A WA racer is reported to be shipping this USA-based Pro Mod shortly.

Queensland’s Steve Read will return to where his nitro career began when the ANDRA Top Fuel season launches at Adelaide International Raceway on October 20.

Several changes are to be made to the calendar for the 2012/2013 ANDRA Drag Racing Series season to ease pressure on racers.

The last two weeks has seen a fair bit of off season testing up and down the eastern seaboard, here is our Testing Times wrap up.

ANDRA members wishing to put in rule proposals should note that the period for submissions is now open. Members are invited to send in their rule proposals and have their say in the future of the sport.

Brrrrr!…That would best summise the non event that was Round 4 of the NSW Championships and Sydney Dragway. A cold snap and chilling gusty breeze that brought snow to many parts of NSW also sent track temperature plummeting to levels deemed unsafe by racers and officials causing the cancellation of the event with only a few brackets completing any rounds of eliminations.

The October 20 season opener for the 2012/13 ANDRA Drag Racing Series will see the return of the Pro Stock championship to Adelaide for the first time in over a decade, with a group of local racers keen to show off their skills in front of the South Australian audience.

With the Mac Tools US Nationals coming up this weekend in Indianapolis, Australia’s own Rapisarda Racing has been out testing with the Tommy Johnson Jr car.

Phil Parker has been announced as a new member on the ANDRA Board. Parker is the Victoria/Tasmania Division Director and a competitor in the Top Bike category.

NHRA is this year pushing its “Nitro Generation” marketing, but Australia has its own generations of drag racers whose offspring is following on in their passion for the sport – in this case it’s someone more of the “Methanol Generation”.