Tasmanian Modified Bike racer Shane Walker will be hoping for crowd support of a different kind at this year’s Nitro Champs as he continues to promote the plight of one of his home state's most iconic symbols, the Tasmanian Devil.

Milwaukee Tools Pro Stock Motorcycle rider Maurice Allen says the pace of all competitors is going to have to increase with many tough teams converging on Sydney Dragway for the Nitro Champs on May 3-5.

Three times ANDRA Top Fuel champion Phil Read will return to racing for the first time since the Fuchs Winternationals when he competes at the Nitro Champs at Sydney Dragway on May 3-5.

Sydney Top Bike rider Chris Porter is fully engaged in nitro warfare with drag strip rival Chris Matheson as the season reaches its mid-point at the 2013 Nitro Champs at Sydney Dragway on May 3-5.

Chris Matheson recently smashed the unofficial mark for the quickest and fastest motorcycle run in Australia at Willowbank Raceway and it’s all leading up to a potentially history making Nitro Champs at Sydney Dragway.

Phil Lamattina and arch rival Darren Morgan are locked together at the top of the ANDRA points standings after the Santo's Cranes Super 3 Extreme Drag Race at Willowbank Raceway.

Spectators at the 2013 Nitro Champs at Sydney Dragway, May 3-5, will get more nitro methane than they ever bargained for with the ANDRA Drag Racing Series championships for Top Fuel and Top Bike being combined with the return of Nitro Funny Cars to Sydney Dragway.

Brisbane-based Englishman Steve Read had one of the most memorable weekends of his career at the Santo’s Cranes Super 3 Drag Race at Willowbank Raceway by taking two wins in two nights under the double header championship format.

After netting the quickest time bonus points and a finals appearance at last weekend’s Santo’s Cranes Super 3 Extreme Drag Race at Willowbank Raceway, Steve Ham’s expectations of his new race car have been well exceeded.

Team Bray Racing’s Ben Bray is hoping to strike at this weekend’s Sydney Jamboree in the Pro Compact class, following the successful achievement of his goal to run a sub-seven second elapsed time at last weekend’s Santo’s Cranes Super 3 Extreme Drag Race event.

Australia witnessed its quickest ever drag racing pass on Saturday night at Willowbank Raceway when three times world champion Larry Dixon stormed to a 4.503 second time, as Queensland’s own Steve Read doubled up at the Santo’s Cranes Super 3 Extreme Drag Race.

The ANDRA Drag Racing Series heads to Willowbank Raceway for the Santo's Cranes Super 3 Extreme Drag Race.

We will bring you live tweets on the results as they happen plus be Instagramming and Vining our way through the event!

Last night at Willowbank Raceway, three times Top Fuel world champion Larry Dixon had one of the wildest moments of his racing career when a broken axle on his Rapisarda Racing dragster saw a wheel come off mid-pass.

Check out the footage! Now includes onboard shots.

Queenslanders pressed their home turf advantage at the Santo’s Cranes Super 3 Extreme Drag Race at Willowbank Raceway on Good Friday night with Steve Read and Darren Fry taking ANDRA Drag Racing Series wins as US visitor Larry Dixon got a wild introduction to drag racing in Australia.

Darren Fry will be able to satisfy a long obsession with Funny Cars come the Santo’s Cranes Super 3 Extreme Drag Race at Willowbank Raceway when he makes his debut runs in Top Alcohol.