Stuart Bishop, Aaron Tremayne and Luke Crowley ruled an abbreviated first day of the Lady Daly Hotel Springnationals at Adelaide International Raceway where track records fell but cold conditions eventually had the final say.

  The challenge to increase crowd numbers and the scarcity of a national sponsor has seen the need for drag racing  to evolve and adapt in order to address these and other issues. The case of dwindling Top Fuel fields recently saw a rule proposal for the 2014 season that would see the integration of Top Fuel and Fuel Funny Car into a homogenous bracket to be known as Nitro Eliminator.