The weather threatened and the rain poured, but qualifying in the ANDRA Drag Racing Series at the X-Champs still went ahead at Sydney Dragway.

The X-Champs is off to a flying start as several competitors set themselves up for a record setting weekend in the Aeroflow Sportsman Drag Racing Championship.

X Champs is upon us and it has been a week of frantic testing where for some not everything went to plan, here is a wrap up with loads of photos and video footage.

Super Street might be the entry level category for championship drag racing but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t have its fair share of tough competitors and few are stronger than three times WA state champion Blake Jeffreys.

NHRA Aussie Shane Tucker returns this weekend in what will most likely be his only Australian appearance of the year in a stacked X-Champs Pro Stock field.

Freshly crowned Motorplex SuperComp Vice Track Champion, Kyle Putland is all set to make his first racing appearance on the east coast, steering Australia’s quickest naturally aspirated car at this weekend’s X Champs at Sydney Dragway.

The X-Champs this weekend will see a maximum hit of nitro as eight Top Fuel dragsters and 10 Top Fuel Motorcycles take the track at Sydney Dragway.

Former US Pro Stock racer Grace Howell recently made some test laps at Willowbank Raceway at the wheel of partner Scott Porter’s Ford Mustang in preparation for racing at selected events this season.