The decision to pay only winners and runners up at Sydney Dragway’s large ANDRA events has been changed with semi final and quarter final pay outs to be made, scaled to spectator numbers.

Round one of the Queensland Drag Racing Championships kicked off on February 15, the re-badged Willowbank Track Championship Series featured a smallish field of 125 competitors doing battle for the first round of the new season.

Aussie Geico/Lucas Oil Top Fuel driver Richie Crampton went down swinging in his matchup with 2012 champion Antron Brown at the Carquest Auto Parts NHRA Nationals on Sunday at Wild Horse Pass Motorsports Park.

Round one of the JP Racing Eighth Mile Drag Racing Series kicked off with a great entry list of 95, up 10 from last year. After all of the weird weather that has been in Queensland of late it was great to see a fine and sunny day and not too hot.