The Alutech Funny Car was proudly parked back in the winner’s circle last Saturday, boasting the double jubilation of Crew Chief Brodie Pilkington’s first win and the continuation of his father’s second-round winning streak, as part of the Perth Motorplex Nightfire Jets event.

The professional ANDRA category of Top Bike will be renamed Top Fuel Motorcycle for the 2014 season in a rebranding move for some of the most powerful motorcycles on the planet.

Darren Morgan is very proud of the fact that he and his crew are based in Mildura, Victoria. He was once told that he would never succeed in Top Fuel because of his country location. About the only thing this achieved was to make him more determined to succeed and win.

One of ANDRA drag racing’s traditional trophies will be in for a change next season with the ANDRA plaque to be replaced by a silver version of the iconic gold Christmas tree trophy handed out at national championship events.

One of Australian drag racing’s nitro wizards, Paul Shackleton, is putting the finishing touches to a brand new car and will team with a brand new driver in Anthony Begley to take on the huge field of Aeroflow Outlaw Nitro Funny Cars on November 23.

Willowbank Raceway’s Board has confirmed that the iconic FUCHS Winternationals will return to a traditional Thursday to Sunday event format from 2014 while remaining on the Queen’s Birthday long weekend.

The Australian Nationals was a roller coaster ride of emotion and nail biting action for Pro Stock racer Jason Grima. On the cusp of winning the 2012-13 ANDRA Championship, the Sydney racerwas also looking to make it a double celebration by hopefully winning his first national Pro Stock event.

Greg and Kim Clayton completed a fairy tale ending to the 2013 Aero Flow Drag racing season by claiming the Australian Championship in Competition Eliminator with a  runner-up spot at the Australian Nationals on Sunday.

Multiple Top Fuel drag race champion, Steve Read’s Australian Nationals campaign did not quite go to plan when engine parts being sent from America went missing on the way to Australia.

It’s been a roller coaster of a season and one mixed with all the highs and lows that championship drag racing provides.

Just days remain until the hotly anticipated Willowbank Raceway Track Championship Season Finale hits Queensland’s premier drag racing facility this Saturday, 16 November 2013.

Reigning Top Comp Champion, Rob Pilkington will continue his title defence this Saturday after beginning his campaign with a B-Final appearance at the Perth Motorplex Grand Opening just over a week ago.

TSP Racing’s Steve Ham has boldly claimed the runner up spot in the ANDRA Top Alcohol Championship with a finals appearance at the series final in Sydney Dragway on Sunday.

The jewel in regional South Queensland loacted Warwick Dragway’s crown is their annual Dragfest supercharged spectacular. The weekend of high horsepower is all about Warwick’s motto “Good Times, Great Racing”

The longest run season is championship Drag Racing history came to an end last weekend @ Sydney Dragway.

The Aeroflow Outlaw Nitro Funny Cars has a new star and it’s not another new driver – it’s a new car. Named the Nitro Sheriff, the wheelstanding funny car will be entertaining the crowd at the Sydney Dragway’s US versus Australia event on November 23.

The Australian National Drag Racing Association (ANDRA), the drag racing sanctioning body of Australia, has announced a tie up with AKT Strategic Consulting as part of its overall strategy to expand overseas and seek global partners.

Ballarat drag racer Matt Forbes struck gold in Sydney twice on the weekend, claiming two major trophies on the same day.

Queensland brother and sister Scott Bettes and Kelly Corbett were part of an Australian-first at Sydney Dragway’s Australian Nationals when they lined up against each other in the final for the Modified bracket at the weekend (1-3 November 2013).

Team Bray Racing’s Victor Bray has come oh-so-close to a final round win during the 2012/2013 ANDRA Top Doorslammer Season Finale with an Australian Nationals final appearance against eventual winner John Zappia.

For Chris Hall and Tony Bellert there will be absolutely no margin for error when it comes time to hit Willowbank Raceway for the Track Championship Season Finale on 16 November 2013.

  Willowbank Raceway’s FUCHS Winternationals was honoured this evening at the Ipswich Chamber of Commerce and Industry’s Business Awards, in which the event was one of three finalists for the Ipswich Turf Club Tourism/Event of the Year Award.

The Australian Nationals rounded out the longest ANDRA season in decades on Sunday at Sydney Dragway with dramatic final rounds crowning the champions in hot and windy conditions.

Qualifying and racing results from the 2013 Australian Nationals Sydney Dragway. Updated over qualifying days and racing. UPDATED to include race day results and day 2 gallery.

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After a string of open and private test days at Sydney Dragway we are on the eve of the Australian Nationals 2013 edition which for this year doubles as the grand final for all ANDRA Championship classes. Here is a wrap of testing and a truckload of photos to get in the groove for the next three days of action.

If not working hard for his sponsors, or mixing it up on the TV screen on the ABC comedy series Upper Middle Bogan, Darren Morgan is also battling it out in the 2012/13 ANDRA Top Fuel championship.