A massive crowd witnessed the return of New Year’s racing at Willowbank Raceway with the running of New Year’s Thunder – a 400 Thunder Series round for Top Fuel, Pro Slammer, Top Bike and Pro Bike.

Rachelle Splatt has announced her Top Fuel comeback race meeting will be at 400 Thunder’s Santo’s Summer Thunder event at Sydney Dragway on January 21.

Drag News Australia’s results robot in chief Mark Shields will be at Willowbank Raceway today for the first 400 Thunder round of the year to provide updates from trackside.

One of the legends of WA drag racing makes a return this Saturday at the Aeroflow Outlaw Nitro Funny Car event, as the ‘White Knight’ Jay Upton brings his nitro Top Fuel Motorcycle back to Perth Motorplex.

The rain meant the ANDRA Summer Nationals and Adelaide International Raceway was cancelled after qualifying, but we have found some qualifying video highlights by Sporting Scribe for your viewing.

Seeing a Nitro Funny Car with the name Begley on the side of it is nothing new at Perth Motorplex.

Rapisarda Autosport International star Wayne Newby will be chasing his first win at Willowbank Raceway in Top Fuel at the New Year Thunder meeting on Saturday January 7.

Willowbank Raceway is currently hosting the latest grudge racing series headlined by American Drag Week superstar Larry Larson who has transported his now legendary Nova and S-10 truck down under for a four event program.

Never mind just calmly spinning out his iconic S10 after a chute malfunction on one of the more daunting drag strip braking areas around, it was a kangaroo that grabbed Larry Larson’s attention.

  After a labor intensive build, Mick Mahoney and Phil Read have finally hit the track with their stunning Supercharged Outlaw Mustang at the recent ANDRA Summer Nationals at Adelaide International Raceway.

Instead of trying to complete the impossible task of picking our best photos from 2016, I decided to choose photo highlights from events in my travels this season.

Steve Bezzina in performing the unnatural by running 200mph in his XW Falcon on standard suspension and leaf spring rear end – all on a mere 275 radial tyre.

Construction has begun on the eagerly awaited new motorsport complex at Tailem Bend – now named The Bend. A video has been produced showing off the the initial earthworks after the South Australian Premier recently attended the ground breaking ceremony.

  U.S. Drag Week legend has landed in Australia and checked out the Willowbank facility where he aims to reset the U.S. street car world record.

The international Boxing Day Night of Fire at Perth Motorplex will provide a big stage for second generation jet drag racer Daniel Miocevich to make his competition debut.

The release of the International Hot Rod Association’s “State of the State” document further cements the 400 Thunder Professional Drag Racing Series as a market leader in the delivery of motorsports entertainment.

Leading lubricants company Gulf Western Oil has thrown its support behind Team Bray Racing, signing on as a full naming rights sponsor of a five-car campaign for the next three years.

For the upcoming Aeroflow Outlaw Nitro Funny Car event at the Perth Motorplex, the partisan local crowd will have someone to cheer for, with the West Australian-based ‘Nitro Madness’ funny car to be piloted by young hot-shoe, Nathan Coles.

The owners of Jamboree are excited to announce that they have just signed a deal to bring four of Puerto Rico’s fastest sport compacts cars to the Brisbane Jamboree in 2017.

One of Australia’s best-known drag racing names on the international stage, ‘Cowin’, will once again take part in an international tour with the Aeroflow Nitro Hotrods set to race NZ’s and USA’s best!

The Zappia Racing crew traveled to Adelaide last week and attended the ANDRA Championship Dinner before Round 3, and Zap was presented with his Top Doorslammer Championship Gold Christmas Tree for 2015/2016 – his ninth back-to-back championship.

Canberra’s Josh Leahy has been keeping the Aeroflow Outlaw Nitro Funny Car crowds entertained with 160km/h 400-metre wheelies in the Nitro Sherriff wheelstander and now Leahy will swap ‘wheels up’ for ‘flames up’ as he pilots The Bandit nitro beast for the very first time in Perth.

Respected drag racing journalist and photographer John Baremans will officially take over as the new ANDRA Media & PR Officer on Monday December 12.

Summer Nationals at Adelaide International Raceway with multiple National Records under threat on race day.

John Zappia currently occupies the number #1 qualifying position for Top Doorslammer with a fourth and final qualifier to come while Chris Soldatos has taken first position in Pro Stock at Adelaide International Raceway.

Top Doorslammer icon Peter Kapiris and ANDRA New South Wales Division Director Geoff Crisp have been voted onto the ANDRA Board at the 2016 Annual General Meeting.

The Whyalla Steel City Drag Club has been awarded the Arthur J. Gallagher Volunteer of the Year at the 2016 ANDRA Championship Dinner on Thursday December 1.

The racer who will take on Mark ‘The Nitro Madman’ Sheehan at this Saturday’s Nitro Slam has been revealed with Matt Abel to step up to the plate in Rory Taylor’s new ‘Fun-da-mental’.