At the 50th annual Westernationals at the Perth Motorplex, Dean Dawes and his ‘The Perthorican’ Mazda RX3 were recognised with the coveted Vinyl Wraps and Graphics Best Presented Award. “I was very happy to be awarded the Vinyl Wraps and Graphics Best Presented Award as there are some pretty e…

Billy ‘the Kid’ Kuhn recently broke through to take out not only the Whyalla Steel City Club Junior Dragster Championship, but also the Club’s highest championship accolade, the Charlie Dennis Trophy. The 12-year-old is the first ever Junior Dragster competitor to claim the prestigious Charlie…

At the 50th annual Westernationals, Jodi Thorstensen was recognised with the coveted Crow Cams Best Engineered Award. The Award came as part of a big weekend for Thorstensen and her crew, marking her comeback to racing 12 months on from a damaging accident at the same event the year before. “The 2…

Oil Filter Cutters: Racing’s can openers can help you discover hidden engine issues Story and Photos by Wayne Scraba & Summit Racing Cutting open a used engine oil filter allows you to literally dig into the actual filter element to see what’s going on inside your engine. If you cut open a f…

Sarah Donnelly concluded her Summit Racing Equipment Junior Dragster experience in the perfect way recently, taking out a hotly contested championship battle at the ANDRA Grand Finals. The 18-year-old apprentice fitter and machinist at Supashock has been racing since she was 11 years old and while s…

Paul Garbellini drove his Holden SSZ Commodore to not only the 2019/2020/2021 Summit Racing Equipment Sportsman Series Super Street Championship, but also to all of the extended season’s events. The 30-year-old FIFO mechanic from Western Australia started racing in October 2010 and is well known f…

The Australian National Drag Racing Association (ANDRA) is pleased to announce that the Sunraysia Drag Racing Association (SDRA) has been awarded a $500,000 grant as part of the Victorian Government’s Community Motorsport Program. SDRA worked with ANDRA and the Mildura Rural City Council to apply…

26-year-old stonemason Levi Addison may have grown up racing in other motor sports, but when his dad showed him photos of him drag racing in the 80s on an old Harley, he thought drag racing looked like fun and the rest is history. He may have only started his drag racing journey in 2019 –……

ANDRA is pleased to announce the next round of Rule Submissions which are in consideration for the 2021/22 Rulebook. The details of each Rule Submission can be found below. 2.1 Cylinder Heads in Group 2 (/MS). 2.2 G/Gas Induction Wording. 2.3 Chain Guards. 2.4 Junior Dragster Wording. 2.5 Removal of…

Port Lincoln’s Adam Mundy has been a fierce competitor in the Modified category for years, and at the recent ANDRA Grand Finals locked away back-to-back Summit Racing Equipment Sportsman Series titles in the bracket. How did you get into drag racing? I got started in 2013 at Whyalla. I had a blown…

West Aussie racer Martin Mirco recently secured back-to-back Super Sedan titles in the Summit Racing Equipment Sportsman Series. The 47-year-old has been racing since 1999, starting out going to Sunday street meets at the old Ravenswood Raceway in his 1957 Chev before in 2005 he decided to start com…

By simply qualifying for the event, Craig Geddes secured the Competition championship over runner-up Terry Waterman at the recent ANDRA Grand Finals. When 51-year-old Craig Geddes claimed the 2019/2020/2021 Summit Racing Equipment Sportsman Series Competition Championship recently, it was his sevent…

Accountant Christine Steffens had her hands very full at the ANDRA Grand Finals, walking away with not only her third Summit Racing Equipment Sportsman Series Supercharged Outlaws National Championship, but also the prestigious John Storm Memorial Trophy. In a campaign that started out as a holiday,…

The WA Drag Racing Grand Finals event will see what has been a highly competitive WA Drag Racing Championships season draw to a close this Saturday at the Perth Motorplex. One title battle that is sure to go right down to the wire is that of the Perth/Rockingham Harley Modified Bike class, with a lo…

Matt Forbes is a 47-year-old business owner who started competing in Super Street in 1993 and has won National events in Super Gas, Modified, Top Sportsman and Super Stock. Along the way, he has claimed no less than four National Summit Racing Equipment Sportsman Series Championships, the John Storm…