Australian innovation could soon be leading the way in the ANDRA Pro Series’ Pro Stock division with Queensland’s Tremayne family developing better ways of making the horsepower needed in the tightest category in Australian motorsport.

Willowbank Raceway and FUCHS Lubricants are excited to announce the leading lubricants company as the naming rights sponsor of the greatest spectacle in drag racing – the Winternationals.

Perth drag racer, Robin Judd fell just two-hundredths of a second shy of winning last weekend’s (March 3-4) 41st annual Westernationals and taking the Australian Top Doorslammer championship lead at Perth Motorplex, Kwinana Beach.

The FUCHS Lamattina Top Fuel Racing dragster is set to debut an amazing new cylinder head configuration, manufactured in Australia as a joint collaboration between Noonan Race Engineering and Advanced Performance Machining.

It’s no secret that Victor Bray has not enjoyed the same form in recent seasons as he did through his terrifying reign in the nineties.

Australian Top Doorslammer Champion John Zappia won a hard fought Westernationals on the weekend in Perth Western Australia in the Fuchs Lubricants / Procomp Electronics Monaro to further his recent winning ways and jump to the top of the 2012 ANDRA Pro Series Championship ladder.

While most other parts of Australia are suffering from constant rain, yet another drag car is heading North to make a new home at Hidden Valley Drag Strip, last month it was a new Top Alcohol Funny Car leaving the US destined for the shed of Jay Henning, this time it’s a Chevy Camaro recently purchased by Troy Wittwer.

The management of Heathcote Park Raceway are set for another massive day on their new track, with a field of Supercharged Outlaws heading up the Revhead Rubberfest this Sunday.

John Zappia seized the lead in the ANDRA Pro Series Top Doorslammer championship on Sunday with a close win over Robin Judd at Perth Motorplex.

This weekend’s upcoming Westernationals may play an early-season role in 2013 with ANDRA today confirming that it will be moving to a calendar year season.

Not since Victor Bray and the original wild bunch tour has Tassie been rocked like it was at Slamfest on Feb 18. With the exception of the odd visit by the likes of the Brays’, Fabietti and Stevens the apple isle has endured a drought of group 1 action. Over twelve months in the planning and due in no small part to the support given by Peter Kapiris, the Brays and Maurice Fabietti Slamfest Tassie was a huge success and testament to what a small but dedicated group of people can achieve.

Perth Top Doorslammer drag racer, Robin Judd, is optimistic that this weekend’s 41st annual Westernationals at Perth Motorplex, Kwinana Beach, will be his Australian championship game-breaker.

Nominations are invited from Full Members of ANDRA for the position of ANDRA Divisional Council Delegate in all ANDRA divisions.

The Southern Super Gas Series heads to Ballarat this Sunday March 4 for the third round of the series. This is another round robin event with the event winner receiving a bonus package of Lucas Oil products.

Some national records could be set to fall in the Modified division this weekend in Perth at the running of the Rocket Allstars Racing Series at the Westernationals.

Day of The Drags 2012 is fast approaching, the two day event at Sydney Dragway featuring pre-1975 vehicles, old-school drag racing for drag racers and families.

The nine-time championship winning Team Bray feels it will be up against it at Western Australia’s Perth Motorplex on March 3-4’s Westernationals.  

The Australian National Drag Racing Association (ANDRA) is rolling out new branding across the country to excite a new generation about the world of drag racing.

After a fifteen championship winning career spanning forty years, Gary Phillips made his first appearance in Tasmania last weekend claiming Top Qualifier honours in the third round of Slamfest at Powranna Raceway.

The ANDRA Pro Series continues its Perth stretch with Top Doorslammer and Pro Stock enjoying their last round of the western swing on March 3 and 4.

Word has it Outlaw 10.5, the fastest growing class in the US  will run as a exhibition at the Sydney Pro Series event in March.

To All Competitors and Race Fans, due to the extreme weather forecast for the next 24 hours, we have postponed the Cruzin Magazine Nostalgia Drags event until next weekend, Saturday March 3rd. The Test and Tune will go ahead on Friday Night 2nd March as well.

Prominent Gold Coast nostalgia drag racer Peter Leahy is well-known for his dragster exploits. Come this Saturday (25 February) however, Leahy will change things up a bit, making his ‘full bodied’ debut aboard the Peter Leahy Custom Imports Nostalgia Funny Car at the Cruzin Magazine Nostalgia Drags at Willowbank Raceway.

Sydney Dragway is still in testing mode with the first of the tracks major meetings a few weeks away yet, in meantime here is a wrap up of testing highlights from the last couple of weeks.

After competing at his first Westernationals in 2007, Darren Parker is returning to Perth in 2012, this time to compete in a strong field of Super Stockers in his Jerry Haas Pontiac GXP.