27 March 2011

It was all about the locals at Willowbank Raceway's Top Fuel Championships this evening; with two of the three ANDRA Pro Series categories - Top Fuel and Pro Stock Bike - coming down to state-pride battles between locals and Victorians, while the third, Top Bike, saw two Brisbanites battle for the win.

26 March 2011

Top Fuel racer Phil Lamattina has provided a perfect opening on a perfect day to Willowbank Raceway’s Top Fuel Championships, with a blistering 520 plus kilometre per hour record-setting pass to close out qualifying tonight.

26 March 2011

At a Special General Meeting in Adelaide this morning, the vote to change the Australian National Drag Racing Association Inc to a company limited by guarantee was supported by over 97 percent of those voting. Members from four states were present at the meeting and hundreds of Proxy Voting Forms were processed under the scrutiny of the Returns Officer.

24 March 2011

This weekend at Willowbank Raceway, Mildura’s Darren Morgan aims to continue the impressive form that sees his AEG Powertools backed team leading the ANDRA Pro Series Top Fuel Championship by 74 points.

24 March 2011

Just in time for Boomeracing's pilgrimage to the east coast, the World's Quickest Commodore is starting to do as she's told, says owner/driver Maurice Brennan.

24 March 2011

Riverlink Shopping Centre provided the perfect precursor to tomorrow’s Top Fuel Championships kick-off with a special fan night in its foodcourt this evening.

23 March 2011

Two forty-year old Australian drag racing legacies collided last weekend as fifteen time national champion Gary Phillips celebrated four decades in the sport at the 40th Annual Westernationals at the Perth Motorplex.

Turn back the clock forty years, and on opposite sides of the nation, two drag racing icons were being birthed simultaneously, with the advent of a young apprentice radio and television technician from Townsville taking his first looks at the quarter mile on the eastern seaboard, while a courageous group of racers in the west were at the same time forming a fledgling event that would be boldly titled "The Westernationals."

23 March 2011 (updated 24/03/11)

Due to wet conditions Round Three of the 2010/2011 ANDRA Pro Series Pro Stock Championship was cancelled last Saturday after one qualifying session was completed.

23 March 2011

Top Fuel drag race team, Rapisarda Racing and driver, Terry Sainty, will start an odyssey this weekend that will see the Sydney-based team and driver race at two events on two continents in seven days.

Sainty and multiple Australian championship-winning Rapisarda Racing/Titan Cranes team will start their epic journey this Friday and Saturday (March 25-26), racing in round five of the 2010-2011 (Australian National Drag Racing Association) ANDRA Pro Series Top Fuel championship at Willowbank, Ipswich.

23 March 2011

As a result of the inclement weather that impacted this past weekend's Aeroflow by Rocket Industries Pro Stock round, the Tremaniac racing team will return to Sydney Dragway to complete the event.

23 March 2011

The event that the Jason Hedges Racing (JHR) team had been looking forward to for quite some time has been postponed until April 8 and 9 due to inclement weather in the Western Sydney area over the past 72 hours.

23 March 2011

There was an air of excitement leading towards the Aeroflow by Rocket Industries Pro Series event at Sydney Dragway. Along with ANDRA Championship rounds for Top Doorslammer and Pro Stock, the nitro Funny Cars of Graeme Cowin and Chris Stipanovich were set to make exhibition passes throughout the two-day event. Both cars had proven performance and the conditions were shaping up to see new personal bests and or records broken. Unfortunately rain set in prior to the first match-up, and despite the best efforts to dry the track, racing was cancelled on Friday night. Saturday morning was no better with further heavy rain leaving organisers no option but to cancel the event.

23 March 2011

Just weeks ago Aussie Top Fuel racer Terry Sainty fulfilled a lifelong dream – to race in the NHRA Full Throttle Series in the United States.

22 March 2011

After two blistering qualifying passes, recording a 6.282 sec at 219.51 mph and a 6.231 at 211.26 mph, the Nitro Voodoo Team were set for an exciting round of Eliminations on Saturday night.

22 March 2011

LTFR IS pleased to announce that young gun Aaron Hambridge has accepted the position of crew chief on the Fuchs Top Fuel Dragster for the 2011/12 season.