Street Machine Australia — June 2017

NEWS FRONT

JUNE 2017: ALL THE NEWS THAT MATTERS

STORY ANDREW BROADLEY PHOTO RYAN ANNEAR

W

E MAY have only just fully

recovered from the record-

breaking horsepower party

that was Summernats 30, but

Summernats 31 will be upon us before we

know it, and early indications are that it’s

going to be a beauty!

More then six months out from the event,

the Summernats office has been a hive of

activity, processing no less than 600 pre-

entries! If you’re quick, you can still get yours

in for only $150 before the 1 June price rise.

When you consider that’s a mere 10 bucks

more than a general admission season pass,

you’d be mad not to.

Meanwhile, the Burnout Masters field is

starting to take shape, with almost half of the

qualifying events having been run and won.

From the Summernats 30 Burnout Masters,

we have reigning champ Steve Nogas in

KILLA-B, along with Leigh Mackenzie in

LUXURY, Rick Fuller’s LSONE, Colin Byrne

in SEWERSIDE, and the people’s champ,

Andrew Lynch in his infamous LS-powered

Corolla, LYNCHY.

From the Burnout Championship at

Summernats 30, Anthony Page gets a

start in PAGEY, along with Tim Brown’s

CEMBLO, and Peter Grmusa’s newest toy,

the F-DIS F100.

We’ve got Gazzanats WA coverage from

page 50 of this issue, with the qualifiers

from that event being Matthew James

in UNWANTED and Matthew Hughes’s

MON5TA.

Lardner Park Motorfest saw Justine Mott

in GEMSKID and Fred Watson in FEAR

get the nod, while Sam Surace qualified in

his MADSAM Capri at the Big Skid $10K

Burnout Classic.

Most recently at Burnout King at the Perth

Motorplex, Kevin Mantach in ALCOTRAZ,

Matthew Purnell in BLACKOUT, and Jason

Tanian in KENOATH all added their names

to the list.

There are still plenty of opportunities to

score a Burnout Masters berth, so for your

chance to bang tyres with the best in the

business at Summernats 31, get along to a

qualifying event, and bring your A-game! s

MASTER BLASTER: Matt

Purnell qualified for the

Masters at Burnout King

at Perth Motorplex. We

threw Matt a notepad

and got him to do our

write-up on Gazzanats;

check it out on page 50

BURNOUT MASTERS

QUALIFYING EVENTS

11 Jun*

BRASHERNATS

Sydney Dragway, NSW

29 Jul

TROPICAL MELTDOWN

Cairns Speedway, Qld

12 Aug

BURNOUT OUTLAWS

Sydney Dragway, NSW

19 Aug

GAZZANATS DARWIN

Hidden Valley Raceway, NT

1-3 Sep*

RED CENTRENATS

Alice Springs, NT

14 Oct

BURNOUT ALLSTARS

Queensland Raceway, Qld

4-7 Jan*

SUMMERNATS 31

LAST CHANCE WILDCARD SHOOTOUT,

Canberra, ACT

*Televised event

THE YEARN TO BURN