When Grant and Debbie O’Rourke head to South Australia this week for the Adelaide International Raceway’s Pro Series 1000, it will signal a return to a happy hunting ground for the husband and wife team.

Pro Stock will not contest a championship round at Adelaide International Raceway’s VPW Racer Payouts Pro Series 1000 this weekend with entries falling below the minimum required.

There has been a lot of talk about running a competition for bodied cars that pits blown v turbo v nitrous v aspirated racers against each other in a battle for not only bragging rights, but also a substantial prize purse.

One of Australia’s longest running motorsport partnerships has strengthened with Rare Spares increasing its presence on Australian drag racing legend Graeme Cooper’s iconic ‘Bricklayer’ Holden EH Premier Station Wagon. 

The 2015 Sydney Jamboree could be best summed up as an event of attrition, the car casualty rate was high and props must go to the Sydney Dragway officials who pushed on through what seemed like endless breakages. That said, the Jamboree still produced its usual fair share of wheelstands, wild passes and two step flame throwing action.

Lee Docherty went on a wild ride in the braking area in his Pac Performance Mazda MX5 at the weekend’s Sydney Jamboree.

Local Adelaide Top Alcohol Funny Car team A1 Drag Racing and their pilot Gary Busch will welcome the ANDRA Drag Racing Series big guns from interstate with open arms at the VPW Racer Payouts Pro Series 1000 on March 14-15 – then try to beat them.

Western Australian Russell Ladbrook is on the path to recovery after his scary run into the sand trap at Washpod Nitro Max last weekend at Perth Motorplex.

Maurice Fabietti heads to Adelaide International Raceway for the VPW Pro Series 1000 March 14-15 in the groove following a solid start to the 2015 ANDRA Drag Racing Series Top Doorslammer championship.

Australia’s Richie Crampton has claimed yet another award, this time the prestigious RACER Magazine 2014 Rookie of the Year award.

Glenn Moore is one of the true ‘wild men’ of the Aeroflow Outlaw Nitro Funny Car tour and the northern Queenslander will be racing the Fast Company Plymouth at the Adelaide International Raceway event to be held on Saturday, April 4 2015.

When New Zealand’s Rod Harvey hits the track at Willowbank Raceway on April 4 for the Santo’s Super 3 Extreme Drag Race Event presented by Uplift Cranes and Titan Cranes, he will be doing so with the aim of taking on the world.

Bob Godfrey Racing and Steve Easton have once again teamed up to lay down some winning numbers on the Auto Club Famoso Raceway in Bakersfield, California at the Good Vibrations Motorsports March Meet. This Trans-Pacific partnership is built on horsepower, with Bob behind the butterflies and Australian born Easton in the hot seat of Godfrey’s ‘72 Cuda Nitro Fuel Coupe.

Overnight the Bahrain based EKanoo Racing team has smashed the fabled five second zone with their six cylinder 2JZ powered Supra driven by American Gary White.

One of the wildest blown race cars around will be returning to the track at Sydney Dragway’s Day Of The Drags on the 29th of March.

Reigning ANDRA Top Fuel Champion, Phil Lamattina has launched his season with a pair of second places at the Perth Motorplex, whilst brother John has secured fourth place in the championship standings following some consistent performances in the second Fuchs Top Fuel dragster at the Nitro Max event.

The second round of the 2015 Street Series was held at the weekend, with Ken Rice (Street Bike), Jody Wentworth (Powder Puff), Mark Allan (Street Eliminator), Ray Ross (Hot Street) and Paul Doeblien (Quick Eliminator) taking victory.

The 2015 APSA Pro Street season launched on the short track at Portland’s South Coast Raceway last week with a increased number of competitors attending the first round over last year’s corresponding event.

Damien Harris made it two championship round wins from as many nights at Perth Motorplex, backing up for a second victory at Washpod Nitro Max.

Damien Harris has made good progress on his promise of making this his championship season with a win in a spectacular opening round of the ANDRA Top Fuel Championship at Perth Motorplex.

Drag News Australia, in partnership with ANDRA, will be providing live updates from racing this Saturday and Sunday at Perth Motorplex as part of Washpod Nitro Max, featuring ANDRA championship rounds of Top Fuel and Top Fuel Motorcycle.

A Top Fuel dragster, two nostalgia Nitro Funny Cars and two Top Fuel Motorcycles were among the vehicles greeting those few who made their way to the mid week test and tune at Perth Motorplex ahead of Washpod Nitro Max this weekend.

The Australian Top Fuel Championship gets underway at Perth Motorplex this weekend when the ANDRA Drag Racing Series returns for Washpod Nitro Max February 28 – March 2.

After a landmark year ending in championship success in 2014, Lamattina Top Fuel Racing will tackle the 2015 season with a bigger raceshop, updated equipment, two full-time drivers and a promise to ‘go all out for another championship.’

The fourth issue of Drag News Magazine is now available! We have a whole bunch of amazing stories in this issue. Find out about Bill Goonan’s rough road into Top Doorslammer, Modified Bike racer Ian Read’s amazing recovery from a road accident to winning the Westernationals, why the Leake family has gone turbocharged, race coverage from the Westernationals and so much more. We went to the quickest alcohol crew chief in the world, Greg Gower, to give us a low down on methanol fuel systems, while Sydney Dragway general manager Luke Smith tells us about some of his plans for the future. You can view the magazine in the embed below or else click here. To view the full version of the e-magazine costs US$3.99 (about AUD$4.89 this morning) but we reckon the best option is a subscription at US$34.99 (about AUD $42.83 this morning). A subscription means you’ll get 12 issues of Drag News Magazine for less than the cost of nine! Sorry about the US dollar stuff. The magazine software will prompt for payment to view all the pages. This means signing up to an account on Joomag and entering credit card or PayPal details through their secure server. Once you have a log in, you can also download the Joomag app to view the magazine on your phone or tablet. When viewing on a desktop, we recommend clicking the full screen button to get the best experience. You can zoom in by double clicking anywhere on the page and zoom out by double clicking again. *Please note* we are aware of a technical issue where a user who has subscribed or purchased an issue already may be asked to pay again for their subscription or issue. The work around is to make sure you are logged in to joomag.com first and then either click on ‘My Library’ within Joomag or simply come back to the magazine embed on this page. If you do need technical assistance send an email to luke@dragnews.com.au. {fcomment}

Twenty year old Nick Baxter made a spur of the moment decision last month to take his stock 2003 Nissan Navara V6 to Willowbank Raceway for the opening round of the 2015 Street Series, and now heads to this weekend’s round two (Saturday 28 February) as the defending Street Eliminator class winner.

Willowbank Raceway will once again play host to the thunderous roar of flame-throwing Nitro Funny Cars when the Aeroflow Outlaw Nitro Funny Car Show, presented by Donnelly Blasting Services, comes to town on 12 September 2015.