26 October 2011

No longer a dark horse, Rob Pilkington has become the man everybody wants to beat when he races at Perth Motorplex.

With the Force Equipment/Alutech Monte Carlo recently taking out its third Top Comp state championship in four years last season, there is no doubt that other teams have their sights set on knocking off the record setting Funny Car.

26 October 2011

The Australian Super Gas Racers will run a four-round Southern Super Gas Series this drag racing season, with three dates confirmed.

The series kicks off at Fuchs South Coast Raceway in November, returning to the Portland eighth mile facility in February and concluding at Sydney Dragway’s Nitro Champs event next May.

The Sydney event ties the series in with a round of ANDRA’s Rocket All Stars championship.

25 October 2011

Australian-built nitro Funny Car to debut at NHRA Nevada Nationals in Las Vegas. Four-time Australian Funny Car Champions Peter and Helen Russo will debut a brand new Australian-built nitro Funny Car at this weekend’s NHRA Big O Tires Nationals at The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway (27-30 October).

25 Octobert 2011

Rules submissions for inclusion in the 2012 / 2013 ANDRA Rulebook close in just one week on Tuesday, 01 November 2011.

25 October 2011

ANDRA hosted a successful Drag Racing summit, held at Sydney Dragway last weekend. Delegates from all over the country attended from various stakeholder groups to identify the prime objectives required for drag racing to secure a new and exciting future.

Delegates were allocated to individual groups, followed by general assembly sessions to summarize all information. Every delegate in attendance over the two days provided productive and positive input; everyone remained focused and constructively participated in all discussions.

28 September 2011

Chris Matheson’s Nitro Voodoo Team has won the opening Round of the Pro-Series Championship. The win took place at the recent Fuchs Australian Nationals held at Sydney Dragway over the weekend of 9-11 September.

Matheson also came away with Lowest ET for the Round, giving the Team a solid foundation for the new Season Championship points chase.

27 September 2011

Veteran Melbourne drag racing competitor and official, Ian Smith has described his and son Warren’s win at the recent Fuchs Australian Nationals at Sydney Dragway as the highlight of the family’s almost 50 years in the sport.

A lifelong fan, Smith senior attended the first Australian Nationals at the now defunct Riverside strip in Melbourne in 1965, most likely with his now 48 year old son as a babe-in-arms.

27 September 2011

This weekend Palmrya Dragway is conducting its pinnacle drag racing event “The Sunstate Nationals” that hosts round two of the ANDRA Rocket Allstars Racing Series, plus an extra feature of this years event is Nostalgia Nitro cars doing match races on the Saturday.

27 September 2011

The 2011 Track Championship Series came to a thrilling end on Saturday night at Hidden Valley Drag Strip where the series came down to the final passes of the season.

Going into the start of the final event, the first and second place holders for both Modified Bike and Outlaw brackets were separated by only five points.

22 September 2011

Cory McClenathan driving one of Rapisarda Racing's team cars won the Fuchs Australian Nationals after his last two trips "down-under" only resulted with a single pass per trip.

Here is an overview of Cory's drag racing career to date:

20 Spetember 2011

The finale of the 2011 Track Championship Series at Hidden Valley Drag Strip is sure to see competitors pushing their vehicles to their limits as the points chase comes down to the final round of the year.

20 September 2011

ANDRA Pro Stock star, Shane Tucker, has revealed his amazing new Pontiac GXP weapon amongst a capacity crowd of cars and stars at Victoria's Calder Park Raceway as a part of the Monster Energy Ken Block World Tour.

"It was an amazing day," laughed Tucker.

19 September 2011

In his forty-first year of competition, Gary Phillips has put the nightmare fortieth season behind him by winning the Australian Nationals in Top Alcohol at Sydney Dragway last weekend.

Labelling last season as a “cocktail of shocking weather and bad luck that I would rather forget,” Phillips committed to going back to a known parts batch this season, and right from securing the second qualifying spot at the start of the weekend with a 5.540 at 256.45 mph, the Lucas Oils Racing Team was back in the form that had earned their fifteen national championships.