Events
From Street Machine Summernats to the SEMA Show in Las Vegas, the Street Machine team is on the ground providing the best coverage of car events on the planet
SAINTY TOP FUEL TEAM CRACK THE THREE-SECOND ZONE
The Sainty Top Fuel team dip into the threes with their self-designed and built Aussie V8
Mark Whitla’s big-block Ford Capri
Mark Whitla's Capri is back for a crack at Drag Challenge Weekend 2022 - here's how he went at the main event in 2019
Fuchs Adelaide Auto Expo 2019
What do you get when a shit-ton of top car shows and expos are rolled together? Fuchs Adelaide Auto Expo - the top reason to drop revs in SA
Jason Ruby’s 1990 Nissan S13 Silvia – Drag Challenge profile
Having run a PB of 8.20@166mph in the lead-up to Drag Challenge 2019 and won no prep events like Tunnel Vision’s King Of The Streets against big-inch turbo V8s, Jason Ruby’s Nissan S13 Silvia had plenty of nervous street machiners keen to see what it could do in the Turbosmart Outlaw Blown class
Kai McPhee’s turbo LS-powered VC Commodore – Drag Challenge profile
Kai's 5.3-powered VC went toe-to-toe with the big blocks and came away with runner-up spot in Haltech Radial Blown and a place in the 7-second club at Drag Challenge 2019
Jay Robinson’s turbo 13B-powered Mazda Capella – Drag Challenge profile
THE only rotary competitor at Drag Challenge for the past two years, Jay Robinson was back with his turbo 13B-powered 1977 Mazda Capella, and for 2019 he’d moved to the new Tuff Mounts 235 Blown class
Paul Turner – Drag Challenge profile
Paul Turner takes out the super-competitive DYO class with his 11-second HQ - on his first attempt
Nathan Ghosn – Drag Challenge profile
Sydney racer Nathan Ghosn was a participant at Street Machine’s first Drag Challenge and has participated in every DC event since
Mark Busscher – Drag Challenge profile
Mark ‘Bushy’ Busscher landed his first win in the Carnage Outlaw Aspirated class at Drag Challenge 2019 behind the wheel of his matte-black HQ One Tonner, edging out Daniel Cassar’s ’33 Ford coupe
Alon Vella – Drag Challenge profile
Drag Challenge 2019 saw Alon Vella continue his dominant run in the Pacemaker Radial Aspirated class, taking out yet another gong in his hairy Mk1 Capri
Szabolics HQ Monaro runs 6.654-seconds @214mph
Daniel Szabolics has set a scorching new PB in his twin-turbo HQ Monaro
Brendan Cherry’s twin-turbo, big block VL Calais – Drag Challenge 2019 runner-up
Drag Challenge original Brendan Cherry nails second outright at our sixth event in his big-block, twin-turbo VL Calais
Barra-powered Ford Cortina wins Six-Cylinder class at Drag Challenge 2019
George Lyras’s Barra-swapped Cortina showed its merit, winning the XR6 Turbo Developments Six-Cylinder class on debut
Future burnout records iced as Guinness pulls sanction
Emissions fears may put an end to a modern Summernats classic
Harry Haig at Drag Challenge 2019
The Big Dawg finally gets a well-deserved win
Jake Edwards – Drag Challenge profile
Jake Edwards brought his famous SL/R Torry back to run in Turbosmart Outlaw Blown for Drag Challenge 2019
Phil Edmondson – Drag Challenge profile
South Australia’s Phil Edmondson had a massive lead-up to Drag Challenge 2019, switching his XB coupe’s exhaust from running one big single turbocharger to a pair of Precision 7875 snails
Aaron James – Drag Challenge profile
There's something of a sad story behind Aaron James’s 1970 Valiant Regal
Todd Foley – Drag Challenge profile
Melburnian Todd Foley has suffered some of the worst and enjoyed the best of Drag Challenge over the years
Turbo small-block Chev-powered LH Torana at Drag Challenge 2019
Luke Green resisted the LS temptation in favour of a small-block Chev in his Torana, and was rewarded with eight-second ETs at Drag Challenge 2019