sydney’s premier burnout party and one of the biggest crowd-pullers at Sydney Dragway each year. The event began in 2013, inspired by a shed-warming party at burnout legend Mick Brasher’s house the previous year.

First published in the August 2024 issue of Street Machine

Since then, Brashernats has grown enormously, with this year’s go-round seeing 150 of Australia’s best skidders battling it out for a share of the massive $34,000 prize pool – and two coveted tickets to the Pro Burnout finals at Street Machine Summernats 37. Throw an epic show ’n’ shine curated by Chubby’s Garage into the mix and you’ve got a guaranteed good time.

Our ‘just send it’ award went to Thomas McManaway in his blown and injected Datsun 1200 ute, DATO KNG – that thing is just downright nasty! Unfortunately, his finals tilt didn’t go to plan, as he hit the wall and lost a little momentum, but what a handful of a car!

Brashernats has become so huge that this year the team added a test pad adjacent to the staging lanes, and a slalom course in the back corner of the main car park. The latter wasn’t anything you could really cut loose on, but both innovations helped keep the action going all day long.

The format for the burnouts entailed each contender getting a single qualifying skid, with the top 25 qualifiers then battling it out for top honours in the evening finals.

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Wollongong skid kid Jamie Carnage was a hot performer in his VY, which packs a Warspeed-built, blown and injected LS – by far the best-sounding combo on the day. Great wheel work, big smoke and a killer tune ticked all the boxes, and Jamie was seemingly the only LS competitor who could keep it off the limiter until the finish

The action on the pad was non-stop, and the judges had one hell of a job to separate excellent from awesome. You had to be so good to make the finals; there were plenty of drivers putting on extremely tough skids where a single mistake, or smashing only one tyre instead of two, saw them miss out.

Organiser Mick Brasher opened the finals with a high-intensity smoke-fest from his mighty Corolla. He had a lucky spectator on board who’d paid $3500 to score one of six burnout rides auctioned off for charity. It was a ripper skid, with Mick going so hard that he tagged the wall for the second time that day.

There were plenty of other stand-out performances, too, including a ripper effort by Steve Edsall in his XC Falcon ute, SKDUTE (above). Big revs, excellent car control and a gutsy tip-in saw him setting the bar for the finals.

Victorian Paul Cook also impressed in his BWLNVC Commodore (above), with a skid that seemed to go for 10 minutes. That blown big-block just sang its heart out from start to finish as Paul deftly steered it over every inch of the pad.

Jake Myers certainly brought his A-game to Brashernats. His iconic Mustang (above) is so skid-seasoned that it could almost have driven itself around the pad, and Jake ticked every box for the judges: revs, smoke, presentation, pad use, and keeping the car in clear view. But the standard was so high this year that even that wasn’t enough for the win, with Jake ultimately landing in third place, ahead of Steve Edsall in fourth.

Second place went to WA lad Chris Orchard, who has been on a hot streak of late. Chris had his GAME OVER VF on song as he blanketed the pad in tyre smoke while the blown 703ci big block combo screamed.

Riverina mechanic Robert Cottrell really knocked it out of the park in his LS-powered XD, 4DH8RS. Built by Albury’s Dewars Performance Engines, the blown and mechanically injected combo was on point, and Rob’s high-speed tip-in, great use of the pad and good smoke made him a stand-out

After an hour of mechanical mayhem that included blown-up engines, dented panels, crushed dreams and trashed cars, Victorian Rick Fuller put it all on the line in his seemingly bulletproof VK Commodore, LSONE, turning it on hard and fast from the outset. Great smoke and the thunderous roar of open headers were the accompaniment to a performance that saw Fuller cover every bit of pad real estate, including swinging the car around back up the entrance ramp. The judges were duly impressed, and Rick took home another first-place trophy to add to his already-enormous collection.

Brashernats 2024 was a fantastic day out, and rumour has it that Mick and the team will be putting on a second show on the October long weekend. Let’s hope so!