{"id":7637,"date":"2026-06-08T23:31:43","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T23:31:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nitrofccanada.com\/?p=7637"},"modified":"2026-06-08T23:34:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T23:34:16","slug":"xpro-nitro-from-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nitrofccanada.com\/?p=7637","title":{"rendered":"XPRO Nitro from Australia!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Fuel Funny Car class highlights from Australia\u2019s single most famous annual event – the 58th running of the Gulf Western Oil Winternationals – from Willowbank Raceway Queensland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A blazing XPRO Nitro Funny Car finale has packed house on its feet!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Adam Murrihy and Josh Leahy well and truly delivered an A-Final worth waiting for in XPRO Nitro Funny Car, putting on a true flame-throwing show down the Willowbank Raceway quarter-mile with a brilliant side-by-side event concluding run.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All the way from the Northern Territory, Murrihy was in the box seat to take his first ever NFC win after having been on a charge all weekend long, but it was Leahy who would ultimately lift the NDRC Gold Christmas Tree thanks to his 4.030\/439.71kph effort over Murrihy\u2019s 4.248\/456.81kph result.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Josh Leahy<\/strong> drove his Rocket Industries Mustang to a huge win for NDRC’s Gulf Western Oil Winternationals.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Making the win even more impressive for Top Qualifier Leahy (4.007 secs) was the fact that he is under the weather this weekend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt is the Winternationals, baby! It doesn\u2019t matter if you are sick in bed, you get out here so you can be part of moments like this. I am literally lost for words,\u201d an emotional Leahy said after pausing to collect himself upon climbing out of the car.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI can\u2019t thank the team enough \u2013 all the race shop boys putting in the hard effort, Graham, Wendy, Morice; they\u2019ve given me this opportunity. And my mum, dad, and family for supporting me in doing this. Never in a million years did I think I would be holding this Gold Christmas tree at the Winters in an XPRO Nitro Funny Car. It is more than a dream come true.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Independent racer Adam Murrihy<\/strong> had a superb R\/UP placing for the Winternationals event.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The B-Final win went the way of Damon Paton (6.354\/171.06kph) after a full-track pedal fest for both he and his opponent, Justin Walshe (8.010). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Damon Paton<\/strong> won the event’s B-Final driving his slick new look XTR-presented Toyota.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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The C-Final saw Morice McMillin take on the newest XPRO Nitro Funny Car racer Luke Shepherd, with what had already been a challenging weekend for the reigning champ (round one shutdown on the line due to oil leak, round two hit a timing block) continuing in his final pass. What started out as a staunch run ended with him crossing the centre line and mowing down a few timing blocks, handing the win to Shepherd who was off the throttle early.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It was most certainly an unexpectedly troubled weekend for normal XPRO Funny Car powerhouse Morice McMillin<\/strong>!<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Posted with files by Amanda Salmon & Bruce Biegler<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Photos by Bruce Biegler<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Link to more XPRO Nitro FC photos from NDRC Winternationals contained to our LMLCMedia photo gallery:  HERE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Fuel Funny Car class highlights from Australia\u2019s single most famous annual event – the 58th running of the Gulf Western Oil Winternationals – from Willowbank Raceway Queensland. A blazing XPRO Nitro Funny Car finale has packed house on its feet! Adam Murrihy and Josh Leahy well and truly delivered an A-Final worth waiting for in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[173,9],"tags":[192,180,57,179],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nitrofccanada.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7637"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nitrofccanada.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nitrofccanada.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nitrofccanada.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nitrofccanada.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7637"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/nitrofccanada.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7640,"href":"https:\/\/nitrofccanada.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7637\/revisions\/7640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nitrofccanada.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nitrofccanada.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nitrofccanada.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}