Former Pro Stock champion Aaron Tremayne says the team has spent the off season developing the horsepower needed to fire back into form for the start of the ANDRA championship season at Adelaide International Raceway on October 20.

Tremayne finished an uncharacteristic eighth in last season’s championship chase, having won the previous four championships in a row. He was blunt in his assessment of the poor finish.

Queensland’s Steve Read will return to where his nitro career began when the ANDRA Top Fuel season launches at Adelaide International Raceway on October 20.

Read’s first event in a Top Fuel dragster was driving for team owner Santo Rapisarda at the South Australian venue back in the nineties and he said he has positive memories of the experience.

The October 20 season opener for the 2012/13 ANDRA Drag Racing Series will see the return of the Pro Stock championship to Adelaide for the first time in over a decade, with a group of local racers keen to show off their skills in front of the South Australian audience.

For Virginia resident Arthur Kolaroff, it will mean a tow of just minutes, compared to the days it normally takes him to reach Sydney or Brisbane to compete with his Carisma Potato-supported Pontiac.

The ANDRA Drag Racing Series will see a new team entering the fray in Top Fuel this season with Peter Xiberras’s Sydney-based PremiAir outfit to make its debut with Luke Shepherd doing the driving duties.

Shepherd said that the team wants to contest all the rounds if possible, with only the opening round in Adelaide currently in doubt as the team waits for some final parts for their arsenal to arrive.

Team Bray will be putting drag racing front and centre at this weekend’s V8 Supercar event in the north Queensland city with burnout displays and their Top Doorslammers on display.

The Sidchrome Burnout cars including Victor Bray’s 1957 Chev and Ben Bray’s new look Holden SS ute will both be doing doughnuts around the tight street circuit.

Jason Hedges has surprised ANDRA Pro Stock fans with the announcement that he will be taking a break from racing next season in his Decoglaze Pontiac.

Hedges has been one of the form runners in Pro Stock this season, finishing third in the 2010/11 series and sixth in this season, which has reached new levels of competitiveness.

The 2012/2013 season will go down as a landmark season both on and off the dragstrip for Brisbane based racer Steve Ham.

In only his third championship campaign with the Mobil 1 Funny Car in the fiercely contested ANDRA Top Alcohol category, Ham’s season was punctuated by his first event win at the Nitro Champs in Sydney and gladly interrupted by the safe arrival of his first daughter.

The quickest run in Top Doorslammer history and a fifth straight title was John Zappia’s reward at the conclusion of the Fuchs Winternationals at Willowbank Raceway as the rest of the field wonders what they need to do to keep up with the iconic HQ Monaro.

Australian drag racing legend Gary Phillips has claimed yet another ANDRA Top Alcohol crown, taking his championship tally to sixteen - 15 in Top Alcohol and one in Top Doorslammer.

Consistency was the key for Phillips again this season as the Lucas Oils team claimed two top qualifiers, three top speeds, two low ETs and new national speed records bringing the bonus points that made the difference in the end.

Darren Morgan is enjoying basking in the glory of his third ANDRA Top Fuel championship following his nail biting series win over challengers Damien Harris and Andrew Cowin.

It was the second straight championship win for Morgan’s AEG Powertools team.

The never give up attitude was on full display at Willowbank Raceway today as final eliminations were completed for the rain-delayed Fuchs Winternationals.

Both race teams and event staff gave their all to bring the event to completion and allow every category to reach its conclusion.

The ANDRA Top Fuel national championship will all be decided in round one of racing on June 11 at Willowbank Raceway in Queensland when Western Australian Damien Harris takes on Victoria’s Darren Morgan.

Qualifying delivered an action packed show as rain delays pushed racing into the night. With Harris and Morgan claiming fourth and fifth positions respectively, the scene has been set for the title race.

ANDRA Top Doorslammer championship leader John Zappia made the case for a fifth straight national title on day two of the Fuchs Winternationals at Willowbank Raceway in Queensland, Australia’s biggest drag racing event.

John Barbagallo made his first pass of the ANDRA season a strong one with his 7.01sec time heading the Pro Stock field on day one of the Fuchs Winternationals.

Pro Stock was the only professional category to run on a day that saw the Rocket Allstars Racing Series competitors getting their early qualifying sessions in.

Multiple Australian Top Fuel champion Steve Read will make a return to racing at this weekend’s 45th annual Fuchs Winternationals at Willowbank Raceway, Ipswich, after a 12 month absence.