The South Coast Drag Racing Association is proud to announce a new sponsorship deal with FUCHS Lubricants (Australasia) Pty Ltd.

It has now been just over a decade since Ravenswood International Raceway closed, marking the end of just over 30 years of history.

The new Sydney Dragway racing season has been launched with the rebranding of the track championship to the “NSW Drag Racing Championship Series”, for which the first round of six has been run and won.

  Round Two of the NSW Championship Series is back over two big days on Saturday the 20th and Sunday the 21st of August and will feature Nitro Funny Car action.

Hot on the heels of Phillip Lamattina’s Eliminator Racing Series (ERS) proposal, Pro Series Drag Racing Australia (formerly known as DRAG Ltd) released yesterday their proposal for the ANDRA Pro Series. ANDRA has released a statement about the ERS, showing it is considering all options for the sport.

The Top End Nostalgias came to an eventful end on Saturday night at Hidden Valley Drag Strip where a competition event had to be cancelled for the first time in over a decade.

There has been much speculation about the ERS Proposal that has been developed and distributed by Phil Lamattina. ANDRA would like to advise that the proposal which was officially received on August 1 will be tabled for discussion at the next ANDRA Board meeting which is being held in Sydney on August 20/21.

Usually ANDRA would conduct it’s AGM around mid to late August, given that ANDRA Incorporated is now the Australian National Drag Racing Association Limited, the ASIC timeframes allow for the AGM to be conducted within five months of the end of the financial year.

Maurice Allen and his team can now report that the Team Milwaukee Tools Pro Stock Bike Team has been able to wrap up the 2011 ANDRA Pro Series Championship this year.

Adam Croker is making the shift to centre-steer this season with the debut of his Top Alcohol Funny Car.

  Photos by Grant Stephens, Hayley Turns, Paul Drady (www.cacklingpipes.com) and Rob Sparkes

Nostalgia drag racing is set to visit Hidden Valley this weekend as the Top End Nostalgia’s gets under way at 3pm on Saturday.

Aeroflow Performance Products is pleased to welcome the Fowler Family Racing to the Aeroflow Drag Racing team.

Willowbank Raceway will host the 9th annual ‘Mopar Sunday’ show this Sunday, July 31. Mopar enthusiasts will have the chance to either watch or take part in a range of events including drag racing, a dyno shootout, show and shine and a swap meet.

It has been six weeks since Sydney Dragway has seen any serious horsepower action with track works taking longer than planned. But the end result was a billiard table smooth surface that greeted over 140 racers last weekend for the first test and tune of the new season.

The 2011 Winternationals ended with an anti-climax with rain again disrupting racing during the event, in an unprecedented year of natural disasters and heavy rain in the east coast of Australia. The ANDRA Pro Series Top Doorslammer Series qualifying was completely washed out forcing the original qualifying order to be used, and the heavens opened up again on Willowbank International Raceway just prior to the finals – forcing another cancellation.

Weather did its best to derail the final round of the ANDRA Pro Series for the season at the Castrol EDGE Winternationals but Queensland local Shane Tucker and his team did a great job to get the Monster Energy-powered Monaro amongst the action in a crazy weekend of racing.

The Castrol EDGE Winternationals and the Australian Championships final round at Willowbank Raceway have concluded with the event being a total washout! ANDRA is extremely disappointed that such an important component of our events calendar has concluded in such a way. Notwithstanding that, ANDRA has already commenced planning a new “National Events Template” which will ensure that new risk mitigation strategies will be in place to prevent a re-occurrence of last weekend’s outcomes.

Matheson had top qualified a month earlier, only to see the meeting postponed due to rain.

Newly crowned Australian Top Fuel Champion, Darren Morgan put in a stunning performance at the re-running of the Castrol EDGE Winternationals at Willowbank Raceway, only to be cruelly robbed of a chance to win the coveted Title.

Sydney Dragway has released a statement addressing concerns about the 2011 FUCHS Australian Nationals.

In their ongoing efforts to support the Australian motorsport industry and improve safety within a sport they’ve been involved with for more than 25 years, comes the announcement today that Australia’s biggest independent oil manufacturer – Hi-Tec Oils – will return to Sydney Dragway to join the venues new management team in securing a stronger future for the popular western Sydney facility.

Aaron Tremayne was the big winner at the Castrol EDGE Winternationals, taking his fourth straight ANDRA Pro Series Pro Stock Championship at Willowbank today, despite being knocked out in the semi-finals and finals not taking place due to a freak shower.

The Castrol EDGE Winternationals has resumed in spectacular fashion today at Willowbank Raceway with today’s focus on Sportsman testing and racing before tomorrow the big guns of the ANDRA Pro Series hit the track.  

For Steve Read, this weekend’s goal for the Castrol EDGE Winternationals re-run is simple –‘We’re here to spoil the day for some of the bigger teams and put on a great show’.

The Board of the Australian National Drag Racing Association Ltd announced today that ANDRA Deputy CEO Greg Humphreys will assume the responsibilities of Acting Chief Executive Officer.

Significant work has been undertaken on the Sydney Dragway racing surface over the past month with the aim to improve the racing surface.

Whilst most of the on-track action at the resumption of the Castrol EDGE Winternationals this weekend July 15-17 will be focused on cutting edge technology, a celebration of the sport’s history will be taking place off track.

Darren Morgan and the AEG Powertools/Hungry Jack’s Mildura Top Fuel team are poised for a strong continuation of the postponed Castrol EDGE Winternationals this weekend at Willowbank Raceway in Queensland.