If there is an international driver in motorsport who has been to Australia more than Billings, Montana-based Chuck Haynes, we’d like to find them.

The following has been released by Calder Park Drag Racing today, the 18th of December 2017.

Rising NHRA Top Fuel star Ashley Sanford will return to Australia to drivefor Rapisarda Autosport International at Willowbank Raceway on January 6.

IHRA Australia has announced an expansion with new Melbourne-based Technical and Administration positions.

Calder Park’s long and tumultuous history had another chapter written last week with the 400 Thunder Series making the decision to remove the pro categories from the Australian Nationals.

Going drag racing for the first time can be a hell of a lot of fun and we want to make sure you can avoid some of the pitfalls that newbies get into at the track.

After the loss of the 400 Thunder Australian Professional Drag Racing Series championship round due to be run at Calder Park in January, Sydney Dragway will now host round 4 of the 2017-18 Pro Slammer Championship at the Santo’s Summer Thunder in January 2018.

With tragic passing of Anita Board, it is often hard to pay tribute with words. So around the country racers young and old paid their respects and to honour Anita in a range of personal gestures and gatherings at drag racing venues. We have shown you some of those moments of respect already, however from Sydney Dragway, Madman Productions has put together an emotional video from a day dedicated to Anita.

The year that was for Team Bray Racing was nothing short of mammoth, with a roller coaster of emotions keeping the team on their toes throughout 2017.

Following concerns regarding the racing surface at Calder Park Raceway raised by 400 Thunder Professional competitor groups, today 400 Thunder has announced that these categories will not race at the Australian Nationals event in January 2018.