The Good Fella's Hot Rod Club's Yanchep Run is an annual event, and entry is restricted to Hot Rods, Customs and early Street Machines. The run finishes at the Yanchep Inn, at the Yanchep National Park, north of Perth. This is always a relaxed day with a very impressive selection of machinery.

You can check out the photos from this years Good Fella's Yanchep Run here.

The second event I covered this weekend was the opening night of the Perth Motorplex's National Open drag racing season. A massive 217 cars entered for this event, including 19 SuperCharged Outlaws and 9 Top Comp cars. Lindsay Catalano returned to racing after spending a large portion of last season rebuilding the car to work with the new rules, which now allow SuperCharged Outlaw sedans to run 6.50 seconds. Lindsay's opening pass was a 6.765, and by the end of the night the team had run a 6.531 second pass. Rob and Jackie Pilkington's Monte Carlo bodied Funny Car was ready for action, after the team licensed the car late last season, and Rob got the car down the quarter mile in 6.003 seconds on his last pass of the night, winning the Top Comp B Final in the process. Junior Dragster was an all girl final, with Amy Kennedy taking the win over Nicole Adamos.

You can check out all the nights racing here.

What a weekend, 3 days, 3 events to cover, and I'm only just starting to get a chance to sort and upload some photos. The first event this weekend was the opening AutoTrader Fast Friday at the Perth Motorplex on Friday night. A huge field of cars and bikes turned up for a chance to get some laps under their belt and to compete in the elimination rounds. For some it was also a chance to get some last minute testing done before the opening round of the Motorplex's National Open season the next day.

All the photos from the Fast Friday can be found here.

Tonights Whoop Ass Wednesday saw a full field of 180 cars and bikes hit the drag strip, and plenty of Speedway competitors take to the tracks for some more practice before the opening Fast Friday of the season this week.

You can check out the photos here.

The 2007 WA Hot Rod show is currently on at the Burswood Dome, I was there yesterday and was very impressed with the standard of entries and displays this year. If you're not doing anything today, you've got until 4pm to get down to the Burswood Dome and check it out.

Photos from the show can be viewed here.

Tonight was the first Whoop Ass Wednesday of the season to feature off-street drag racing and speedway practice. This was also the first chance for many speedway drivers to get onto the Kwinana clay this season. About 180 cars and bikes turned up to head down the drag strip tonight, and the speedway pits were overflowing as well.

The photos can be viewed here.

SupraWA held a dyno day today at InTune Performance, 20 cars turned up, mostly A70 and A80 Supras, but a couple of Soarers, a 200SX and an RX7 also went on the dyno.

Highest score of the day went to Jason's black 2JZ-GTE powered JZA80, with 613.4hp at the wheels. The highest score for a 1JZ-GTE was 363.4hp by Nathan's MZ20 Soarer.

You can check out the photos here.

As last weeks Mystery Monday was rained out, the Motorplex postponed the event until this week. This time round, the weather was perfect, the track was awesome, the only thing missing was drag racers (which meant more runs for those who did show, with some drivers getting in 15+ runs during the night)

The photos can be viewed here.

Armadale Auto Parts have been running their open days for a few years now, and todays was the biggest yet. Over 200 street machines, hot rods and customs turned up to enjoy the perfect weather.

Check out the photos here.

Tonight was the second running of the Motorplex's annual Burnout Masters event. Over 40 entrants turned out for the first of the Motorplex's three round Burnout series, which also includes Motorvation in January and the Good Friday Burnout King event.

In addition to seeing 40 of Perth's best burnout drivers, spectators also were treated to demonstration burnouts from Fred Watson, Debbie Gray and Peter Gray.

Once the smoke had cleared, reigning Good Friday champion Chris Michel (Wild LH) took home the winners trophy from Earl Salter (Ferral).

You can check out tonight's photos here.

Tonight's Whoop Ass Wednesday at the Perth Motorplex was cut short by rain, but while the track staff were hard at work trying to dry the track so that racing could continue, spectators were given a bit of a treat with one of the biggest burnout fields ever seen at a Whoop Ass Wednesday, including a "small" skid from Burnout champion Peter Gray. Many of the burnout drivers in attendance tonight were giving their cars a final shakedown before Saturdays West Coast Burnout Masters, while some took the opportunity presented by the rain delay to head to the Snake Pit for the first time.

You can find the photos here.

The first outing for dedicated race cars at the Perth Motorplex for the 2007 / 2008 season was the official pre-season Test and Tune held on October 6th. This was a chance for new drivers and new vehicles to license, for already licensed drivers to shake down their cars and bikes before the first National Open of the season, and for the rest of us to check out all the new cars, faces and paint on the scene for the new season.

New cars debuting included Frank Taylor and Al McClure's Funny Cars, Tony and Gillian Argentino's "The Hitman" Supercharged Outlaw Sedan, Jess Harper's new Dragster and the Chapman Brothers' new Mustang. Nick Gairdner unveiled his new "flat black" paint job (with a hint of safety orange)

About a hundred other cars and bikes were out running laps and getting some track time. You can check out all the action here.

Last nights Whoop Ass Wednesday at the Perth Motorplex was sold out by about 6:30pm, and was a busy nights racing. A couple of oil downs during the night kept the track crew busy and meant that management decided to extend racing past curfew to make up for lost time.

Check out the photos here

Dirty Deedz Racing has recently purchased a rolling chassis from the east, and plan to go racing in Supercharged Outlaws some time this season. The car has previously run in the 7.80 area on the east coast, and will be running a BBC and 8/71 combo. Look out for more photos of the car on this site as the build progresses.


Check out the photos here

After two weeks of wet Wednesdays, tonight saw the first running of a Whoop Ass Wednesday for the 2007/2008 season at the Perth Motorplex. The rain still made it's presence known, but at least tonight it waited until everyone had gone home.

Over 180 cars and bikes came through the gates tonight and you can check out their photos here.