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A big two weeks at the Atlantic Oils Sunset Strip is coming up for Junior Dragster racer Paige Harvey, with the 15-year-old signed up for both this weekend’s Sunset Nationals (September 20-21) and next weekend’s Nitro Golf Centre Junior Nationals (September 26-28).
The Australian National Drag Racing Association (ANDRA) Board is pleased to welcome Craig Baker to its ranks, filling a casual vacancy.
The Australian National Drag Racing Association (ANDRA) is pleased to welcome Atlantic Oils to the ANDRA Racer Support Program, backing the Super Sedan bracket as part of the 2025/2026 ANDRA Sportsman Series.
If there’s a drag strip in Australia that feels like it belongs in a Mad Max film, it’s Alice Springs Dragway. Set against the backdrop of the rugged MacDonnell Ranges and surrounded by open desert, it’s a quarter mile that gets the job done — built tough, prepped well, and right in the heart of the outback.
PAC Performance reclaim Australian and World Rotary powered benchmarks after an epic private test session.
For decades, Australian drag racing has had a rhythm. You win your titles under cold skies at the Winternationals, and call it a season by June. But not this year.
Round two of the 2025/2026 ANDRA Sportsman Series, the Desert Nationals, has delivered no end of midweek thrills at the Alice Springs Inland Dragway (Wednesday September 3).
Darwin turned on the heat off the track, Top Doorslammer and Aeroflow Outlaw Nitro Funny Car turned up the heat on the track, combine this with the ANDRA Sportsman Series and a packed Hidden Valley Raceway, Nitro Up North once again delivered spectacularly. Check out all the hot hot hot action in our monster gallery.
The Sunraysia Drag Racing Association (SDRA) is thrilled to announce that the 2025 Junior Nationals will proudly be presented as the 2025 Nitro Golf Centre Junior Nationals, thanks to a new partnership with Mildura’s own Nitro Golf Centre.
Round two of the 2025/2026 ANDRA Sportsman Series, the Desert Nationals, will bring plenty of epic mid-week drag racing action to Alice Springs Inland Dragway on Wednesday September 3.
Across two huge days at the Hidden Valley Drag Strip, the NDRC Top Doorslammers provided an absolutely epic display of drag racing thrills for a packed crowd at LMCT+ Nitro Up North – the final event of their 2024/2025 championship season.
As the 2025/2026 ANDRA Sportsman Series gets underway with Nitro Up North this evening, ANDRA is pleased to announce that the penultimate round of the ANDRA Sportsman Series will be run at Sydney Dragway on Saturday 24th January, 2026 – finalising the season calendar (see below for the full dates listing).
ANDRA is proud to announce that Powerplus Racing Fuels has come on board with the new ANDRA Championship Racer Support Program for the Supercharged Outlaws bracket as part of the 2025/2026 ANDRA Sportsman Series.
The opening round of the 2025/2026 ANDRA Sportsman Series lit up the night in Darwin on Friday, with qualifying unfolding across the evening to decide who would claim the first Top Qualifier Medallions presented by New Gen Business Park of the season. With ANDRA Christmas Trees and valuable early championship points also on the line this weekend, racers were pushing hard from the very first pass ahead of race day on Saturday.
FUCHS Lubricants Australasia and Summit Racing Equipment are proud to announce they have come onboard as joint co-naming rights sponsors of the Australian drag racing legend as he embarks on his final two seasons of racing.
New Gen Business Park has expanded its support of ANDRA members competing in the ANDRA Sportsman Series by throwing its support behind three brackets for the 2025/2026 season.
Lisa Gregorini will become the highest-ever finishing woman in the Australian Top Doorslammer Championship this weekend at Hidden Valley Drag Strip’s Nitro Up North event, the only question is — how high?
The NSW Drag Racing Championship series returned from its Winter hiatus, and while a huge entry of racers were keen, the event was hit by a bunch of bad luck that saw the racing program cancelled before completion.
Cooper Plummer has tasted plenty of success in Junior Dragster in both the ANDRA and NDRC sportsman championship ranks and is now turning his talent towards a new goal: the first ANDRA Junior Drag Bike Championship.
The Australian National Drag Racing Association (ANDRA) is pleased to announce that long-time ANDRA insurance broker and supporter of the ANDRA Volunteer of the Year program, Gallagher, has retained its backing of the Modified Eliminator bracket ahead of this weekend’s commencement of the 2025/2026 ANDRA Sportsman Series.
The Australian National Drag Racing Association (ANDRA) is pleased to announce that the South Australian Drag Racers Association (SADRA) has once again taken on bracket sponsorship within the ANDRA Sportsman Series, backing the Super Sedan bracket for the 2025/2026 ANDRA Sportsman Series.
Leon Davies heads to this weekend’s Nitro Up North and Wednesday’s Desert Nationals – rounds one and two of the 2025/2026 ANDRA Sportsman Series – on a mission: to begin his campaign for three straight ANDRA titles in the best way possible.
In addition to its support of the just-announced new ANDRA Championship Racer Support Program, Ballistic Performance Parts and ANDRA are pleased to confirm the company is also continuing its sponsorship of the ANDRA Sportsman Series’ Modified Bike bracket.
As the countdown to this weekend’s commencement of the 2025/2026 ANDRA Sportsman Series continues, ANDRA and Ballistic Performance Parts are pleased to announce a new ANDRA Championship Racer Support Program for the Modified Bike and Junior Drag Bike brackets.
Nitro Up North, presented by LMCT+, is set to bring the thunder to the Hidden Valley Drag Strip this Friday and Saturday with an epic drag racing show for the ages.
After 24 years away from Pro Stock Motorcycle a rejuvenation of the class has seen Paul Andrews returned to the bracket he loves riding straight into the low sevens. Check out this interview about his return year recorded by Pro Stock Motorcycle Australia.
Springmount Raceway has released a statement regrettable announcing the venue can not remain open for the rest of 2025. The owners will be looking to lease the venue out for operation in 2026.
Two massive grand finals, one massive day: that’s what race fans can expect at Sydney Dragway this Saturday (August 23) as the National Drag Racing Championship (NDRC) brings its 2024/2025 Top Fuel and XPRO Nitro Funny Car championship chases to an epic close at the Nitro Nationals.
This Saturday’s Grand Finale of the 2024/2025 NDRC Top Fuel Championship, the Nitro Nationals at Sydney Dragway, sees Hydraulink Jim Read Racing presented with the opportunity to bookend their season in style.
On the eve of the return to racing for the NSW Track Championship at Sydney Dragway following the Winter break, we look back at round three of the championship and who won what.
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