Entrant FAQ

Friday 4th to Sunday 6th April 2025 during the Easter School Holidays (not the Easter long weekend).

Entrants get their tickets at scrutineering!

Just show up at your designated scrutineering time with your entrant number ready. Our friendly officials will confirm your registration, and you'll receive your wristband, buddy pass, and entrant goodie bag at scrutineering.

Yes, you can participate in everything including cruising in the CBD precinct. Unregistered cars can’t be driven to and from your accommodation or between venues. You must use a trailer / tow truck as normal road rules still apply. Please note that vehicles need to meet the minimum scrutineering requirements.

Rockynats is one of the best value multi-day car and bike festivals in the country. Your standard car entry gets you and a buddy into the event as well as your car. Your bike entry gets you and a pillion into the show. Car and bike entrants also receive a goodie bag that includes a T-shirt and commemorative licence plate, and bike entrants also get a commemorative patch.

For those entrants who choose to take the burnout or drag racing option, you get all these entry benefits plus you’re now competing for serious cash and prizes. There’s over $30,000 in cash and prizes for burnouts and $20,000 in cash and prizes up for grabs in drag racing. Your entry also includes the appropriate sanctioning body licence. Burnout competitors get a minimum of two burnouts in the schedule and drag racing numbers are limited to ensure ample track time for everyone.

Competition support vehicles are available for entrants competing in Burnouts, Street Drags, vehicles running methanol fuel and Elite Entrants only.

If you meet these criteria, you’ll be eligible to purchase a Competition Support Vehicle Pass at time of scrutineering. This pass is $50 and is limited to one per entrant. 

Your state licence restrictions apply. Learner drivers are not accepted.

Entrants who hold a provisional licence that does not allow them to driver their vehicle on a normal road are permitted to enter Rockynats but are restricted to competitions only, and require a dual entrant who holds a full unrestricted drivers licence.

The dual entrant who holds a full unrestricted drivers licence is the entrant responsible for driving the vehicle to and from the competition area and at all other non-competition times, as the provisional licenced driver is not permitted to drive the vehicle at any time other than during competition. 

Awesome! Send an email to admin@rockynats.com.au with your approved entrant number. This request will be forwarded on to the Judging team for review and approval. You will be notified via email prior to the event if successful.

Tent City is located at the Rockhampton Brothers Cricket Club (4 Graeme Acton Way, Wandal) in the heart of Victoria Park and a 1.7km walk to the Rockynats Drifting precinct and available for spectators and entrants, providing a great inner city accommodation option. Find out more here. 

All passengers in your vehicle must wear a valid wristband (entrant, buddy, or spectator). Tickets cannot be scanned at the street parade form-up. Any ticketholders without a wristband must enter through Gate 1 as spectators. Please note that FMX Kaos Showgrounds Precinct spectator gates do not open until 10am. To avoid any issues, ensure you (and your friends/family) collect all required wristbands, including spectator wristbands, during scrutineering.

Yes, however please note that the vehicle needs to meet the minimum scrutineering requirements for the Street Parade.

Trailer parking will be limited. If you have a street registered car we recommend you drive it into the precincts.

We will have a limited amount of trailer parking at the Rockhampton Showgrounds and the Burnout Precinct at Callaghan Park. Trailer parking will not be permitted within the CBD precinct.

No, the track is an unprepped street track.

AT EVENT

Entrants will be able to bring fuel in and refuel onsite (as we have standards around this) but they will need to take their fuel after the event as we won’t have storage facilities available onsite.

TENT CITY

Limited storage of additional fuel (external to the fuel contained in a vehicle’s fitted fuel tanks/cells) is permitted in Tent City. All fuel must be stored in containers that meet the relevant Australian Standard for the type of fuel being stored and as per QLD Government regulations total additional quantities may not exceed 250L per vehicle. Fuel containers must remain within the contestant’s vehicle at all times and no refuelling of vehicles or equipment is permitted on site.

DURING THE STREET PARADE

Refuelling is not permitted during the Street Parade. If you run out of fuel, please await a tow truck. 

Speciality fuels can be purchased in Rockhampton directly from local distributors. It is recommended that you make contact directly with the distributors to pre-order your fuel, as they cannot guarantee stock will be available on the day without pre-ordering. 

PREMIUM 98
Premium 98 is available from the bowser at multiple service stations in Rockhampton. 

METHANOL
Methanol Fuel distributor:
Puma Rockhampton, 217 Richardson Rd, North Rockhampton QLD 4701
PH (07) 4928 2611 or (07) 3727 1805
EMAIL rockhamptonscheduling@chevron.com

E85
E85 Fuel distributor:
United Rockhampton, 23 Albert St, Rockhampton QLD 4700
PH(07) 3607 3712

Rockynats is sanctioned by Motorsport Australia and other permitted sanctioning bodies, for different elements of the event. If you have a Motorsport Australia license, you’re one step ahead – add this information into your application form.

Don’t have one? All good, they are covered in your entry fee.

Street Drags licencing requirements will be available closer to the event! 

Yes! One Buddy Pass is included with your entry. We have even included bike entrants to have a buddy pass for Rockynats 05!

Put a ballpark ET time in your application form and chat to our friendly Street Drags team at scrutineering.

Yes! Included in your entry is a pass for one Pillion.