In an example of just how tough Perth drag racing has become, Rob Pilkington missed making the final by mere hundredths of a second at the second round of the WA Top Comp championship.

Drag racing in north-western Victoria could get a boost depending on the results of a business plan from Swan Hill Rural City Council.

In the last 12 months, there have been a number of significant changes taking place to the drag racing landscape in Australia, not the least being the restructure of ANDRA Ltd board, which we support.

In some very sad news to report before Christmas, very popular ACT racer Dennis Moreau passed away suddenly today, and last week NSW racer Sean Brown also passed unexpectedly.

A change in licensing and vehicle equipment regulations will allow racers of high performance, off street vehicles to continue to participate in the safety of Australian National Drag Racing Association (ANDRA) sanctioned off street events.  

For those of you who missed the debut of Graeme and Wendy Cowin’s Psycho III AA/Fuel Altered at the Nostalgia Drags in November then you’re in for a real treat.

Phil Parker found himself frustrated by small mechanical issues in round two of the ANDRA Pro Series in Perth recently.  

ANDRA Pro Series Top Alcohol points leader Gary Phillips experienced the highs and lows of drag racing all in just a few seconds last month.

A new independent director has been appointed to the board of the Australian National Drag Racing Association.

The very best that the sport compact drag racing world has to offer will soon be on-track and racing as part of a national series with the formation of Factory Extreme – a category that sees the quickest and fastest full-chassis fours and sixes as well as two and three-rotor machines in the land race heads-up.

The Australian Nostalgia Fuel Association (ANFA) honoured its first group of Pioneers in a ceremony at Sydney Dragway on Saturday, November 19th, the evening before the running of the inaugural Rocket Retro Drags and Nitro Fest. The awards were sponsored by Dragster Australia.

Super Gas spokesman Michael Bibby today announced that round 3 of the Southern Super Gas Series will be held on Sunday March 4th 2012 at Ballarat’s 1/8th mile track.

2012 is just around the corner and With that the Sport Compact Group are happy to announce the dates for the Sydney and Brisbane Jamboree’s in 2012.  

While on a short trip to the USA visiting the Jan-Cen racing team in Las Vegas, Mifsud had the pleasure of spending some time with Mike Janis and Terry from AJPE.

ANDRA would like to announce that Victoria/Tasmania division director Neil Hendry will be stepping down from the role due to increasing business commitments.

http://www.dragnews.com.au/images/stories/MISC/2011/juddaeroflowsml-1.jpg SINCE rFactor’s release back in 2005, sim racers worldwide have wanted for their own drag racing version of the game and after 3 years in the making, DragFactor creators are proud to announce that their long awaited sim title is making its way to the startline!

Drag News Australia is trialling a new layout to make sure all our visitors get the latest news as soon as it happens.

Australian multiple Top Bike Champion, Chris Matheson and his Nitro Voodoo Team won at Round 2 of the ANDRA Pro-Series Championship at the Perth Motorplex last weekend.

On the back of this first five second ET last month Sean Mifsud today punched into the 5.8 second zone in testing.

The Nitro Funny Car feature for Willowbank Raceway’s New Year Series in January has been canned.

Defending Australian Top Fuel champion Darren Morgan bowed out in the opening round of the second event of the ANDRA Pro Series Championship in Perth.

Damien Harris took his maiden win the ANDRA Pro Series on Saturday night as he defeated Andrew Cowin in the final of Top Fuel’s second championship round in Perth.

Following the announcement of the new insurance arrangements by Perth Motorplex last week, a number of rumours and questions have come to the track’s attention.

Join Dragnews right here for our coverage of the ANDRA Pro Series round of Top Fuel and Top Bike Friday Dec 2nd and Saturday December 3.

Willowbank Raceway has formed a new association with Cruzin Magazine which will see Nostalgia drag racing at the facility under the care of Willowbank Raceway management.

The Piranha Family racing team to go time travelling on nitro with a piece of Funny Car history.

http://www.dragnews.com.au/images/stories/NonANDRAMajors/Adelaide261111/benbrayadelaide.jpg After a 10 year absence from Adelaide International Raceway the sound of a Top Doorslammer made its long awaited return. Team Bray spent three days prior to the event promoting at different venues around Adelaide.

Rob Pilkington achieved a long held dream on November 19 at Perth Motorplex when he won his first event in the ANDRA Pro Series Top Alcohol division.

  Damien Harris will return to his home crowd more experienced this weekend after racing in the USA several weeks ago.