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At a Special General Meeting in Adelaide this morning, the vote to change the Australian National Drag Racing Association Inc to a company limited by guarantee was supported by over 97 percent of those voting. Members from four states were present at the meeting and hundreds of Proxy Voting Forms were processed under the scrutiny of the Returns Officer.
Darren Morgan’s exceptional ANDRA Pro Series Top Fuel season continued at Willowbank across the weekend – taking the AEG Powertools machine to the Top Fuel Championships win and extending his Championship lead to 122 points.
It was all about the locals at Willowbank Raceway’s Top Fuel Championships this evening; with two of the three ANDRA Pro Series categories – Top Fuel and Pro Stock Bike – coming down to state-pride battles between locals and Victorians, while the third, Top Bike, saw two Brisbanites battle for the win.
Top Fuel racer Phil Lamattina has provided a perfect opening on a perfect day to Willowbank Raceway’s Top Fuel Championships, with a blistering 520 plus kilometre per hour record-setting pass to close out qualifying tonight.
Just in time for Boomeracing’s pilgrimage to the east coast, the World’s Quickest Commodore is starting to do as she’s told, says owner/driver Maurice Brennan.
Riverlink Shopping Centre provided the perfect precursor to tomorrow’s Top Fuel Championships kick-off with a special fan night in its foodcourt this evening.
Follow the team at Dragnews this Friday and Saturday with Drag News Australia bringing you coverage of the ANDRA Pro Series Top Fuel and Pro Stock Bike round live and interactive from Queensland’s Willowbank Raceway.
Due to wet conditions Round Three of the 2010/2011 ANDRA Pro Series Pro Stock Championship was cancelled last Saturday after one qualifying session was completed.
Just weeks ago Aussie Top Fuel racer Terry Sainty fulfilled a lifelong dream – to race in the NHRA Full Throttle Series in the United States.
As many racing and modified car fans will have read, the past few weeks have been an up and down ride for Top Alcohol drag racing outfit Team APM and the Hambridge family.
Top Fuel drag race team, Rapisarda Racing and driver, Terry Sainty, will start an odyssey this weekend that will see the Sydney-based team and driver race at two events on two continents in seven days.
There was an air of excitement leading towards the Aeroflow by Rocket Industries Pro Series event at Sydney Dragway.
With Mike Janis taking delivery of his Pro Mod Duster, the first of its kind from Andy McCoy Race Cars, we will see the next one from the shop destined for Australia.
LTFR is pleased to announce that young gun Aaron Hambridge has accepted the position of crew chief on the Fuchs Top Fuel Dragster for the 2011/12 season.
Two forty-year old Australian drag racing legacies collided last weekend as fifteen time national champion Gary Phillips celebrated four decades in the sport at the 40th Annual Westernationals at the Perth Motorplex.
Well folks despite our best endeavours and prayers the rain god was against us. We know this leaves us with ticket and entry fee issues – we are looking at this and will let you know via the website and email as to what will happen.
The 2010 to 2011 year has seen the Mackay and surrounding region receive considerable more rain than previous years and well above the region average. The Palmyra Drag Racing Club has been greatly affected by the flooding last year and the extended wet season this year.
More than 200 racers will head to Queensland’s premier drag racing facility this weekend for the Top Fuel Championships at Willowbank Raceway across March 25 and 26.
Fathers and sons working together is a combination that can often be one of extremes, but for father and son duo Peter and Maurice Allen, the pathway has so far been paved with success as they contest the ANDRA Pro Series Pro Stock Motorcycle championship.
With today’s washout of the Top Doorslammer and Pro Stock ANDRA Pro Series round at Sydney Dragway, it looks like Pro Stock will be reprieved from losing a valuable round with Sydney Dragway planning to rerun Pro Stock at the next round of the tracks Track Championship series.
Perth-based Top Doorslammer pro drag racer, Robin Judd, likes racing at the Sydney Dragway.
On the eve of the Top Doorslammer and Pro Stock ANDRA Pro Series round at Sydney Dragway, the venue has been a hive of public and private testing, here is a wrap up.
The power of forty two thousand horses will be hitting Queensland’s premier drag racing facility on March 25 and 26, when six flame-throwing, 7000hp Top Fuel dragsters head to Willowbank Raceway for the Top Fuel Championships.
A taste of the quarter-mile will take up residence in Ipswich’s Riverlink Shoppping Centre next week, in the lead up to Willowbank Raceway’s Top Fuel Championships (March 25 and 26).
Rob Pilkington took a strategic approach to Western Australia’s biggest drag racing event, the 40th annual Westernationals, and it paid off with a new personal best time.
Welcome to Drag News Australia’s live and interactive commentary of the ANDRA Pro Series Top Doorslammer and Pro Stock round from Sydney Dragway Friday March 18 and Saturday March 19th .
For the second time in the 2010/2011 ANDRA Pro Series, the Tremaniac Racing team will be hitting the track under a championship round format. Aaron Tremayne will be coming into the event the points leader, having won the only event to have been contested thus far this season, the season opener 2010 Fuchs Lubricants Australian Nationals.
The drought between Pro Stock events during the 2010/2011 ANDRA Pro Series will be bought to an end next weekend when the next round of the ANDRA Pro Series Australian Pro Stock Championship takes place at Sydney Dragway for the Aeroflow by Rocket Industries event.
The 2011 Queensland Street Car Magazine Eighth Mile Drag Racing Series has kicked into life with round one at Willowbank Raceway.
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