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.

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.

The Perth Motorplex is proud to announce that VPW has signed on as a major sponsor. VPW / Proflow will sponsor the right hand lane at the Perth Motorplex starting from this week’s Westernationals.

Phil Read will return to the seat of the Jim Read Racing Top Fuel dragster as numbers continue to grow for the fastest motorsport category in Australia.

The official ANDRA transporter is on its way to selected Perth locations from Monday, February 24th to Thursday February 27th, 2014 ahead of the Westernationals.