For the sixth straight year the Day Of The Drags nostalgia event at Sydney Dragway has been rain effected, here is what did happen before the wet stuff fell again.

There is a lot more to Vee Dubs than Hollywood’s Herbie, there are now some serious machines making the rounds and a wide cross section of them rocked up to the VW Showdown at Sydney Dragway.

The event formerly known as the Nitro Champs has been renamed to the X Champs just under two months ahead of the event. Uncertainty remains as to whether or not the headlining Top Fuel category will appear.

The Super Street class is in theory all about bracket racing cars that are streetable, though many teams are now removed from that origin. This is far from the case for Carl Taylor.

With round two of the Street Series run and won at Queensland’s premier drag racing facility at the weekend, ‘mad March’ at Willowbank Raceway is well and truly underway.

One of the stars of the Mildura Powersports festival held over the Easter weekend, the Aeroflow Outlaw Nitro Funny Car Show, will boast a massive 10 car, flame throwing, ground pounding line-up on a brand new racetrack.

It is with regret the Australian National Drag Racing Association (ANDRA) wishes to advise members, competitors and fans that the Central Australian Drag Racing Association (CADRA) will not be in a position to host Top Doorslammer and Top Fuel Motorcycle at the 2014 Desert Nationals.

Round two of the Steel City Drag Club Championship coming from Whyalla in South Australia had near perfect weather for racing on the eighth mile venue.

Benaraby Raceway’s new season has launched with the running of round one of their Central Queensland Drag Racing Association track championship series.

The recent Westernationals was not short on action of both the good and the bad kinds, with two separate two-car incidents in the braking area. One of those featured Trent Morrison’s altered and Paul Carey’s Mazda gasser and we have the amazing onboard video.

Judging by the smile on Darren Morgan’s face you could tell he was happy to be back inside the cockpit of his 8000hp Top Fuel dragster and racing against the best in ANDRA Championship Drag Racing.

The time has arrived as fans of the National Hot Rod Association gather for the 56th annual March Meet at Famoso Raceway, March 6-9 in Bakersfield, California.

Late February saw just under 120 competitors compete for old school glory at this year’s first Nostalgia event at Willowbank Raceway.

Shane Tucker’s brand new 2014 Z28 Camaro has rolled out of Jerry Bickel Race Cars and into the eager grips of the team.

Alberta’s Dean Branham who’s super radical 1967 Barracuda is one of Canada’s most popular and creative Outlaw 10.5 cars has received a significant engine upgrade for 2014.

Reigning Top Doorslammer champion John Zappia has gained valuable championship points with his team’s performance at the Westernationals with a B Final win and top ET and MPH in the first of the two championship rounds staged at the event.

Darren Morgan showed missing the opening event of the season has done little to slow the Victorian American Imports dragster after taking a win on night two of the 43rd annual Westernationals at Perth Motorplex.

Phil Lamattina has extended his run of Top Fuel wins to three following the first of two Westernationals championships rounds as Peter Kapiris returned to form in Top Doorslammer.

It was a great night for it as the 43rd Westernationals kicked into gear on Friday with qualifying for Round 3 of the Aeroflow Sportsman Drag Racing Championship.

The Kings of the Sport, Top Fuel are making there second championship appearance this season at Perth Motorplex and will feature a field of six nitro-burning dragsters.

Drag racing is a real family affair in more than one Adamos household as the passion and enthusiasm is passed from generation to generation, from the now closed Ravenswood International Raceway to the world class Perth Motorplex.

This weekends ANDRA Top Doorslammer Rounds 2 and 3 at the Westernationals in Perth will be very hot – both in temperature and competition, and the champ John Zappia is ready to give it all.

Wayne Jones is facing a long recovery following a testing accident several weeks ago with his blown alcohol dragster at Willowbank Raceway. Drag News caught up with the Queensland driver.

The first round of the Top Doorslammer championship produced a bunch of unexpected results with the more fancied teams caught short in the performance stakes, those underdog teams are once again pumped to repeat at this weekends Westernationals.

Four times ANDRA Drag Racing Series Top Fuel champion Darren Morgan and current series leader Phil Lamattina are crossing the Nullabor to put on a show and come away with the first ANDRA Gold Christmas Tree of the season at the 43rd Westernationals this weekend.

In the lead up to this weekend’s Westernationals at the Perth Motorplex, Oakford drag racer Rob Pilkington has made the bold decision to hunt for national records rather than local series points.

QDRC Outlaws to provide home for turbocharged and nitrous-powered V8s to race against supercharged V8s at Willowbank Raceway

The decision to pay only winners and runners up at Sydney Dragway’s large ANDRA events has been changed with semi final and quarter final pay outs to be made, scaled to spectator numbers.