Brisbane’s Reddacliff Place was transformed into a nitro fan’s dream today when a taste of the Castrol EDGE Winternationals came to the city – ahead of tomorrow’s first day of the 44th Winternationals at Willowbank Raceway.

It is rumoured a well known Doorslammer identity will make a very special unveiling at this weekend’s Winternationals. Drag News special agent “69” has some sneak previews of this insane wrap.  

Current Porsche Carrera Cup Championship leader – Steve Richards is preparing for an altogether different challenge – he will be taking a Porsche Turbo road car onto the Willowbank Raceway quarter mile drag strip to race against a fully-fledged ANDRA Pro Stock racer at the Castrol EDGE Winternationals (June 10-13).

Powercruise has joined forces with Crossroads Racing for this weekend’s Castrol Edge Winternationals prior to taking their show to the USA for the first time this July.

Phil Lamattina has secured a personal sponsorship with LTFR team sponsor Monster Energy for the 2011/2012 ANDRA Pro Series Championship. 

The team at Dragnews Australia is bringing you live updates at the 2011 Winternationals from Queensland’s Willowbank Raceway. Commencing Friday June 10th through to the end of action on Monday our CiL module will allow you to interact with our producers and become part of this great race.

It’s with great pleasure that Paul and Scott Porter of Porters Racing welcome Hyne Timber to the Porters Racing operation as a major sponsor of the team’s Ford Mustang Pro Stocker.

It has been twelve months since one of the most dramatic two car accidents the sport has seen involving Supercharged Outlaws racers Paul Stephen and Neil Murphy.

The new Management Sub Board at Sydney Dragway has elected not to pay out prizemoney from the Nitro Champs event as it continues to work to stabilise the financial position of the facility.

The Top Alcohol racers have got together and decided to make the 2011 Winternationals a chance for us,the alky racers, to show our appreciation to all the Top Alcohol fans out there.

The Ipswich economy is about to a get a big boost thanks to some serious world-class horsepower in the form of the 44th Castrol EDGE Winternationals event at Willowbank Raceway.

Son of John Noonan, Jamie continues the family legacy at the 2011 Castrol EDGE Winternationals.

With the first meeting of the full Board and the gazzetting of the final approval of the Corporate Affairs Commission, the process of changing the Australian National Drag Racing Association Incorporated into a Company Limited by Guarantee is complete, apart from the final transfer of funds and assets.

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.