The recent Westernationals was not short on action of both the good and the bad kinds, with two separate two-car incidents in the braking area. One of those featured Trent Morrison’s altered and Paul Carey’s Mazda gasser and we have the amazing onboard video.

Alberta’s Dean Branham who’s super radical 1967 Barracuda is one of Canada’s most popular and creative Outlaw 10.5 cars has received a significant engine upgrade for 2014.

Reigning Top Doorslammer champion John Zappia has gained valuable championship points with his team’s performance at the Westernationals with a B Final win and top ET and MPH in the first of the two championship rounds staged at the event.

Darren Morgan showed missing the opening event of the season has done little to slow the Victorian American Imports dragster after taking a win on night two of the 43rd annual Westernationals at Perth Motorplex.

Phil Lamattina has extended his run of Top Fuel wins to three following the first of two Westernationals championships rounds as Peter Kapiris returned to form in Top Doorslammer.

Wayne Jones is facing a long recovery following a testing accident several weeks ago with his blown alcohol dragster at Willowbank Raceway. Drag News caught up with the Queensland driver.

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.

The 43rd annual Westernationals is set to be one of the best ever, with the two major crowd drawcards of the ANDRA Drag Racing Series, Top Fuel and Top Doorslammer, on the same bill for the first time in the west.

Shane Tucker defeated number one qualifier Chris McGaha in the opening round of the Carquest Auto Parts NHRA Nationals in Phoenix but things got a bit hairy for Tucker in the braking area.