Round five of Calder Park’s Street Outlaws exploded with a tough field of cars and bikes showing up, with the sun shining, the lanes full and a sticky track there were many new competitors out to try their luck and list their names on the Top 16 lists.

Western Australian drag racer Ryan Learmonth will be making his professional debut this weekend at Adelaide International Raceway, competing in Pro Stock Motorcycle at the Fuchs Springnationals.

Maurice ‘Momo’ Allen comes into the Fuchs Spring Nationals in Adelaide knowing Luke Crowley has a stranglehold on his second ANDRA Drag Racing Series Pro Stock Motorcycle Championship.

Reigning Australian Super Gas champion Matt Forbes has given his new Lucas Oil Chevrolet ’57 Corvette Roadster the thumbs up following its debut runs in Australia yesterday.

The Australian Supercharged Outlaws Championship is shaping up as one of the most intriguing battles of the 2014 Aeroflow Sportsman Drag Racing Championship.

Former ANDRA Top Fuel Champion Phil Lamattina is looking to take back his title and the Victorian farmer believes that Adelaide’s Fuchs Springnationals will be the make or break event for the team’s 2014 title tilt.

Rapisarda Autosport International Top Fuel pilot Allan Dobson has been taking mental reps and working with a sports psychologist to keep focussed on his tilt for a maiden ANDRA Drag Racing Series Top Fuel Championship.

Scott Porter will return to the driver’s seat of his Pro Stock Ford GT Mustang when the ANDRA Drag Racing Series visits Benaraby Raceway for the very first time this Friday and Saturday October 3-4.

Gary Phillips is heading to Adelaide this weekend for the ANDRA Fuchs Springnationals in the hope that last-minute lessons learnt in Top Doorslammer can help fuel his run to the Top Alcohol title next month in Sydney.

Racing a damaged Camaro following his touch up with the wall in Sydney at the X-Champs in May, Perth young gun Daniel Gregorini has a new look for his Adelaide International Raceway debut at this weekend’s Fuchs Spring Nationals.

The O’Rourke Motorsport show will soon be on the road to Adelaide International Raceway, where Grant O’Rourke and his Pontiac Firebird Top Doorslammer will compete in the Springnationals across October 4 and 5.

Aussie drag racing legend and Top Doorslammer champion John Zappia could add lucky number #7 to his six consecutive titles since 2008 this weekend at the Fuchs Spring Nationals in Adelaide.

Rob Cassar will make his competitive return at the Fuchs Spring Nationals this week after recovering from a high-speed fall at Sydney Dragway earlier this year.

There has been some angst with the recent announcement from ANDRA about the combining of Super Street and Super Sedan at the national level of competition. It is important to note that this will only effect National Championship events and unlikely to have any bearing on regular local track run events.

The highly anticipated Mariani Family Motorsport Supporting Make-A-Wish Australia, Black Tie Ball has been announced. To be held on Thursday, 30th October, the night before the start of the Australian Drag Racing Nationals at Sydney Dragway, the brand new floating Dockside Pavilion in Sydney’s Darling Harbour, will host what is destined to be the industry’s social event of the year.

The debut of Pro Stock at Benaraby Raceway sees a small four car field heading to central Queensland in the first time ANDRA has run rounds of its professional series simultaneously across two tracks.

South Aussie Mario Barbon is hoping it will be third time lucky when the Fuchs Spring Nationals take centre stage at Adelaide International Raceway next weekend.

Roma’s Laurie Fitzgerald heads to this weekend’s grand finale of the 2014 JP Racing Eighth Mile Drag Racing Series – to be held on Saturday 27 September at Ironbark Raceway – as a two-time champion in the box seat to clinch a third Series title.

Australian Steve Harker has continued his run towards a Top Alcohol championship in the USA, taking out the bracket at Texas Motorplex over the weekend.

The “Superman” RX3 piloted by Nick Tsoltoudis so named for habitually carrying the front wheels across the finish line looked like it had been affected by Kryptonite recently.

Auzmet Architectural Pro Stock driver Shane Tucker experienced a rare mistake, and it ended his AAA Texas NHRA FallNationals last weekend at the Texas Motorplex before he could get started.

Group Three dial-your-own racing in Australia will get one of its biggest shake ups in years for the coming season with the introduction of Top Sportsman eliminator among the new rules introduced for the 2015 season.

The Brisbane Jamboree has always been one of the premier Sport Compact events in the world, but suffice to say has been a little lacklustre over the past few years, however organiser Ray Box delivered a revamped show stopper this year that had the eyes of the world on Willowbank Raceway.

Last weekend saw some outright craziness from those Outlaw 10.5 pilots at Sydney Dragway, check out some of this footage.

Tony Wood’s first foray into nitro-fuelled motorcycles has so far proved fruitful, clocking a personal best time of 7.34sec. towards the end of last season at Perth Motorplex.

GEICO/Lucas Oil Top Fuel dragster driver Richie Crampton knows the 2014 championship is still within reach despite a first-round loss at the Pep Boys NHRA Carolina Nationals on Sunday.

The Pep Boys NHRA Carolina Nationals was postponed due to rain and deteriorating track conditions at zMAX Dragway. The decision was made to complete racing at the AAA Texas NHRA FallNationals at Texas Motorplex.

Perfect weather, perfect track conditions and a perfect performance from Craig Geddes headlined Round 9 of the Aeroflow Sportsman Drag Racing Championship at Mildura Sunset Strip.

The Sunraysia Region lived up to its name today as beautiful weather, excellent track conditions and a good crowd were on hand for qualifying in Round 9 of the Aeroflow Sportsman Drag Racing Championship.

The launch of the Mariani Family Motorsport Supporting Make-A-Wish Australia program was a huge success last night.