Mark Mariani took out his first-ever Australian National Drag Racing Association (ANDRA) Pro Series title when he won Top Fuel at the recent Nitro Champs at Sydney Dragway (SD), Eastern Creek.

Round Two of the Nitro Magazine South Queensland Eighth Mile Drag Racing Series has seen more than 100 racers hit Ironbark Raceway at the weekend.

58 teams paid respect to the late Beat the Heat crew chief, John Sorensen on Friday night at Hidden Valley Drag Strip as part of the Hogs Breath Cafe John Sorensen Memorial.

During their April meeting, the National Control Council of the Australian National Drag Racing Association (ANDRA) commissioned a new project.

After almost 20 years as major sponsor of Australian drag racing legend Victor Bray and his multi-ANDRA Championship-winning team, a change in investment priorities will see Castrol relinquish naming rights sponsorship of Team Bray Racing at the end of 2010.

100 Proof blown FED of George Zammit is set for its comeback.

DNA has been informed that a very popular drag racer has lost his long time sponsorship.

Chris Tynan and the Century Batteries 55 Chev are living proof that “Murphy’s Law” is alive and well!

Three times Aussie Top Fuel Champion Phil Read made it into another consecutive final.

As from today, Pro Street racers Simon Kryger, Johnny Wilson, and John Habib have purchased the A.P.S.A from founder Anthony Di Fabio.

We may see a change in Top Doorslammer rides very soon.

Local father and son team Laurie and Garth Fitzgerald will be just two racers of many expected to front up this weekend at Ironbark Raceway.  

Ironbark Raceway Roma will be running a Supercharged Outlaw bracket in conjunction with the Nitro Magazine Eighth Mile Series on Saturday 15th May.

Willowbank Raceway has released the draft schedule for the upcoming Winternationals.

After setting their quickest pass of the season so far during qualifying for the Nitro Champs at Sydney Dragway Darren Morgan Racing (DMR) entered Eliminations among the favourites for the title but it wasn’t to be as the AEG Dragster was knocked out in the Semi Finals by eventual winner Mark Mariani.

The desire to go nitro racing is one many drag racers have, but there is more to nitro than ANDRA Pro Series Top Fuel.

The lights are set to drop and the fun begins at the JSM John Sorensen Memorial on Friday 14 May at Hidden Valley Drag Strip.  The third event in the Beat the Heat Off Street Series is sure to pull a hungry crowd.

With Australia’s biggest drag racing event – the Winternationals – coming up, Drag News Australia is excited to have Willowbank Raceway aboard as a new sponsor.

 As required by the ANDRA Constitution, “half elections” are held annually in each Division for Delegate positions on the six Divisional Councils. At the same time each year, elections are conducted for three of the six Division Director positions. In 2010, this occurred formally in South Queensland, New South Wales and South Australia. In Northern Australia, a Division Director election was necessary with the resignation of David Barrett in 2009.

All the action from the recent Top Doorslammer event at Mildura’s Sunset stip, will tear up your TV screen this Sunday from 1pm  

An untidy first round exit at the Sydney Nitro Champs wasn’t enough to wipe the smile off the face of Iluka’s Maurice Brennan.

The Castrol EDGE Winternationals at Willowbank Raceway (June 10-13) are shaping up as a ANDRA Pro Series barn-burner after Sydney’s penultimate championship round at the weekend saw a number of the title fights set to come right down to the wire.

Sydney Australia’s largest city, was host to some of the most exciting ANDRA Pro Series Top Doorslammer drag racing last weekend at the Nitro Championships and John Zappia managed to knock out Championship leader Judd, and go on to the finals with Maurice Fabietti. The championship race has now hotted up with one round to go.

Thirteen time National Top Alcohol Champion Gary Phillips has all but cemented his fourteenth championship at Sydney Dragway’s Nitro Champs in the Lucas Oils Chev Monte Carlo.

The team is back home from their penultimate round at Sydney Dragway, ready to defend their championship title to the end.

The calendar for the 2010/2011 ANDRA Championship Drag Racing season, incorporating the ANDRA Pro Series and the Rocket Allstars Racing Series has been announced.

WA racer Craig Head is moving along in rebuilding his Supercharged Outlaws altered after a crash in testing a few months ago.

In what was a hectic six week lead-up to Sydney Dragway’s flagship event, the Fabietti piloted and powered Holden Trade Club Monaro took on and took out the country’s best ANDRA Top Doorslammer racers at the Nitro Champs.

  SFI advised the racing community that Impact Racing suits bearing 3.2A/5 certifications “made prior to 2009 have been constructed with non-compliant materials that, in SFI’s judgment, pose a safety risk to users of those suits.

The 2010 Nitro Champs at Sydney Dragway will go down as one of the greatest ANDRA Drag Racing events ever, and certainly one of the very best in the several year history of the Eastern Creek located venue.