Summernats (a portmanteau of "Summer" and "National"), is an annual car festival held in Canberra, Australia since 1987, except 2021 due to COVID.

[1] Summernats, which is usually held at the start of the year, is a specialist car enthusiast festival in Australia, and an event which attracts tourists to Canberra.

Summernats is held over a four-day period (Plus 2 days before the event for Vehicle inspections), with many events, with prizes in competitions such as for burnouts, parades of cars around the track, fireworks at night and two outdoor concerts held on Friday and Saturday nights.

The ACT Government has Routinely expressed its strong support of Summernats, praising the significant benefit it brings to the Economy of Canberra.

There are the following categories: In addition, there are some awards that are highly coveted amongst the Australian vehicle modifying community: Custom Air brushing is also celebrated at the Summernats, where an exhibition occurs in the Meguiar's Pavilion.

[14] Summernats Horsepower Heroes Results: 9 - 1996 Anthony Fabris VL Walkinshaw 325rwhp 10 - 1997 Matt Bunton HQ 454 Van 372rwhp 11 - 1998 Jason Gray HSV GTS 404rwhp 12 - 1999 Jason Gray HSV GTS 486rwhp 13 - 2000 Rob Vickery VS Commodore Ute 527rwhp 14 - 2001 Todd Wilkes Giocattolo 850rwhp 15 - 2002 Rob Vickery VS Commodore Ute 1023rwhp 16 - 2003 Eddy Tassone VH Commodore 1376rwhp 17 - 2004 Brett Waine VH Commodore 1470rwhp 18 - 2005 Eddy Tassone VH Commodore 1259whp 19 - 2006 Craig Munro, TRYHRD VX HSV Clubsport 1262rwhp 20 - 2007 Trick & Mansweto, Ford Capri 940rwhp 21 - 2008 Craig Munro, TRYHRD VX HSV Clubsport 1895rwhp 22 - 2009 Lyle Lemon MRPSI, 1533rwhp 23 - 2010 Adrian Abella, FPV Typhoon 869rwhp 24 - Graham Longhurst, HZ Holden 891rwhp 25 - Jake Edwards, LH Torana, 1592rwhp 26 - 2013 Jake Edwards, LH Torana, 1666rwhp 27 - 2014 Michael Daniels, Falcon XR6 Turbo 1131rwhp 28 - 2015 Jake Edwards, LH Torana 2084rwhp (qualifying) 29 - 2016 Jake Edwards, LH Torana 1783rwhp 30 - 2017 Jake Edwards, LH Torana 1663rwhp 31 - 2018 Paul Allen, 1010 hp 32 - 2019 Brenden Medlin, 2483 hp 33 - 2020 Maria Passos, 2202 hp 35 - 2023 Cody Hunt, 1643rwhp 36 - 2024 Maatouks Racing, VL Turbo 2504rwhp[15] 37 - 2025 Lee Povey, VL Calais 2109rwhp A crash at Summernats 2006 injured a number of people (various sources indicating four,[16] five[17] or six[18]).

The City Cruise is the first driving event at each Summernats and was limited to 300 entrant vehicles, however this was recently raised to 400.