Peter Xiberras may not be competing at this week’s Gulf Western Oil Winternationals, but that doesn’t mean he won’t be keeping a keen eye on what is the largest championship drag racing event held outside of the USA.

There will be no team orders to win a championship according to Top Fuel team owner Santo Rapisarda, with Rapisarda Autosport International star Damien Harris needing to close a 33 point gap to series leader Kelly Bettes to win the 2017-18, 400 Thunder Championship at the Gulf Western Oil Winternationals on June 7-10.

The 2018 Gulf Western Oil Winternationals Warm Up continued on Sunday June 3, with Gary Phillips in his Pro Alcohol Funny Car having the run of the day with a 5.403/265mph, bouncing back from a disappointing Nitro Thunder event.

Willowbank Raceway’s Rob Oberg recently held this revealing sit down interview with doorslammer icon Victor Bray.

Pro Slammer has been shaken up with Scott Maclean dropping the categories quickest ever pass on day one of the Winter Warmups – 5.572.

The Atura Blacktown NSW Championship Series has reached its midpoint and takes a several month break heading into Winter.

The Gulf Western Oil Winternationals is a world class event, where over 500 race teams gather across four days in front of over 30,000 spectators to take part in the largest drag racing festival in the Southern Hemisphere.

Rod Harvey may drive a Toyota Celica but there is nothing pedestrian about this sports compact drag car: it is, in fact, the fastest import car in the southern hemisphere and the fifth quickest in the world.

Fans of two-wheeled action will not be left out in the cold at the Gulf Western Oil Winternationals with 76 motorcycle teams in total to play a part in the event.

Leonard Azzopardi has been leading the way in the no-bar bike scene for over a decade with his famous ‘Quicksilver’ Hayabusa, now his new creation ‘Outrun’ is writing its own records.

John Willard’s new supercharged Anglia is a very unique deal in Australia in this age, however they are still a common sight in the UK, and somewhere Willard hopes to race in the future.

The 2018 Gulf Western Oil Nitro Thunder (May 4-5) was a pivotal event for Jim Read Racing. Depending on the outcome, crew chief Bruce Read had left the door open for a possible appearance at the 51st Winternationals.

The Porters Racing team has had some time away from the race track in the past season or two, but the family team is happy to say they are making the trip to Willowbank Raceway for the 51st Gulf Western Oils Winternationals, and they aren’t coming just to make up the numbers.

The first time Chris Matheson brings his 1500 plus horsepower “Nitro Voodoo” Top Fuel Motorcycle to the start line at the 2018 Gulf Western Oil Winternationals, he will officially have wrapped up his fifth Australian Top Bike Championship. This is an accomplishment that will go into the drag racing history books and could well be an achievement never to be repeated again in Australia.

Sunoco Race Fuels and the Australian National Drag Racing Association are proud to announce a partnership between the two organisations which will see Sunoco as the official fuel supplier for all ANDRA-sanctioned events.

Bill Perdikaris is a quietly spoken, and always somewhat a dark horse in Pro Stock.

The Hidden Valley Track Championship Series in now in full swing after the running of round two last weekend.

Brisbane drag racer Steven Ham will be in unfamiliar territory at the Gulf Western Oil Winternationals from June 7 to 10 at Willowbank Raceway, the first time he has entered Australia’s biggest drag racing event in the Pro Slammer division.

In an Australian drag racing first, IHRA Australia and 400 Thunder are now going to reward the top five points scorers after the 51st Gulf Western Winternationals with the prestige of running a single digit number for the following season.

Queensland is proving to be the dominant State in Pro Stock competition right now but a seven event-long stranglehold on the category by one family has been broken, throwing the Gulf Western Oil Winternationals into unpredictable territory.

Steven Barnett went down in Australian drag racing history with the first six second pass by a 13B powered car in Australia, now he is aiming for the world record.

At Sydney Dragway’s rotary themed Race 4 Real, Eric Wolf in [TRIPLE] RX3 turned it on in front of the biggest Race 4 Real crowd we have seen at Sydney Dragway in recent memory.

With the 400 Thunder Pro Stock Championship reaching its crescendo at the Winternationals in just a few weeks time, Jason Hedges Racing is pushing hard for a best ever finish.

Danny Makdessi’s blown Valiant, dubbed the “Devil’s Taxi”, is one of the most stunning race cars in the country, and now it has just got cooler.

We teased Brendon Luke’s new Procharged altered recently, and now it has hit the track in full beast mode.

Wayne Daley steered the Diamond T Custom Tool Boxes Dodge to the winner’s circle at Sydney Dragway earlier this month, claiming maximum points in the process.

On the back of a huge Aeroflow Outlaw Nitro Funny Car show the Queensland Drag Racing Championship racers had the chance to show off their sportsman racing prowess in front of a great crowd for round three of the series.