Drag News Magazine Issue Sixteen (Print Copy) – $9.95 plus postage Drag News Magazine #16 is now available and features some of our best quality features yet. Take a peak under the matte black body of Corey Buttigieg’s awesome Pro Stock Motorcycle Buell. The new national champion tells us about his future goals for this spectacular machine. We catch up with the Super Street sweetheart Georgia McSweeney as well as supercharged Torana steerer, and grandmother, Kaylene Gourley. Lex Swayn brings you the second part of his special series on Surfers Paradise International Raceway – find out how drag racing megastar John Force came to Australia and launched his career. Our cover this issue pays tribute to Louie Rapisarda, the Top Fuel driver who is remembered each year with the Santo’s Super 3 event at Willowbank Raceway. We speak to the winners from Willowbank. Plus the ANDRA Grand Finals, Perth Motorplex’s Maximum Thrust and Springmount’s Funny Car-themed Grand Opening. Drag News Magazine’s print edition is not available in newsagents and must be ordered online. To order simply type in your email address and phone number and click ‘Add to Cart’. Ordering is secure via PayPal. Please note the print edition is only available within Australia. Postage is via Australia Post and may take 3-5 days. Please ensure your delivery address is correct. Email Address Phone Number {fcomment}

For Grant O’Rourke, this weekend’s Nitro Champs are all about making sure every small part in the OMS machine is working at its best as he looks to chase down John Zappia.

Darren Morgan Racing are pumped and ready to race at the Nitro Champs this Saturday after testing at Sydney Dragway yesterday.

Australia’s leading Building and Facility Management professionals, Sydney based Lefand Group, have joined forces with the rising star of Australian motorsport, Mark Mariani and the Mariani Motorsports Top Fuel Team.

Two West Australian drag racers are heading east to take their first steps towards a possible 400 Thunder national title this weekend – the only problem is that they will be vying for the same trophy.

Darryl Stephen started the 2015/2016 Summit Racing Equipment Sportsman Series in Top Sportsman but switched back to Super Gas following an engine failure. It was a good thing he did…

Newly crowned Summit Racing Equipment Sportsman Series Modified Champion Matt Forbes (Ballarat, Victoria) has capped a stunning season with a record points haul in the calculations for the John Storm Memorial Trophy.

If there was ever a more spectacular way to wrap up an ANDRA Drag Racing Series Championship, you’d be hard pressed to find it given the way Corey Buttigieg effectively secured the 2015/2016 ANDRA Pro Stock Motorcycle Championship.

Drag News Magazine has jumped back ten years to look at the 2006 Nitro Champs in photos. A massive crowd filled the then named Western Sydney International Dragway with Top Fuel, Top Alcohol and Top Bike the feature categories.

One of Australia’s most iconic motorsport teams will make a return to the sport of drag racing, with the LTFR team confirmed to compete at the Hidden Valley Drag Strip with long-time tuner, Aaron Hambridge doing the driving.

Geoff Blake’s first shot in Top Alcohol trim with his FED turned out a little more eventful than planned with a big power wheelstand in testing on the weekend.

Hidden Valley Drag Racing Association is excited to announce the return of 10,000 horsepower, 500kmh nitro dragsters to Darwin in 2016.

The ANDRA Championship Drag Racing season will once again explode into action at Darwin’s Hidden Valley Drag Strip on the weekend of 8-9 July 2016.

Three-times consecutive Super Stock Champion (2008-2010) Nino Cavallo has added an ANDRA Drag Racing Series Pro Stock Championship to his resume following his hometown triumph at the Australian Nationals in January.

Hidden Valley Drag Racing Association have announced that the Department of Infrastructure (DOI) have commenced the track rectification works on Hidden Valley Drag Strip.

The Aeroflow Outlaw Nitro Funny Car teams put on a massive show for the huge crowd at Queensland’s Willowbank Raceway and the event left the spectators on the edge of their seats until the very end of the night!

Aaron Lynch made a big impression on the pro levels of drag racing through the mid 2000s, running a Top Doorslammer, a Top Alcohol Funny Car and a Top Fuel dragster. But all did not go to plan in the opening qualifying session for the 2006 Goldenstates at Perth Motorplex.

Former national Top Fuel champion Martin Stamatis will make a return to racing at the Nitro Champs event in May at Sydney Dragway.

Up until the 2014 Desert Nationals, Bryan Finn had mostly competed on Divisional Day licences regionally. In 2015/2016 he is the Summit Racing Equipment Sportsman Series Modified Bike Champion.

Already a three-time consecutive Super Sedan Champ, John Kapiris went into the ANDRA Championship Grand Final in Adelaide aiming to make Super Sedan history.

The Aeroflow Outlaw Nitro Funny Car show has rolled into Queensland and whilst the teams are set to take on not only each other this weekend, they are chomping at the bit to let the 4000hp flame throwing beasts loose on the superb Willowbank Raceway track surface.

The Atura Championship Series for the Sydney Dragway Track Championship rolled on with round three as contenders for this year’s title start to immerge.

Drag News Magazine has been given a sneak peek at Geoff Blake’s new Top Alcohol set up for his front engine dragster. All things going to plan the car will debut at the Nitro Champs.

Round two of the 2016 JP Racing Eighth Mile Drag Racing Series is done and dusted. The series moved to Benaraby Raceway last weekend with a 137 racers in attendance and perfect conditions for racing.

Grant O’Rourke made sure he rounded out the 2015/2016 ANDRA Top Doorslammer Championship season out with a bang, taking victory in the ANDRA Grand Final event at Adelaide International Raceway.

The coolest show in all of drag racing will once again be at Willowbank Raceway on the 30th of April as the Aeroflow Outlaw Nitro Funny Cars hit down featuring a massive field of 14 nitro cars as well as the Nitro Sheriff and the Rocket Ship wheelstanders.

Drag racing is one of the few motorsports to be conducted over a standard distance, which makes national records a motivational goal for participants. West Australian racer Alistair McClure is one such competitor inspired to collect records, with his current quest to obtain as many of the “BB” records available as possible – BB/Altered, BB/Funny Car and BB/Dragster.

WA’s Troy Thompson says progress on his turbocharged Suzuki Hayabusa Modified Bike has been far quicker than expected since hitting the track earlier this season.

Sydney’s Peter Xiberras is preparing to take the PremiAir Top Fuel dragster all the way at the Nitro Champs Nitro Champs at Sydney Dragway on the 7th and 8th May.