The double header at the eighth-mile Atlantic Oils Sunset Strip has left us with a third lead change for the overall honours at the top of the table, with Brandon Zito’s twin turbo, small-block Chevy LC Torana now at the top of the tree.

Margins were bloody tight after a hectic night of racing the day before, and we’re in much the same situation now. Brandon’s 5.01@145mph was just enough to eek out a margin over Mark Drew’s LX Torana who handed in a 5.35@146mph, the gap between the two sitting at a measly 0.152.

While we saw a stack of four second passes at Portland a few days prior, only Jason Kenny in the LS1PWR VN Commodore could lay claim to knocking out a four second ET from the two days at Mildura. He ran a sweet 4.97@143mph, which put him back inside the top ten.

Speaking of, the top 10 overall is made up with heavy representation from the Hare & Forbes Machineryhouse Radial Blown entrants, save for Alon Vella’s Capri from PowerPlus Fuels Outlaw Blown and Brad Schreiber’s VB Commodore from the lead of the PSR 8.5 index class.

It’s not just overall results that’re tight, with plenty to play for across our 10 classes on the final day today back at Dragway at The Bend. Just 0.09 margin is between the top four runners in the PSR 8.5 index class, with Dave Carnell’s HQ One Tonne ute leading the charge in the battle for consistency.

In the PSR 8.5 index class, 0.344 separates first placed Brad Schreiber’s VB Commodore and Chris Imlach’s turbo LS Chevy Nova.

Less than half a second splits the top two runners in Speed Pro Six Cylinder, Anthony Spadavecchia’s Barra-powered XW ute just edging out Mark Mills LH Torana by 0.472.

Bruce Howie had a counterpunch in the Unrivaled Engineering Stick Shift class, laying a sweet 6.62@106mph in the nitrous XL ute. He closed the gap to class leader Zane Heath and his G3 WRX STi hatch, which ran a 6.55 on Friday but a 6.91@110mph yesterday to leave 0.129 gap between the pair.

Back to PowerPlus Fuels Outlaw Blown, Stephen Micallef’s HSV Maloo ute is keeping class leader Alon Vella honest for top brass, just 0.237 margin with a 5.23@140mph to Alon’s 5.37 at Mildura to claw back some of the gap.

The day wasn’t without casualties, one being Aaron Hamilton’s Intech SOHC turbo six-powered XD Falcon, which split a transmission case. Larrissa Franke had to withdraw her 400kW, aspirated Boss V8 XR8 Falcon from Kemppi Australia Radial Aspirated.

We’re back at Dragway at The Bend today for the final day of racing for Drag Challenge ’25, so come on down for a cracking day of racing and watch all the drama unfold by grabbing tickets at dragchallenge.com.au