Author: Shane Lawrie

PHOTO: David Turk PixelCulture.com In blistering heat, the 12th Make Smoking History Targa South West was dominated in all classes on Saturday as 40 competitors raced the clock along 117 competitive kilometres in Western Australia’s Southern Forest region.    Steve Jones and Caleb Ash in the Modern

Brodie turned around his worst qualifying effort to his best effort in the day’s second race to start seventh on the grid. Meanwhile, Will bettered his qualifying time by half a second, though it was only good enough for P19 on the grid.   The cars were lightning fast

  Now we all know they happen and there’s enough coverage by mainstream media about them to make it look like motorsport is a completely incident-filled atrocity that should be banned, we all know the incidents are pretty rare and when they do happen, highly trained people jump

Two years on from a two year hiatus the Junior Dragster category was full of talented youngsters vying to be on the top step at the WA Nitro Championships round. For Zara Board, in her My Little Pony adorned dragster, she had to take on three elimination rounds prior to

5.486 seconds is all it took for Andrew Katavatis to seal the BME WA Nitro Championship this year with his top speed 425.83. In a refreshing move he still slammed that “loud pedal” foot in hard and took off down the strip despite only needing to

Rubber melting temperatures greeted the early stages of the WA Nitro Championships at Perth Motorplex with the ambient air topping 37 degrees and the track heating up to above 50 degrees at the height of temperature readings. Jodi Thorstenson who is on her second event back since her wreck last

In a small hand-over ceremony at Sandown Raceway, long-time friends and legendary racers Dick Johnson and Larry Perkins, along with rising star Anton De Pasquale, came together for the handing-over of the number that Perkins used since the inception of his team, Perkins Engineering, in 1986. “When Anton joined

After 2 amazing rounds of the WA Outlaw Nitro Championship Series held at the Perth Motorplex, time has come to call it a day with the last round coming up on March 20th 2021. It’s an anything goes race, no holds barred, no handicap, first to the end

After a wet and wild November 2020 Nightmasters, the WA Sporting Car Club is ready for some fine weather for the March 2021 edition of the Nightmasters event. Despite the weather in 2020 the spectator parking areas were still well used and with the weather expected to be in the

With the summer rounds of Speedway heading towards a finish at Perth Motorplex, Ellenbrook Speedway has announced its 2021 winter calendar with 9 rounds of racing to happen between May and October.  Divisions include club divisions, late models, sprintcars, street stocks, productions, juniors, wingless and limited sprintcars. For full