The Perth Motorplex pit expansion should provide a bunch more room for racers in the west, who had been finding space getting more and more cramped as entries at the venue rose.

VP Fuels has announced it will not be homologating the Roo 25+ fuel for the coming season.

This season will see Queensland based Top Alcohol Funny Car pilot Debbie O’Rourke tackle two of the sport’s premier classes with an updated ride in Top Alcohol Funny Car and a return to the supercharged sedan ranks with a new Pontiac. She spoke with Drag News about the team’s big plans in drag racing.

Test for HV

As racers regroup during the off season in preparation for the marathon that will be the 2013 championship season, we take a peek at some off the off season movements in the ranks.

Drayton’s Nathan Jannusch is looking to achieve a trio of ‘three from three’ results when he heads to his home-track of Warwick Dragway next weekend for round three of the JP Racing Queensland Eighth Mile Drag Racing Series.

The inaugural Hidden Valley round of the national Slamfest Series has already broken records and it’s still over a week away.

Local pre event press had suggested that this would be the best ever event for the Benaraby Raceway and the 32 year old track lived up to expectations. With spectator cars lined up for almost half a kilometre to get into the venue, event organisers called for the Doorslammer to delay the start of qualifying.

A hotly contested Round 4 of the Track Championship Series was seen at Hidden Valley Drag Strip on Saturday night where for the first time this season Dieter Herrmann was knocked off the first place podium.

Opening on 7th September 1980, the Golding Quarter was a seven year project for the Port Curtis Drag Racing Club.  Golding Quarter was named after the Golding Earth Moving Company and its owner Don Golding, whose earthmoving equipment was used in the construction.

Recently the ANDRA Board reviewed some of the recommendations of the National Rules Committee (NRC). The items addressed changes to the current ANDRA rules as proposed through rule submissions, in addition to changes to policies, rulings and other matters raised through the NRC in the interests of improving current standards.

Drag Racing Manager Peter Pike has resigned from the Perth Motorplex team, to take up a position in the WA mining industry.

A near capacity crowd turned up for the 2012 Trevor Mobb’s  Memorial 8th mile Slamfest round. The event no doubt will go down in history as the best ever event held at the Townsville dragway.

Quickfire results from Slamfest in Townsville, one of the final events before the track closes next month.

The Top Doorslammer final at the 2012 Fuchs Winternationals has been declared a non-result following investigation by a Queensland appeals tribunal.