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.