7 JANUARY 2020 Motorsport fans and Perth Motorplex dig deep in bushfire appeal Perth Motorplex conducted a bushfire appeal at the Summer Slam and Funny Car Match Race on Saturday 4 January 2020 Mandogolup Volunteer Bush Fire Brigade attended the event with two fire trucks to raise money for families of volunteer firefighters killed on…
John Zappia clocked one of the quickest Top Doorslammer times in Australian history at Perth Motorplex on Saturday, taking victory in round three of the WA Summer Slam Series. Zappia knocked out a 5.585 second time in qualifying to set a new track record, eclipsing the previous best of 5.629 set by New South Wales’…
4 JANUARY 2020 Top Fuel Dragsters Return to Perth Motorplex Top Fuel Dragsters return to Western Australia by popular demand The announcement was made at the Summer Slam and Funny Car Match Race held on January 4th, 2020 It’s expected more than 10,000 people will attend the Perth Motorplex for the event on the March…
The current catastrophic fire situation sweeping the country has unfortunately put a halt to the phenomenal Aeroflow Outlaw Nitro Funny Car show due to hit Perth Motorplex January 4th, 2020. The Summer Slam event has been created with 10 Top DoorSlammers, 2 nitro funny cars and 7 nitro bikes. $1 from every ticket sold from…
MEDIA STATEMENT 2 JANUARY 2020 Aeroflow Outlaw Nitro Funny Cars unable to get to Perth Motorplex on Saturday 4 January due to bushfire road closures Closure of Eyre Highway due to Catastrophic fire conditions in the Norseman area has trapped Aeroflow Funny Car convoy on Eastern side of the blaze. Event will go ahead at…
Brandon Gosbell won’t be monkeying around with the competition as the Aeroflow Outlaw Nitro Funny Cars return to Perth Motorplex on January 4, 2020. Tasked with driving the 3000 horsepower Nitro Funny Car known as King Kong, Gosbell graduated from being a member of the Aeroflow pit crews to doing the steering himself. “I had…
John Zappia is three from three wins so far this season at Perth Motorplex after he claimed the victory at round three of the WA Drag Racing Championships on Saturday. Strangely, Zappia’s wins have come in three different categories including a Blown Alcohol exhibition at the season opener, the first round of the WA…
People have many different reasons for choosing to go drag racing, with some racers looking to scare themselves silly while others are driven by the competition. For Supercharged Outlaws racer Darryl Mullins it is more simple. “It is loud, fast and extremely addictive,” he said. Mullins has positioned himself strongly in the first part…
There’s a saying in life that you can be doing everything right, but sometimes the wheels just fall off. Modified drag racer Nick Panagopoulos was perhaps contemplating that statement after a bizarre final round of the WA Drag Racing Championships at Perth Motorplex. Panagopoulos had cut his way through the field to face Jim…
John Zappia took some convenient luck to win the opening round of the WA Summer Slam Series on Saturday at Perth Motorplex. After a supercharger backfire during qualifying, Zappia had to get his Holden Monaro Top Doorslammer back into racing shape for the first round of eliminations, where a 5.73sec. run earned him a finals…