A&M Motorsport

02/02/2024

Everyone is out for a piece of the $20,000

The 2024 HVDRA Calendar is now out.

Featuring a $20,000 💵 Round one in May!
Stand by for further details.

📸 Photo by Ed Foreman HighRPM

29/01/2024

The cruelty of Motorsport.

From the highs to the lows this sport can throw at you.

Not many people would know that on Saturday the 20th of January we attended the test day ahead of this weekends Australia Day event.

After ironing out a few issues from the Festival State Nationals we were eager for some track time.
Our only pass of the night lit the score board up with a 5.874 at only 208 mph. Because of early shut off, Matt rolled off the throttle after the car went into top gear and the chutes were slowing the car down at 5.3seconds.
Looking at the data and the time card we realised what that run could have been. The incrementals showed what could have been a very low 5.70 and even at best a 5.68.

Going into the Australia Day National Matt and the team were quite excited. With 5 days to over look the car and make a few minor tweaks, it’s safe to say we were looking forward to Friday afternoon.

The way our Friday Qualifying session unfolded was in no way what the team had expected. Matt got into a terrible crash, the car is in far from good shape but Matt made it out of the car under his own power and that is all that mattered in the end. We can’t thank the members of other race teams, track crew, ambulance, fire response team and the doctors and staff at Westmead Hospital for keeping Matt safe.

Looking forward at the rest of the season and year. We will focus on getting Aidan’s funny car running consistently back home in Darwin.

News to come with the ALL COAST HIRE / East Coast L***s Mobil 1 1957 Chevrolet Bel Air…

17/01/2024

Come see the A&M Motorsport team race at the Australia Day Nationals 20th birthday of Sydney Dragway!

Awesome field of 10 Top Doorslammers & massive Group 1 fields including Top Fuel, Pro Alcohol, Pro Mod, Pro Stock, Pro Stock Motorcycle & 200+ sportsman racers

Buy tickets now https://tickets.oztix.com.au/outlet/event/b0768cfa-ffc0-468e-868a-d9561615839b

NDRC - National Drag Racing Championship
Top Doorslammer Australia

Stone the crows… The wildest nitro show on earth is coming to fire up your Australia Day long weekend as Top Fuel rocks Sydney Dragway. Struth! Get ready for a HUGE nitro party with the country’s fastest cars over two massive days and nights, with a line-up that includes a mega firework spectacu...

24/12/2023

Merry Xmas to my friends and family!
Only Xmas tree we have in the house and yes I know it’s not mine, had to borrow it off Aidan!

25/10/2023

2023 Spring Nationals Wrap up

The Bend what can you say “first class facility”

Starting the weekend off with what can only be described as a completely untested car. following repairs to the 4-Link after The Red Centre Nats, Matt was unsure of how the car would react. Starting with a low 6 second pass with an early shutoff to test the new parachute location with early incrementals to run 5.8 second pass the team were off to a good start.

The weather conditions for Saturdays qualifying were trying to say the least, the Top Doorslammer Association making the decision to make the mid day test session qualifying session one as the wind and cold conditions were expected to worsen as the day went on.
With this in mind we kept a very similar tune up from Friday nights test pass, knowing that run would’ve been somewhere in the Low 90s to mid 80s. The car launched a little slower than expected with improved track conditions but still marching on to a 5.88 second pass.

With the loss of a few cars to the weather and track conditions qualifying had to be cut short for all categories, leaving T/D with only the one qualifying session.

Raceday began at an earlier time but with overcast conditions all morning the track was still cold. Round one matched the all coast hire 57 against Peter Kapiris in the Bat mobile “Saratoga” knowing what Petes team are capable of we couldn’t go in without improvement. The all coast hire 57 was expected to go into the low 80s or even into the high 70’s, we were no match for Kapiris running 5.79 to our improving 5.86.

Round 2 being the quickest loser of the previous round gave us a solo pass in an uneven field. Knowing we needed to run in at least in the top 4 of the round to have a chance at making the B final we looked to improve on the 5.86. Knocking the 60 foot time down was the main goal of the pass after both previous passes being in the 1.01-1.00 range. That goal was achieved with a 0.976 60 foot time, the car was on another 5.8 pass at 3.9 seconds the motor shut down and the car coasted to a 6.62, good enough to make the B final.

Going into the B final with a short turnaround and with no time to repair what turned out to be a damaged Liberty 5 speed gearbox our team new we were up against it facing off against Peter Kapiris again things didn’t look so good for the all coast hire 57. Launching in second gear and 5th gear failing to engage a rev limiting 6.115et was not going to be good enough against Pete’s 5.87 and we ended up in 4th place for the event.

As a team we couldn’t be more proud of what we accomplished this weekend, This car hadn’t made a complete pass since the crash at the Western Nationals in March last season. There has been so many changes to the team and program in that time as-well as lots of hours in just repairing the car.

We can’t think our sponsors enough for the help to make this possible and bring on the rest of the 2023-2024 NDRC Doorslammer Championship.

All Coast Hire
Mobil 1
East Coast L***s
The Blacksmiths Inn
Speed Torque

22/10/2023

What a day we have ahead of us here at Dragway at The Bend

Don’t forget you can watch live and free on 7plus from 12.45pm ACDT.

21/10/2023

Q1 at the Spring Nationals

Starting the weekend strong Matt went 5.88 at 233 mph

Tough conditions sees us currently in 4th position.

20/10/2023

The Bend Dragway testing.

Kicking the weekend off with a 6.17, Matt pulling the chutes early crossing the line at 211 mph

We have a racecar again.

10/07/2023

Aidan Abel has a long history in the Summit Racing Equipment Sportsman Series, racing in the Summit Racing Equipment Junior Dragster bracket for eight years from the age of eight to 16.

14/06/2023

14/06/2023

Nitro Up North display at the Coolalinga Tavern