Defending Super Street Queensland Drag Racing Champion Lucas Holz will be looking to continue his dream run from the opening round of the championship this weekend when he gets on-track for round two (Saturday 16 May) before returning just weeks later to take-on the Fuchs Winternationals (June 4-7).

After the traditional wet season break, plenty of teams are eager to dust off their race suits and get down the track in what will be the first competition round of 2015.

Tickets for Australia’s Fuchs Winternationals (Willowbank Raceway, QLD: June 4-7) are on sale now – for event information, click here.

The Central Australian Drag Racing Association are set to receive a $1.1 million war chest handed down in the 2015 Budget to improve Alice Springs Inland Dragway to international standards.

Unfortunately bad weather meant the cancellation of the Nitro Champs prevented Sydneysider Carl ‘Chevy’ Taylor from making his Summit Racing Equipment Sportsman Series debut in Super Sedan.

PremiAir Racing is currently seeking two long term crew members to participate in a competitive Top Fuel racing team.

Victoria’s Wayne Price will debut his new Top Alcohol Funny Car next month at the largest championship drag racing event held outside of North America – the Fuchs Winternationals (June 4-7, Willowbank Raceway).

Drag News Australia has released its first print edition of Drag News Magazine featuring an interview with ANDRA CEO Malcolm Bulley.

A limited print run of magazines has been made available for online order for the first time, following on from the release of an e-magazine six months ago.

Drag News Magazine editor Luke Nieuwhof said that with the support of the Australian drag racing community the Drag News team would aim to make the magazine an enduring part of the sport's media landscape.

“It is certainly a leap of faith for us as to go to a print magazine and we are doing a lot of learning along the way,” he said. “We hope that people will support us in these early stages so we can provide them with the magazine they want and deserve.”

The following statement has been released by Sydney Dragway management regarding the Nitro Champs this weekend.

Rookie Top Alcohol driver Mark Hinchelwood is confident the Sainty Blind Obsession Funny Car is on the verge of a breakout pass with the team yet to run the full quarter mile distance.

Willowbank Raceway has hosted a bumper weekend of racing, with round two of the JP Racing Eighth Mile Drag Racing Series hosting a record-breaking 207 entrants before 150 machines of yesteryear hit the track in the hotly-anticipated return of Nostalgia drag racing to the facility.

Joe Khoury has paid tribute to his Trivett Harley Destroyer for the remarkable consistency he has enjoyed recently in Modified Bike.

New South Wales’ Fire and Rescue heroes will be well represented at the Nitro Champs, with an officially endorsed dragster and its owner/driver Simon Van Ballekom set to be a part of O’Rourke Motorsports event campaign this weekend at Sydney Dragway.