For Ben Bray the 2012 Brisbane Jamboree was a dream come true, taking delivery of Ness Racecraft chassis only four and half weeks ago, Ben, his crew and some loyal supporters had worked overtime just to get the car finished and ready for qualifying at the largest Hi-Tech drag racing and import car event in Australia.

The 2012 Track Championship Series was run for the last time on Saturday night at Hidden Valley Drag Strip with the series remaining undivided for some categories.

Funny cars will star at this years Judgement Day at Sydney Dragway with a number of nitro and alcohol plastic fantastic floppers booked to headline the USA vs AUS muscle car bonanza. Judgement Day is on at Sydney Dragway on Saturday the 22nd September, pre 1978 Aussie and American muscle cars go head to head on the drag strip.

Join Christine Steffens and her pet crocodile this Saturday September 22nd at Benaraby with off street racing on the 21st.

More than 200 racers will hit the track this coming Saturday and Sunday when Australia’s largest hi-tech automotive lifestyle event, the Jamboree, comes to Willowbank Raceway.

Judgement Day on Saturday, September 22 featuring the Queensland vs NSW Nitro Funny Car Shootout when Rod Bailey’s Chemical Warfare will take on Sydney’s own Chris Stipanovich (above) in the Syndicate II Nitro burning beast!

The Australian Super Gas Racers will run a five-round Southern Super Gas Series this drag racing season, with four dates confirmed.

After spending many years on the other side of the racetrack and behind a keyboard, this drag racing tragic and curious reporter decided to experience what he now can describe as the greatest adrenalin rush on planet earth, a pass down a dragstrip in one of Fastrack’s modified dragsters.

Gordon Crawford will have a new look on his Top Bike come next season.

Nostalgia Nitro Funny Car is another class rapidly expanding in popularity and hardware with the latest being a 1969 Dodge Charger Funny Car just purchased by the Schultz family.

After the sale of the Spinozzi Racing Pontiac GTO, new plans have been put into place to bring the team further ahead in development and performance. The Spinozzi Racing team would like to announce that for the upcoming ANDRA Pro Series Pro Stock season they will be campaigning a 2013 Chevrolet Camaro built by Jerry Haas Race Cars.

Outlaw 10.5 continues to expand its ranks, with cars coming from overseas to locally built rides like these two new editions belonging to Shane O’Sullivan and Mick Duggan.

We have seen Peter Blakes new Mustang Doorslammer at Slamfest events in primer, well the car now has had a splash of paint and is looking sensational.

Former Pro Stock champion Aaron Tremayne says the team has spent the off season developing the horsepower needed to fire back into form for the start of the ANDRA drag racing championship season at Adelaide International Raceway on October 20.

The second last round of the Track Championship Series was run on Saturday night at Hidden Valley Drag Strip and several brackets are still no closer to having a decisive winner in the end of season point score.

Debbie O’Rourke has posted some photos of a familiar look for the O’Rourke Motorsport team as they look for a return with a Monaro in Top Doorslammer.

Re-live the sports golden days and join other like minded racers and fans in celebrating our past champions.

  It is just two weeks until Porters Racing are in the USA taking delivery of the first 2013 Ford GT500 Shelby Pro Stock Mustang from Jerry Haas Race Cars in Missouri.  

A WA racer is reported to be shipping this USA-based Pro Mod shortly.

Queensland’s Steve Read will return to where his nitro career began when the ANDRA Top Fuel season launches at Adelaide International Raceway on October 20.

Several changes are to be made to the calendar for the 2012/2013 ANDRA Drag Racing Series season to ease pressure on racers.

The last two weeks has seen a fair bit of off season testing up and down the eastern seaboard, here is our Testing Times wrap up.

ANDRA members wishing to put in rule proposals should note that the period for submissions is now open. Members are invited to send in their rule proposals and have their say in the future of the sport.

Brrrrr!…That would best summise the non event that was Round 4 of the NSW Championships and Sydney Dragway. A cold snap and chilling gusty breeze that brought snow to many parts of NSW also sent track temperature plummeting to levels deemed unsafe by racers and officials causing the cancellation of the event with only a few brackets completing any rounds of eliminations.

The October 20 season opener for the 2012/13 ANDRA Drag Racing Series will see the return of the Pro Stock championship to Adelaide for the first time in over a decade, with a group of local racers keen to show off their skills in front of the South Australian audience.

With the Mac Tools US Nationals coming up this weekend in Indianapolis, Australia’s own Rapisarda Racing has been out testing with the Tommy Johnson Jr car.

Phil Parker has been announced as a new member on the ANDRA Board. Parker is the Victoria/Tasmania Division Director and a competitor in the Top Bike category.

NHRA is this year pushing its “Nitro Generation” marketing, but Australia has its own generations of drag racers whose offspring is following on in their passion for the sport – in this case it’s someone more of the “Methanol Generation”.

Aeroflow Performance Products and the Australian National Drag Racing Association (ANDRA) are proud to announce that Aeroflow will be the new naming rights sponsor for the ANDRA Sportsman Drag Racing Series.