Look at the latest car build to roll out of the world-famous championship-winning chassis shop of RJ Race Cars and Quarter-Max. This stunning new Pro Boost 2022 Chevy Camaro was custom built for Roderjan Busato’s MRB Motorsports Team.

Under the hood, you’ll find industry-leading FT fuel injectors with FuelTech EFI and data system to manage the Procharged Hemi built by ProLine Racing. Behind the engine will sit an M&M transmission and torque convertor to transition all that horsepower back to the rear end.

Local racer Phil Lamattina snapped an 18-year losing streak when he defeated Rapisarda Autosport International star Wayne Newby in the Burson Auto Parts Australian Top Fuel championship final at Sunset Strip Dragway, Mildura.

The Carrot King’s last win was in March 2014 at the Perth Motorplex.

“This is one of the best wins in my career, and I might add its been a long time coming.” Said Lamattina. “To take three wins from three starts, you've got to really take your hat off to our tuner Aaron Hambridge and the crew. Racing in my hometown and with many friends and family watching on was a real thrill. In the final, I just tried to blank it all out and to take the win was a very emotional experience.”

Newby's teammate, Damien Harris, having not raced since January 2020, outgunned reigning Oz champion Peter Xiberras to secure third place.

Few people knew Sunday during the Amalie Oil Gatornationals just how special the moment was for Tripp Tatum to advance to the Top Fuel final round against fellow independent team owner Doug Foley. 

It was the first time each of them had reached the “money round.” One year after Josh Hart served notice that he would become part of the championship conversation (and a model for the sport’s business-to-business opportunities) by winning the 2021 Gatornationals on his first outing in a Top Fuel dragster, the Top Fuel class would have another first-time winner. 

But for Tatum, it went beyond that. 

Foley’s crew chief is Aaron Brooks, who is respected throughout the nitro pits. And Tatum offered some insight after defeating Brooks and Foley with a 3.700-second elapsed time and 330.31 mph on the Gainesville (Fla.) Raceway 1,000-foot course. 

The noise was deafening for Matt Hagan, and it wasn't coming from his 10,000-horsepower Dodge Funny Car.

Just moments before his crew fired the engine, Hagan was strapped in and ready to race against final round opponent Blake Alexander at the NHRA Gatornationals in Gainesville, Fla. when the voices fired up in his head.

"I was up there going, 'Don't think about it, don't think about it. You need to win, but don't think about it," Hagan recalled. "It's just one of those things when it just happens, it happens, and it becomes natural. You just go up there, and it's like putting an old shoe on, and you just do what you're supposed to do. You know you've got a good car underneath you, and you know you've got the parts and pieces that TSR supplies."

This was no ordinary race for Hagan, who had never won the NHRA Gatornationals. He'd been close but never sealed the deal. 

Never in the Constant Aviation Factory Stock Showdown racing history has there been so many nitro crew chiefs standing on the starting line. Thus was the case on Saturday, at the NHRA Gatornationals, following two days of continuous torrential rainstorms.

The tuners wanted to see not how well the factory-built race cars would perform as much as they were eager to see how well the Safety Safari pulled off what many had deemed an impossible task. 

When the top eight qualifiers in the Factory Stock Showdown opening session ran under the national record, they went scurrying back to their pits with a clear idea where to turn the wrenches. 

Between the Pep Boys All-Star Call-Out and the falling temperatures Saturday at cold, damp, windy Gainesville Raceway, Top Fuel qualifying for the Amalie Oil Gatornationals gave the Camping World Drag Racing Series some stunningly thrilling and stunning shocking results. 

In a weekend that was geared to salute the class’ Elite Eight racers in an $80,000-to-win shootout, three of them didn’t make the field because of the one-and-done nature of qualifying. And the No. 1 starting spot went to an independent owner-driver who entered ranked 16th in the standings and was making just his 12th appearance in Top Fuel competition.

Funny Car champion Jack Beckman always has said that “from burnout to turnout, you have no friends on the racetrack.” 

And Robert Hight said Saturday evening after securing the Funny Car class’ No. 1 qualifying position for the Amalie Oil Gatornationals that track temperature is the real foe.