Nino Cavallo wasn’t even supposed to be in the Pro Stock field at the recent X-Champs after running a 7.429 to sit outside the field in 17th place. By the end of round 1, he had run low ET of the weekend.

Catch the action packed X-Champs on SBS Speedweek commencing this Sunday from 2-4 pm.

The X-Champs saw ANDRA Championship Drag Racing return in full force at Sydney Dragway on May 2-4. For Pro Stock Motorcycle it was round two of their 2014 Championship and Darwin-based rider Scott White was looking to take advantage of the small field of five bikes. 

This week, May 12-18, 2014 is National Volunteer Week across Australia.

Twenty-eight year old Grace Howell will make her debut in the Australian professional ranks at Willowbank Raceway’s FUCHS Winternationals (5-8 June 2014), competing in the Pro Stock category.

The FUCHS Winternationals is the largest championship drag racing event held outside of Howell’s home country – the United States of America – attracting up to 500 racers and approximately 30,000 spectators over its four days. 

It will be the first time the former professional NHRA drag racer will compete on Australian soil after moving to Australia in 2013 from South Carolina to be with her Australian partner and Pro Stock racer Scott Porter, and with years of drag racing experience behind her the petite blonde powerhouse is sure to be one to watch. 

“I used to race in the United States, really I grew up racing, first in Junior Dragster and then Super Stock, before going on to race professionally in the Sport Compact Series and in Pro Stock,” said Howell, the 1996 NHRA Junior Dragster National Champion who also boasts a Stock Automatic class win at the NHRA US Nationals (in a factory-backed Jet Cobra) and back-to-back NHRA event wins in June of 2008 (Pro Stock, Rocky Mountain Raceway and Stock Eliminator, Ohio).

Until recently, Daryn Schuster didn’t even know he was the owner of the Competition Bike D/AB mph record at the X-Champs.

Johnny Roso turned some heads last week at the 2014 X-Champs qualifying eighth to make the field on his ANDRA Drag Racing Series Top Doorslamemr debut.

Last weekend at the 2014 X-Champs, the Spinozzi Racing team made it through to the Pro Stock final round, scoring the runner up trophy against Aaron Tremayne.

Former Australian Top Fuel Motorcycle Champion Chris Matheson was uncharacteristically eliminated from the X-Champs with a red light at Sydney Dragway last weekend.

He may have been defeated on a holeshot in the X-Champs Junior Dragster final, but Toby Austin will take some consolation in scooping the 60foot Rising Star Award for Round 6 of the Aeroflow Sportsman Drag Racing Championship.

Following the X-Champs at Sydney Dragway, Team Bray Racing joined forces with the operators of the Fastrack Drag Racing Experience this week to create a high octane experience for long-time supporter, Gates Australia.

It’s hard not to talk about Alistair McClure and Kyle Putland as a pair after their record setting X-Champs weekend at Sydney Dragway.

It was no holds barred at the 2014 X-Champs in Sydney as 11 new records were set across eight classes.

Reigning 6 times back-to-back ANDRA Top Doorslammer Champion John Zappia this weekend stamped his authority on his bid to win another straight championship, when he won the X Champs in Sydney Australia and leapt to the top of the points table.

Just one month to the largest championship drag racing event held outside of the USA: FUCHS Winternationals at Willowbank Raceway (5-8 June, 2014)