00:00Engines could be heard echoing across Alice Springs all weekend, burnout competitions
00:09drawing in crowds, keen to watch tyres spinning and smoke filling the night sky.
00:15The street parade was also a favourite, with more than 500 cars and bikes taking part.
00:19It's good fun and it's our home country town, so yeah, it's good to see all this and yeah.
00:26My favourite thing is just the V8s, I love the V8s. I don't know, it just makes me happy.
00:32This year also brought big news off the track, organisers confirming the event is locked in for another five years.
00:39Where we'd like to see it in 2030 is true to its heart, true to its humble beginnings back in 2015,
00:48but to have evolved into a major tourism and destination event for not just the automotive community,
00:56but for the wider festival community.
00:58For some, the event is a pilgrimage.
01:00Kevin Jones travels from Western Australia each year, this time showing off his 1935 classic,
01:06a mix of Ford, Chevy and Jaguar parts.
01:09I've got a Jag rear end, Volkswagen door handles, I call it the bitser, bits of this and bits of that.
01:16The debut of dirt drag racing down a red desert strip and Roll Start drag racing,
01:22South Australia's Graeme Coles entered his 1962 Morris.
01:27I loved it mate, the first run I was sort of a bit apprehensive about it,
01:30but the first run went, then it would just come around again and I ended up doing it four times.
01:35The ultimate festival of wheels, now set to keep echoing across the red centre for years to come.
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