Rapisarda Autosport International will make Top Fuel history at the Sydney Dragway Nitro champs on May 2-3 when they become the first Australian team to ever field four cars in the elite category.

With 2 wins from the first 2 championship events of the season, Gary Phillips and his Lucas Oils team head to Sydney Dragway on May 2 & 3 for the Nitro Champs, looking to continue the strong form that has seen them catapult to the top of the Top Alcohol championship standings.

Grant O’Rourke will be flying solo for the husband and wife drag racing team O’Rourke Motorsport at the Nitro Champs at Sydney Dragway (May 2-3), with Debbie O’Rourke sidelined due to damage sustained to her Top Alcohol funnycar at last month’s Pro Series 1000.

It’s the car that is creating plenty of buzz in the Top Fuel paddock and for the very first time Mark Sheehan’s brand new Morgan Lucas Racing-built dragster, complete with canopy over the cockpit, will be racing on Australia’s east coast.

Richie Crampton has won his third NHRA national event in Las Vegas.

Local racers have dominated at Willowbank Raceway’s round of the national Summit Racing Equipment Sportsman Series on Saturday 11 April, with all but two of the final contenders hailing from the host state.

Dom Lagana will face off against the highly fancied ex-Pro Stock champ Dave Connolly in first round of racing at the Summit Racing NHRA Nationals after nailing eighth place in qualifying.

It was meant to be just another licensing pass attempt for Vaughan Greentree in the supercharged “Undertaker” Hearse at Sydney Dragway’s Day Of The Drags event – that was before all hell broke loose.

Rapisarda Autosport International and gun racer Dom Lagana have made a superb return to the NHRA Mello Yello Series finishing in eighth spot at the end of day one of qualifying at the SummitRacing.com Nationals at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.

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A huge crowd packed into Adelaide International Raceway for the Saturday night Easter show and eager fans were treated to some of the very best racing ever held at the iconic South Australian venue as a part of the Aeroflow nitro funny car show.

Toward the end of 2014 Davison Family Racing announced their return to ANDRA Championship Drag Racing to contest for the Competition Eliminator title in 2015 as part of the Summit Racing Equipment Sportsman Series.

The WA Grand Final could see several first time track championship winners this Saturday night at Perth Motorplex and hoping to join that lucky group are Modified Bike racer Brett Allen and Junior Dragster driver Connor McClure.

Supercharged Outlaws competitor Jake Donnelly and his DBS Motorsports team are on the verge of some big changes as they ready their 57 Chev for Round 4 of the Summit Racing Equipment Sportsman Series at Willowbank Raceway on Saturday (April 11).

South East Queensland’s sportsman drag racers will have their first shot of national championship glory at Queensland’s premier drag racing facility Willowbank Raceway this weekend (Saturday 11 April) when the Summit Racing Equipment Sportsman Series comes to town.

The WA Grand Final will be the stage for a number of exciting championship scenarios to play out this Saturday at Perth Motorplex.

A new dragster recently had its first hit out in Queensland with a different kind of powerplant behind the driver.

Following confirmation from the Board of ANDRA ltd. the 2015 ANDRA Drag Racing Series Pro Stock Championship will continue as scheduled.

Santo Rapisarda Jr, crew chief for current ANDRA Top Fuel championship leader Damien Harris, says the team chemistry is strong this season as Rapisarda Autosport International chases their first title in 13 years.

The opening round of the Atura Blacktown Track Championship Series at Sydney Dragway featured 250 entries and free entry for spectators, however the weather machine dropped consistent drizzle all day long to dampen the mood and try everyone’s patience.

Peter Leahy will be racing a car in tribute to his father Roly Leahy as part of the Adelaide round of the Aeroflow Outlaw Nitro Funny Car series.

With a poor weather forecast for the coming weekend around Brisbane, the Santo’s Super 3 Extreme Drag Race has been cancelled.

“Cyclone Nationals Conquered” screamed one of the social media updates in the aftermath of the 2015 NZ Nationals held 14th and 15th March 2015 at Meremere Dragway.

John Cannuli will be returning to the United States later this year to have another crack at Top Alcohol Funny Car racing in the NHRA.

Wayne Newby, the newest recruit to Rapisarda Autosport International, says he is growing more and more accustomed to the cockpit of a Top Fuel dragster but even he was taken aback after covering the quarter mile in 4.58 seconds at Perth Motorplex last month.