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.

After rain for most of the prior day, a beautiful day dawned upon Willowbank Raceway for the penultimate round of the Track Championship.

ANDRA Top Alcohol and Top Doorslammer star, John Cannuli, has decided to go nitro racing after recently confirming that he and his team would field an Outlaw Nitro Funny Car at the November 23rd event.

Multiple Australian Top Fuel drag race champion, Steve Read, is looking to close out the 2013 (Australian National Drag Racing Association) ANDRA Drag Racing Series by winning his seventh Australian Nationals titles at Sydney Dragway this weekend (Friday-Sunday, November 1-3).

Team Bray Racing will head to Sydney Dragway this week for the final round of the 2012/2013 ANDRA Top Doorslammer Championship, to be held at Sydney’s Australian Nationals this Friday, Saturday and Sunday (1-3 November 2013).

In late September those flame throwing high revving Sport Compact racers were two stepping again at the Brisbane Jamboree, their flagship event. Our Queensland Drag News posse put together this wrap.

Sydney race fans might have their last chance to see nine times NHRA event winner Tommy Johnson Jr in competition in Australia when he competes at the Australian Nationals this weekend.

  Sydney Dragway will be the scene of one of the most anticipated Top Doorslammer showdowns in years from November 1-3 when Peter Kapiris and John Zappia take their championship fight into the final round of the season, the Australian Nationals.

Darren Morgan along with Luke Crowley and Graeme Morell etched their names in the history books as Group One winners at the Fuchs Nitro Thunder presented by Crow Cams meeting that saw return of ANDRA sanctioned competition at Calder Park Raceway for the first time since 2001.

One of Australia’s best motorsports facilities has undergone some recent upgrades with work undertaken in the braking area at Sydney Dragway, the home of the Australian Nationals.

The Australian National Drag Racing Association is pleased to announce the first five inductees into the ANDRA Hall of Fame.

The Aeroflow Outlaw Nitro Funny Car category continues to gain momentum with Victorian father and son combination, Stephen and Aaron Russell, taking delivery of their Mustang, imported from the USA.

Following the weekend’s Super Sportsman festivities at Willowbank Raceway, the stage is now officially set for the final hit-outs of Willowbank Raceway’s Track Championship.

Darren Morgan and Luke Crowley appear to have a lock on their respective ANDRA Top Fuel and Pro Stock Motorcycle championships after victory at Fuchs Nitro Thunder presented by Crow Cams on Saturday at Melbourne’s Calder Park Raceway.

Reigning Pro Stock Motorcycle national champion Lachlan Ireland will have no better opportunity to turn his season around than Fuchs Nitro Thunder presented by Crow Cams this Saturday at Calder Park as he gets to race at his home track for the first time in an ANDRA championship round.

Arguably the biggest name in Australian Top Fuel racing has partnered with Australia’s biggest name in hand tools, with the Victorian-based Lamattina Top Fuel Racing cars now sporting Sidchrome signage for the remainder of the 2013 season as well as 2014.

The week of the largest nostalgia drag race is finally upon us as some of NHRA’s best nitro drivers, past and present, are set to compete in this year’s California Hot Rod Reunion at Famoso Raceway in Bakersfield, Oct. 18-20. It is a chance for race fans of all ages to see how the world of drag racing has evolved over time.

One month ago ANDRA Pro Stock Motorcycle rider Scott White enjoyed one of his greatest drag racing wins since joining the professional Group One category in 1991.

Victorian Top Bike rider Graeme Morell is looking forward to the opportunity to show off his skills in front of a home town audience for the first time when he tackles Fuchs Nitro Thunder presented by Crow Cams at Calder Park this Saturday.

Morgan Lucas will climb out of the cockpit of the GEICO/Lucas Oil Top Fuel dragster in 2014 to devote more time to the family business, Lucas Oil Products. In his place, Lucas has promoted longtime crewman Richie Crampton, who recently earned his Top Fuel competition license during a test session at Lucas Oil Raceway in Indianapolis.

Read Speed Racing has secured the support of SuperCharge Batteries, Australia’s leading provider of high quality vehicle, marine and deep cycle battery models, for the final two rounds of the 2013 Australian Top Fuel Drag Race Championship series.

Fuchs Nitro Thunder presented by Crow Cams will not only be an important event as the first ANDRA Drag Racing Series round held in Melbourne since 2001, but it falls at a crucial time for the national championships of Top Fuel, Top Bike and Pro Stock Motorcycle.