This last weekend (June 4th and 5th), the PRE Motorsport team contested the Winters Warmups event held at Willowbank Raceway, Ipswich Queensland. Heading into the event the team was looking to improve on their personal best elapsed time and the team managed to do just that when the team recorded a 7.062 second pass during the first session on Sunday morning.

Another new world mark from the Australian sport compact scene was set at the last round of the Sydney Dragway Track Championship series, Po Tung became the owner driver of the world’s quickest full bodied Supra.

The Winter Warm Up is the prelude to the Castrol Edge Winternationals, a number of new cars debuted and many group one teams took the chance to test, here is some of the highlights with plenty of photos highlighting the action.

Staging the AEG Powertools/Hungry Jacks Mildura Top Fuel dragster has never been more nerve wracking for Darren Morgan than what it will be next weekend, it’s all he has to do in qualifying one to take the ANDRA Pro Series Top Fuel Championship.

US turbo tuner Travis Quillen has landed in Australia courtesy of Hi Tech Oils to lend his vast knowledge to Competition Eliminator racers Ash Hamblin and Matt Lisle at the Winternationals.

The turbo V8 scene is really starting to explode in Australia, while the scene still doesn’t sit comfortably in regular ANDRA competition they are making a serious Pro Street assault.

At the end of April, defending Modified national Champion Kelly Corbett suffered a heartbreaking blow – crashing her NSANE.net.au Modified dragster during qualifying for the penultimate round of the Rocket All Stars Racing Series chase.

The 2010/2011 ANDRA Pro Series Pro Stock season has not been the season that the Porters Racing team had hoped for. Business commitments and inclement weather have hampered their efforts but the focus is now on the Winternationals.

One week to go until 2011 Castrol EDGE Winternationals (Friday June 10 – Monday June 13)

Flying somewhat under the radar of the Australian motorsport rumour mill, multi-championship winning drag racer Allen Puglia has finally unveiled his new Ford Mustang, direct from the USA.

Drag Racing Australia Group Limited (DRAG Ltd) and DBC2 have jointly announced that DBC2 will not be renewing its involvement with ANDRA Pro Series Drag Racing sponsorship and marketing due to a change in business direction.

Drag News Australia brings you all the happening from this years Winters Warm-Up LIVE by our Cover-it-live module.

The new ANDRA Championship Calendar has been released for 2011-2012.

  A veteran of drag racing in Western Australia, Wayne Keys continues to impress whenever he competes in his supercharged Holden Monaro.  

This weekend’s Sydney Dragway’s Track Championship Final will see the debut of Cowin Family Racing’s latest Nostalgia Funny Car and Fowler Racing’s mountain motor GXP Super Sedan.

As far as last minute inclusions into the 44th Castrol EDGE Winternationals Top Fuel field goes – they don’t come much bigger than NHRA superstar, Cory McClenathan – who will take to the wheel of a Rapisarda Racing machine for the event at Willowbank Raceway, June 10-13.

Sydney Dragway recently held the 2011 NSW Junior Dragster Titles, sponsored by Rapisarda Racing in what turned out to be a fun filled day for everyone involved.

Junior Dragfest is set to blast off at its new home Warwick Dragway on June 4th and 5th keeping the event tradition alive.

Ex Super Gas racer Shannon Gaddes is about to make the little step up into his brand new and very extravagant Supercharged Outlaw Altered.

In an unfortunate racing incident at the Nitro Champs, held at Sydney Dragway on the 1st May 2011, the Mazda 6 driven by Rocky Rehayem crashed in the final of Super Compact.

John Zappia and his crew from Zappia Racing took the long haul road trip from Sydney to Darwin to compete in the Macmahon Grand Re-Opening of the Hidden Valley Drag Strip presented by 7mate, and had such a good time they vowed to return again.

More than 500 racers will take up residence at Willowbank Raceway across the Queen’s Birthday Long Weekend of June 10-13 as the venue hosts the largest drag racing event held outside of the US – the Castrol EDGE Winternationals.

The latest round of the ANDRA Pro-Series was held recently at Sydney International Dragway in conjunction with the Nitro Championships with a big 3 days of action planned covering just about all classes of racing.

Current ANDRA Pro Series Australian Top Fuel Championship leader, Darren Morgan isn’t allowing the frustration of the Sydney Nitro Champs get to him as he eyes off the season-ending Castrol EDGE Winternationals in just three weeks time.

For the Jason Hedges Racing team (JHR), the 2010/2011 ANDRA Pro Series has been a career year.  

If rumours are to be believed, and we stress these are rumours, a former big name driver/rider who participated across three categories reportedly has a new Top Doorslammer on the way.

If Darren Morgan claims the ANDRA Pro Series Top Fuel Championship at Willowbank Raceway’s Castrol EDGE Winternationals over June 10-13, it will be the first time an owner/driver has taken the title since Jim Read in 2006.

Australia’s flattest drag strip was officially re-opened by Senator Trish Crossin and Minister Rob Knight last night in front of a motorsport hungry crowd. The newly rebuilt Hidden Valley Drag Strip played host to eight Top Doorslammer teams from across Australia as part of the Macmahon Grand Re-Opening presented by 7mate.

Willowbank Raceway’s Castrol EDGE Winternationals will host John Barbagallo’s first ‘runs in anger’ at the site of his massive November testing crash.