Multiple championship-winning Rapisarda Racing drag racing team is set to race a Nitro Funny Car in Australia after purchasing an ex-Don Prudhomme Racing, 2008 Monte Carlo NHRA car.  

This Sunday June 6 will see 120 Castrol EDGE Winternationals entrants take the opportunity to milk the very best out of their high powered machines at the official Winters Warm-Up test day ahead of the June 10-13 event.  

APSA has a new number one in Pro Street Blown after the 2010 Nitro Champs.

Tristan Triccas and Jason Mansweto came to the 2010 Nitro Champs and unleashed hell on their Pro Street competitors.

After several incarnations the ex-Mal Gower Austin A40 is now in the hands of Rex Webster.

Construction of Peter Kapiris’ new Top Doorslammer is nearing completion.

Four-time Australian Pro Stock Champion Peter Ridgeway will make his long awaited return to the category at the upcoming Castrol EDGE Winternationals.

Mark Mariani has been officially announced as the permanent driver of the Black Widow nitro FED.

After consultation with Australia’s Nitro Funny Car advocates recently in Sydney, it has now confirmed, the overdue appearance of Drag Racing’s most unpredictable creatures will now be unveiled at Sydney Dragway on Saturday, July 31 and Sunday August 1.

Adam Thompson proved that getting the right advice and spending the time to sort out a consistent race car will get results, winning the WA Super Street championship in his first full season of competition.

Twenty Pro Stockers will take to the track next weekend for a 16 car field at the Castrol EDGE Winternationals.

Race report from Sydney Dragway’s nostalgic private track day

The Cosmic Enterprises Junior Dragster Challenge, this Saturday June 5, has secured in excess of 80 eight to seventeen year olds for the special juniors-only event.

 In an exciting new growth stage at Youngblood Ink, they welcome their newest staff member, Rachael Altair.

What infamous internet warrior and ANDRA Pro Series crewman is itching to get out onto the black sticky surface and strut his stuff as a driver? 

Word has it there is a jet funny car (possibly two) on the way to an ANDRA Pro Series racer.

Making his first appearance in the ANDRA Pro Series at the Nitro Champs in Sydney was Victorian rider Rob Cassar – and it didn’t take the long time sportsman rider long to make an impact.

  Sneaking in at the recent Day Of The Drags at Sydney Dragway was former HAMBster racer Coral Dyer with her new perfectly presented Modified dragster.

Four-time Bathurst 1000 winner Greg Murphy and 2005 V8 Supercar Champion Russell Ingall will trade twists and turns for the straight quarter-mile at the Castrol EDGE Winternationals.

At the upcoming Winternationals the George & Rocky Rehayem will face off in Pro FX for the first time.

In excess of 480 drag racers will converge on the Willowbank Raceway near Ipswich, Queensland next month to compete in the largest drag racing event outside of North America – the Castrol EDGE Winternationals.

The S & S Motorsports & Trailer Sales Team debuted new livery at the recent Top Fuel Championships meeting at Willowbank Raceway.

Perth Motorplex has announced a change in its management team. Ray Treasure has resigned as drag racing manager, citing the workload pressures involved in running modern drag racing operations.

One of drag racing’s veteran race cars has been lost in an on track accident.

Now knowing that former Pro Stock champion Peter Ridgway will debut his new car at the Winters, there is speculation as to the TBA entry.

Recent converts to Supercharged Outlaws McCormack Racing have signed Mr Filter – Truck & Earthmoving Superstores as a primary sponsor.

Top Fuel will face one of its most exciting championship deciders in recent years at the Castrol EDGE Winternationals (June 10-13), with just 25 points separating a three-time champion, reigning Champion and a new championship challenger in the race for the title.

Drag racing as a sport defies comparison, but to us it is more like a game of chess than of outright driving skill.