He may have once been called Australia’s fastest teenager but Western Australian Shane Weston has grown up and is now hunting down the highly respected records of the Top Alcohol Dragster class.

A new venture for Sydney Dragway has been the introduction of “Bike Night” sponsored by Harley-Davidson of Blacktown and they are starting to gain momentum in popularity with the addition of some dial your own racing for spice.

Racers had the chance to blow away their New Year’s cobwebs at Sydney Dragway’s Full Throttle Friday event, the first serious hit out at the venue for 2014. Read on as we take you through some of the highlights of the round.

Rob Pilkington is aiming for a third straight Top Alcohol win in Perth when the ANDRA Drag Racing Series opens up for the category at the Pro Showdown on January 31/February 1.

Six-times Australian Top Doorslammer champion John Zappia is readying for round one of the 2014 series in two weeks but already has a focus on a new race format that will take place at the Westernationals in March.

Richie Crampton ran a new personal best in pre-season testing in Florida this morning, carding a 3.808 pass at 323mph over 1000 feet at Palm Beach International Raceway in Florida.

Richie Crampton continued to build his Top Fuel experience at Palm Beach International Raceway earlier today, making two tyre spinning runs as the NHRA gets its official pre-season test on in Florida. Crampton, from Adelaide in South Australia, was announced as the driver of the Morgan Lucas Racing/Geico dragster last year. Thanks to the wonders of social media, here are a few images of Crampton at work. We wish the best of luck to a man who is out there living the dream! #NHRA @MLRtopfuel driver @richiecrampton launches off the @RacePBIR starting line during a test run pic.twitter.com/82QaKmV8Jh — Mark J. Rebilas (@rebilasphoto) January 17, 2014 @richiecrampton strapped in and ready to go @MLRtopfuel @GEICOPowersprts #NHRA pic.twitter.com/Y2WBTJzZzr — Morgan Lucas (@Morganlucas34) January 14, 2014 @richiecrampton testing in S. Florida getting ready for the @MelloYello season launch in just 3 weeks. #NHRA pic.twitter.com/dvFdh1HWsK — NHRA (@NHRA) January 17, 2014 Thanks to those awesome dudes at bangshift.com you can watch the replay of the day’s testing below! Richie’s runs are at about 20 minutes and two hours and 19 minutes in. Video streaming by Ustream {fcomment}

An auction of unique motorsport items is taking place to help out a young Darwin boy who is hoping to be able to move to Perth to be closer to where he has his medical treatment.

Mouhamed Ibrahim’s gold-plated, rotary-powered BMW has certainly prioritised show over go in recent years but that is set to change with the blinging Beemer recently heading into the Pac Performance workshop for a massive increase in power.

Australia’s biggest field of nitro cars is heading to one of the country’s prettiest racetracks with the Aeroflow Outlaw show heading to Fuchs South Coast Raceway near Portland, Victoria for February 1.

Pro Modified Australia has made the announcement that the Slamfest series, which took many of Australia’s Top Doorslammer stars to regional venues, will not be happening this season. The predominantly eighth mile-based series said through their official Facebook page that due to the larger amount of rounds than before in the ANDRA national championship, Slamfest would not be happening at all this year. A number of replies to comments on the page had indicated that the series would not go ahead but this is the first official word that has been provided. Slamfest was originally created by Top Doorslammer racers to give themselves more events to race at, but with the addition of Melbourne and Adelaide to the national calendar recently dates have been harder to come by. The Slamfest events were renowned for attracting big crowds of spectators and delivering wild supercharged sedan action. “The drivers and teams of the Slamfest series want to thank all their supporters. And would like to say that we hope to be back in the near future. To bring the fastest door cars on the planet back to the regional tracks where it all started,” the statement concluded. Regional tracks aren’t likely to be left completely in the cold, with the Aeroflow Outlaw Nitro Funny Car series expected to attend many of the same venues as Slamfest. {fcomment}

Jett Racing’s Kelly Corbett is New Zealand-bound after she was selected as just one of four Australian drag racers to compete as ‘feature acts’ in the upcoming 2014 V Four and Rotary Nationals (25/26 January 2014).

Shane Tucker has showed off the new look that will go on to his NHRA Pro Stock Camaro plus the truck and trailer ahead of the season opener at Pomona in just a few weeks time.

In drag racing’s fast street car genre — the Outlaw 10.5 category is certainly well worth fan attention and some Ontario-based drag racers are helping to take that class to a higher level within Canada.

Australia’s Top Fuel season begun on Saturday but it wasn’t the only nitro action down under with New Zealand seeing its first pairing of locally owned Top Fuel dragsters at Fram Autolite Dragway’s Nitro Shootout in Meremere.

Graham Slapp has always had a passion for the unique and for variety, but it’s fair to say he has never quite found a comfortable place in a sport where variety is never short.

Six new national records were set, all in the Aeroflow Sportsman Drag Racing Championship, at Perth over the weekend despite maximum temperatures well into the forties.

Australia has a new Top Fuel pilot commencing licensing with Peter Xiberras recently beginning the process at Willowbank Raceway.

Reece Fish was testing at New Zealand’s Fram Autolite Dragway in Meremere last week when things got very hot for the man who was, at least until this weekend, the New Zealand record holder with a personal best of 5.22 seconds. Earl Edwards of Popeye Pics captured this firey sequence. Cool, things look alright so far. Image by Earl Edwards. Uh oh, beginning to spin the tyres pretty hard, will it hold? Image by Earl Edwards. We have ignition. Image by Earl Edwards. Where there’s fuel, there’s fire! Image by Earl Edwards. If you look closely you can see the bank manager wincing in the background. Image by Earl Edwards. Well, at least the fire’s out… Image by Earl Edwards. …and there are some cool souvenirs. Image by Earl Edwards. And here’s a video recorded from the stands. The good news for Reece Fish is that he managed to get it all back together for the Nitro Shootout held on Saturday at Meremere. We’ll be bringing you a mini report from the event soon! {fcomment}

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It was the Phil Lamattina show once again with the Fuchs dragster powering to an impressive win for his second ANDRA Silver Christmas Tree in as many nights in round two of the ANDRA Top Fuel championship.

Phil Lamattina turned in a bracket-car like performance to win the opening round of the ANDRA Top Fuel championship while Mark Drew dropped some quick passes on the Top Fuel Motorcycle field to also earn victory.

The ANDRA Drag Racing Series fires up for 2014 at the Nitro Max event at Perth Motorplex this weekend, with double header championship rounds of Top Fuel and Top Bike plus the second round of the Aeroflow Sportsman Drag Racing Championship.

After a promising last event was brought to an early end with a mechanical issue, Nieuwhof Family Racing is ready to go again for the second round of the Aeroflow Sportsman Drag Racing Championship this weekend at Perth Motorplex.

The Aeroflow Sportsman Drag Racing Championship will see a new format used this weekend at Perth Motorplex for the four-wheeled Group Two categories.

Glenn Everitt, host of popular television show Man and Machine, is going to take to the wheel of an Aeroflow Outlaw Nitro Funny Car as the TV star completes his ANDRA licencing procedure.

After several seasons spent racing in the NHRA, Rapisarda Autosport International (RAI) say they are turning their focus back to the ANDRA Drag Racing Series for the coming season.

Western Australian Terry Burnett’s lead up to the opening round of the ANDRA Drag Racing Series in Top Fuel Motorcycle has been anything but smooth and we’ve got the pics to prove it.