In drag racing’s fast street car genre — the Outlaw 10.5 category is certainly well worth fan attention and some Ontario-based drag racers are helping to take that class to a higher level within Canada.

Australia’s Top Fuel season begun on Saturday but it wasn’t the only nitro action down under with New Zealand seeing its first pairing of locally owned Top Fuel dragsters at Fram Autolite Dragway’s Nitro Shootout in Meremere.

Graham Slapp has always had a passion for the unique and for variety, but it’s fair to say he has never quite found a comfortable place in a sport where variety is never short.

Six new national records were set, all in the Aeroflow Sportsman Drag Racing Championship, at Perth over the weekend despite maximum temperatures well into the forties.