The acrid tyre-smoke fills your lungs… The sweet, sweet methanol burns your eyes…
The molten rubber sticks to your skin, turns you as black as the bitumen while the hot mid-day sun melts you.
The explosion of tyres, the scream of blowers, the unmistakable roar of the mighty V8 engine…
The crowd ...

Every chance you get, make your way to a burnout pad, a drag-strip, a race track, and experience all the methanol-fuelled testosterone that a V8 generates. Long after the event is over, the smell of the fuel, the taste of the smoke, the noise, the excitement… They all linger!

Then there’s ‘Grunt...

When a car-show becomes an icon, a household name, then it becomes more than a car-show.

Summernats has achieved this and more…

Every January the pilgrimage is on to the Nation’s capital, Canberra, home of one of the world’s most prestigious car-shows… Summernats.

Sure there’s the dyno and all...