Rodney Hansen will make his first appearance at Mildura Sunset Strip next week as the Queenslander looks to build on his Fuchs Winternationals victory with an Australian Supercharged Outlaws Championship.

Rick Neilsen is just one of a host of Queenslanders, not to mention another Winternationals winner, making the trek south to Mildura as part of a start studded field for Round 9 of the Aeroflow Sportsman Drag Racing Championship this weekend.

Just a week after PAC Performance reset the rotary world record for speed at 223mph during the Jamboree, those pesky Puerto Ricans have stolen it back again and then some, resetting the record three times during a Sport Compact event at Maple Grove Raceway in the USA.

Calder Park’s Street Outlaws ran on another Sunday afternoon for their thrid round of qualifying. Cars were lined up onto the highway and there were an impressive number of spectators watching as the battle for bragging rights continues to grow.

Mark Sheehan recently got his final fitting for a new Top Fuel car he is having built at Morgan Lucas Racing in Brownsburg, Indiana and Drag News was there to get a sneak peak at this mean-looking ride.

With only six total professional passes at Lucas Oil Raceway in his career, Pro Stock driver Shane Tucker had a solid weekend at the Chevrolet Performance U.S. Nationals despite a first-round loss.

One of the biggest stars of last year’s Sydney Dragway Aeroflow Outlaw Nitro Funny Car event will be replaced by one of drag racing’s most famous names, with Tommy Johnson Jr filling the boots of Ron Capps for the ‘Night of Fire’ Funny Car show at Sydney Dragway on November 29.

Ten of the fastest sport compact cars on the planet combined with good conditions, a sticky Willowbank track and an awesome crowd to put on a show for the ages as Factory Xtreme set about the business of breaking records – world records!

Richie Crampton expects the phone calls and text messages to really fire up tonight as Australia wakes to the news that it has a US Nationals Top Fuel champion.

Australian Top Fuel driver Richie Crampton has won the US Nationals at Indianapolis Raceway Park.

Positive news from Indianapolis Raceway Park – every Australian and Australian team who has hit the track has qualified for race day!

Australia enjoyed good times as the US Nationals moved past the halfway point with Richie Crampton and Rapisarda Autosport International in particular finding success.

GEICO/Lucas Oil Top Fuel dragster driver Richie Crampton drove to the final round of the Traxxas Shootout on Saturday night at the 60th running of the US Nationals.

The 60th US Nationals overcame rainy periods on Friday to turn in an interesting day of qualifying as teams around Indianapolis Raceway Park took different strategies into their runs.

Testing ahead of the tomorrow’s event has been hectic when the world’s fastest compacts battle for Jamboree glory.