Joe Bauer takes the Grand Champion Sword at Summernats 36 in his 18/71 Blown 604 cubic inch 1968 Dodge Charger “BLOWN RT” , and in true Grand Champion style leaves the Burnout Pad in style.
Author: Peter "Flinty" Flint
The Summernats Dyno record has been broken.
The Maatouks Racing-built VL Commodore, MAKDDY, took the record with an incredible 2,504rwhp from the boosted RB30/26 VL Commodore.
Running an astonishing 79psi and 11,000rpm the screaming combo punched out a series of runs in excess of 2,300rwhp with a best of run coming during qualifying.
Taking out the Overall Horsepower title along with the Boosted Six-Cylinder class trophy and the Boost Demon award for the mammoth 79psi.
Andrew Lynch (aka “The People’s Champion”) takes his first ever Burnout Masters win at Summernats 36 in his LS powered Corolla “LYNCHY”.
With two insane displays of wheelwork in the Masters Qualifying and Final, it’s easy to see why he took the win with full use of the Burnout Pad at speed, along with a consistent and solid amount of smoke..
Thomas Baz has built himself what can only be described as Australia’s Wildest Range Rover, and YES, it’s Built to Smash Tyres.
Running a Blown Injected 4.8L Cast LS, Turbo 400 and 9 Inch it will certainly make an impression at its debut next week at Summernats, and in front of a huge crowd will be smashing a set of tyres in the Wild Card shootout on Thursday afternoon with 30 other weapons.
Thanks to Thomas for sending the footage through of his test skid. With a few teething problems identified, mainly the rear brakes not releasing he now has a week to sort a few issues out before the Range Rover Sport takes to the big stage in 6 days times.
TAKING THE WORK VAN TO A BURNOUT COMP!!
LS1 COMMODORE “RUM LS1” AT BINDOON BURNOUTS
Benno takes to the Burnout Pad at Bindoon in his XD Falcon Street Car.
Check out the insane line-up for the Summernats 36 Wildcard Shoot Out.
If previous year’s Shootouts are anything to go by the Thursday Last Chance Wildcard is a definite highlight of the weekend, with all entrants displaying no Mechanical Sympathy in an effort to secure one of the remaining tickets into the Masters qualifying on Friday.
In just over 2 weeks the Street Machine Summernats Burnout Pad will be the place to be with another Insane line-up of Burnout Masters qualifiers assembled.
With 30 cars already qualified for the Masters, plus the winners from the Thursday Wildcard qualifier we’ll have nearly around 35 of the nastiest cars in the country vying for 1 of 10 spots into the Burnout Masters Final.
Burnout Masters Qualifying has been moved to Friday with the Finals now on Saturday afternoon in front of the expected huge crowd.
The Burnout Championship qualifying, and finals remain unchanged.
Beau Hinkley destroys a Junker LS1 at Narrogin Revheads in less than 10 seconds from the start of his qualifying Burnout.