The Golden States championships are a drag racing meeting at the Perth Motorplex featuring rounds of the ANDRA Pro Series Top Doorslammer and Top Bike championships. Over 2 days, around 250 drag racing teams hit the black stuff.



Jay Upton returned to form in Top Bike, running 3 passes below the national ET record over the course of the weekend and winning the final.



In Top Doorslammer, Maurice Fabietti debuted a new paint scheme promoting the new Holden Trade Club program and stunned the crowd by top qualifying with a 5.84 second pass. During elimnations, Ben Bray fronted up to the first pass against John Zappia and the pair ran one of the closest ever passes in the class with Zappia losing on the holeshot with a 5.83 second pass against Bray's 5.88 seconds. The final saw Robin Judd taking a 5.87 second win over Maurice Fabietti after Fabietti shut down on the start line.



You can check out all the photos from Qualifying on Friday here, and all the photos from the Eliminations on Saturday here.

Formula Tech Dyno Centre in Bibra Lake sponsor Whoop Ass Wednesdays at the Perth Motorplex. The Formula Tech Whoop Ass Wednesdays are open to street cars and bikes and all you need to enter is a roadworthy car, suitable helmet and a civil drivers license.



You can check out all the photos from the November 11th Formula Tech Whoop Ass Wednesday here.

Formula Tech Dyno Centre in Bibra Lake sponsor Whoop Ass Wednesdays at the Perth Motorplex. The Formula Tech Whoop Ass Wednesdays are open to street cars and bikes and all you need to enter is a roadworthy car, suitable helmet and a civil drivers license.



You can check out all the photos from the November 4th Formula Tech Whoop Ass Wednesday here.

The Perth leg of the ANDRA Pro Series Pro Stock Championship was held at Perth Motorplex on October 31st. This was the first time that Pro Stock had visited the Motorplex venue, and saw some of the quickest passes in the categories history, with John Barbagallo resetting the national ET record and Aaron Tremayne taking the win over Lee Bektash in the final with the pair also laying down the quickest paired pass for the category.



You can check out all the photos from the 2009 Perth Motorplex Season Opener, featuring the ANDRA Pro Series Australian Pro Stock Championship plus all the local categories here at HighOctanePhotos.com.

After a big weekend of Motorsport for Western Australia, where High Octane Photos covered the Fast Friday at the Motorplex, the Retro Fest for classic speedway and drag racing vehicles on Saturday and Sundays V8 Supercar racing at Wanneroo Raceway, I have uploaded a couple of photo previews to the site while I sort the full coverage.

You can find the Retro Fest preview at:
www.HighOctanePhotos.c...Retro_Fest

And the V8 Supercar preview can be found at:
www.HighOctanePhotos.c.../2009_V8SC

As we're in the middle of a fairly major server update, I'm holding back coverage of a number of events, as I expect to lose everything I upload until the update is complete.

In the meantime, I've uploaded a 119 photo preview of the coverage of the 2009 Golden States Drag Racing coverage, including ANDRA Pro Series rounds of the Australian Top Doorslammer and Top Bike Championships.

You can check out the preview here:
www.highoctanephotos.c...denStates/

And if the preview goes missing for a while, it probably means the server switch has happened, and I'll be thrashing away uploading coverage of the Whoop Ass Wednesday's from the 4th and 11th of November as well as the remainder of the Golden States photos.

I'm also holding back on putting up a proper link on this page to the photos from the 2009 ANDRA Pro Series Pro Stock round at the Perth Motorplex, but in the meantime, you can find the photos here:
www.highoctanephotos.c...um=14.html

The Perth round of the 2009/2010 ANDRA Pro Series Pro Stock championship has been run and won, with Aaron Tremayne taking the win over Lee Bektash after some awesome racing. In other classes at the meeting, John Zappia took a win over Andrew Minoque in Top Comp, Steve Flynn beat Dave Dequen in the final of Super Comp and Neil Anderson defeated Russell Cotton in Comp Bike.

A ful list of results and round by round eliminations can be found on the Perth Motorplex's website.

I'm currently working my way through almost 2500 photos from the days racing, but while I'm doing that, I've put up a small preview of the event here.

The Perth Motorplex hosted a midweek Test'n'Tune event on October 28th. The main reason for running this event was to allow the Pro Stock teams visiting for their round of the ANDRA Pro Series National Championship to get some track time before the event. In addition to the visiting drivers, a number of local teams were in attendance to complete licensing procedures and test their vehicles.



You can check out all the photos from the Pro Stock Test'n'Tune here.

Formula Tech Dyno Centre in Bibra Lake sponsor Whoop Ass Wednesdays at the Perth Motorplex. The Formula Tech Whoop Ass Wednesdays are open to street cars and bikes and all you need to enter is a roadworthy car, suitable helmet and a civil drivers license.



You can check out all the photos from the September 16th Formula Tech Whoop Ass Wednesday here.

The pre-season public Test'n'Tune at the Perth Motorplex is always a good indication of the upcoming season, and this years version was no exception. Almost 150 cars and bikes turned up, with 17 new drivers licensing vehicles.



The pre-season test'n'tune is always a good place to spot new drivers, new cars and new paint jobs. Dan Gregorini's Camaro debuted last season in unpainted form, and during the off season it received a coat of paint and some stunning artwork.



John Zappia has also been busy during the offseason, preparing a new Doorslammer. The Crusher is essentially a copy of the current Zaps Rat, with a few tweaks that should make this car very competitive out of the box.



You can check out all the photos from the 2009 Perth Motorplex Pre-Season Test'n'Tune here.

Photos from the first AutoTrader Fast Friday of the 2009/2010 season at the Perth motorplex are online now.



You can check out all the photos from the first AutoTrader Fast Friday here. The next AutoTrader Fast Friday is on November 20th.

Formula Tech Dyno Centre in Bibra Lake sponsor Whoop Ass Wednesdays at the Perth Motorplex. The Formula Tech Whoop Ass Wednesdays are open to street cars and bikes and all you need to enter is a roadworthy car, suitable helmet and a civil drivers license.



You can check out all the photos from the September 16th Formula Tech Whoop Ass Wednesday here.

Formula Tech Dyno Centre in Bibra Lake sponsor Whoop Ass Wednesdays at the Perth Motorplex. The Formula Tech Whoop Ass Wednesdays are open to street cars and bikes and all you need to enter is a roadworthy car, suitable helmet and a civil drivers license.



You can check out all the photos from the September 16th Formula Tech Whoop Ass Wednesday here.

The 2009 West Coast Burnout Masters were held on October 3rd, and saw George Separovich in NUTTR and Fred Watson in FEAR take to the pad as feature cars, while 40 entrants battled it out for the title.



Once the smoke had cleared, the clear winner was Jody Dunsford in his VE SS Commodore.



You can check out all the photos from the 2009 West Coast Burnout Masters here.

Formula Tech Dyno Centre in Bibra Lake sponsor Whoop Ass Wednesdays at the Perth Motorplex. The Formula Tech Whoop Ass Wednesdays are open to street cars and bikes and all you need to enter is a roadworthy car, suitable helmet and a civil drivers license.



You can check out all the photos from the September 16th Formula Tech Whoop Ass Wednesday here.