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.

  Mark Sheehan’s Top Fuel dragster may be a rare sight but when it does come out to race it means business.

Since the late 1970s, drag racing has provided me with a mixed range of experiences. While still an avid spectator, I witnessed the sport encounter its first major setback in NSW – the closure of Castlereagh which, for too long, left the sport homeless in Sydney.

The Terra Civil/Hitachi Construction Machinery GTO has been spending a lot of time testing in preparation for next year’s racing round in Perth.  

Don’t be anywhere but South Coast Raceway Portland this Saturday with 5 Supercharged Sedans, 2 Supercharged Funny Cars, 2 Turbo Sedans, 1 Supercharged Dragster, 1 Supercharged Altered and a Turbo Rotary enterered. Bring it on…!

A sneak peak of Australia’s first full rotational track prep machine in action.

Former ANDRA Top Fuel Champion, Phil Lamattina will be taking a brand new FUCHS/Monster Energy dragster to the Perth Motorplex as the team look to build on the momentum gained at the FUCHS Australian Nationals in Sydney.  

O’Connor Motorsport was looking to take advantage of improved performances in the team’s XP Falcon Doorslammer during the Goldenstate Titles at the Perth Motorplex and after sorting some small issues, that’s exactly what they did.

Australia’s premier Drag Racing facilities – the Perth Motorplex and Queensland’s Willowbank Raceway – have today introduced a wave of new initiatives designed to make it easier for new Drag Racing enthusiasts to start out in the sport.

Fifteen time national champion Gary Phillips recorded the quickest and fastest run in Australian Top Alcohol history on Friday night before a parachute failure beached his Lucas Oils Top Alcohol Funny Car in the sand trap at the Perth Motorplex 40th Annual Goldenstates event.

Current Australian Top Fuel Champions, Darren Morgan Racing are heading across to Perth for the first of two ANDRA Pro Series Championship rounds at the Perth Motorplex on December 2-3 with an eye on the double prize.