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.

6 September 2011

Launceston's Shane Walker will this weekend commence the first leg of his quest for a National Drag Racing Championship. Over the next ten months Walker will compete at five of the six rounds of the Rocket Allstars Racing Series on his Harley Davidson Screaming Eagle Destroyer.

29 July 2011

Aeroflow Performance Products is pleased to welcome the Fowler Family Racing to the Aeroflow Drag Racing team.

29 July 2011

Racing, Rain, Babies and more Rain. That in a nutshell is the 2010/2011 racing season, well here is a little more detail and a recap of our year and our future.

3 June 2011

At the end of April, defending Modified national Champion Kelly Corbett suffered a heartbreaking blow – crashing her NSANE.net.au Modified dragster during qualifying for the penultimate round of the Rocket All Stars Racing Series chase.

A/Modified Bike quarter-mile record toppled after standing for almost a decade on the weekend. Mark Hancock's GSXR 1100 clocked the fastest speed recorded in the national A/MB category as it rocketed down the strip in just 7.79 seconds, at Willowbank Raceway on March 26, 2011. The previous best time was 7.92 seconds, a time which had stood since 2002.

31 March 2011 (Updated 4/4/11)

Seven new ANDRA National Records were set a last weekend’s Rocket Allstars Racing Series round at Willowbank Raceway.

11 March 2011

Drivers from three Divisions reset thirteen ANDRA National Records at last weekend's Westernationals event at Perth Motorplex.

As a result, seven ANDRA Class Indexes have been reset, and one class has been refactored, as shown below and the complete Records/Index list is available on the ANDRA website under Competitors - Records / Indexes.

11 March 2011

Points standings from Westernats ANDRA Rocket Allstars Racing Series (RARS) round held at Perth Motorplex are now available on the ANDRA website under Competitors/Series Points/Rocket Allstars.

9 March 2011

The ACDelco Nissan 300 ZX of Michael “PATCH” Frossos was out at the Perth Motorplex in fairley good conditionds to contest at the 40^th annual Westernationals.

4 March 2011

After 18 months on the sidelines, Victorian Darren Parker is making a return to the strip at the upcoming Sydney Dragway Top Doorslammer / Pro Stock meeting on March 18~19^th in a new car and in a new class.

9 December 2010

Saturday 4th of December 2010 saw the Pro Auto 2010 Chev Cobalt SS, powered by a 667ci Steve Schmidt Competition Engine, break the track record once again by running .373 seconds under the National Record (SS/A) with a 6.986 second pass @ 198.67 mph or 319.72 kph.

27 September 2010

The first round of ANDRA's Rocket All Star Series, the Fuchs Nationals, has been run and won with many an upset occurring. One such upset was that of Shayne Homes, the current Competition Bike Champion who after Top Qualifying exited early in the Quarter Finals after making a strategic error.

20 September 2010

Nearly half the entries at the 2010 FUCHS Australian Nationals held over the weekend of September 11th and 12th at Sydney Dragway came from outside New South Wales.