Street Machine Summernats - the Grand Champions

Presenting the honour roll of Street Machine Summernats Grand Champions!

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THE Street Machine Summernats Grand Champion award is the premier award at Australia’s biggest and most prestigious event for modified cars. Prior to Summernats six, the award was known as Top Street Machine Overall, before it was revamped as the sexier-sounding Grand Champion. Regardless, the concept has remained the same – finding that car that is not only technically proficient, but also popular and a driver.

To win, you need to accumulate the most points from the judging, the People’s Choice and driving events. No mean feat and that simple idea that at street machine should be able do more than just look good under lights has thrown up plenty of wild card over the last 30 years. So here they are, the top cars from the past Street Machine Summernats. We’ll find out who is added to that list at the next Summernats in 2023.

SUMMERNATS People’s Choice  Grand Champ  Top Judged
1988 1  Greg Carlson  Rob Beauchamp  Rex Webster
1989 2  Howard Astill  Rob Beauchamp  Scott McLachlan
1990 3  Ron Barclay  Rob Beauchamp  Ron Barclay
1991 4  Leo Janssen  Howard Astill  Howard Astill
1992 5  Bill Neskovski  Howard Astill  Ron Barclay
1993 6  Con & Vic Elfes  Peter Fitzpatrick  Peter Collier
1994 7  Craig Christensen  Brain Willis  Frank Rejtano
1995 8  Brian Willis  Dennis Laing  Frank Rejtano
1996 9  Peter Fitzpatrick  Peter Fitzpatrick  John Riskas
1997 10  Ron Zelukovic  Howard Astill  Ed Brodie
1998 11  Ed Brodie  Peter Fitzpatrick  Mark Jones
1999 12  Troy Hillier  Peter Fitzpatrick  John Portelli
2000 13  Mark Jones  Shane Burcher  Howard Astill
2001 14  Peter Fitzpatrick  Anthony Fabris  Darryl McBeth
2002 15  Drago Ostric  Peter Fitzpatrick  Mark Jones
2003 16  Ben Gatt  Mark Course  Rod Hadfield
2004 17  Anthony Sant  Drago Ostric  Anthony Sant
2005 18  Gary Myers  Gary Myers/Dave Ritchie  Gary Myers
2006 19  Aaron Fitzpatrick  Aaron Fitzpatrick  Bruno Gianoncelli
2007 20  Joe Agnello  Zoltan Bodo  Bruno Gianoncelli
2008 21  Joe Lore  Rob Godfrey  Ditch Jones
2009 22  Joe Lore  Darrell Leemhuis  Darrell Leemhuis
2010 23  Graeme Cowin  Joe Lore  Graeme Cowin
2011 24  Peter Fitzpatrick  Peter Fitzpatrick  Peter Fitzpatrick
2012 25  Ben Sargent  Ben Sargent  Leisa Chinnock
2013 26  Mick Fabar  Mick Fabar  Mick Fabar
2014 27  Terry Mourched  Henry Parry  Leisa Chinnock
2015 28  Nathan Borg  Nathan Borg  John Saad
2016 29  Grant Connor  John Saad  John Saad
2017 30  Simon Mokdassi  Mark Williams  Peter Hinz
2018 31  Dave Xuereb  Grant Connor  Grahame/Colin Barker
2019 32  Dave Wilson  Rick Werner  Robert Zahabi
2020 33  Gareth Lougher  Todd Sorensen  Charles Harley
2021 Summernats Slam  Jonathan Danaskos
2022 34  Marcus Nikolic  Jason Mansweto  Trent Carter

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