ANDRA has released its historic 2014 calendar for both the ANDRA Drag Racing Series and the Aeroflow Sportsman Drag Racing Championship.
In response to racers, the season has transitioned into a calendar year for the first time since the nineties, running from January through to December.
There will be 14 events in the ANDRA Drag Racing Series which is comprised of the six professional Australian drag racing categories Top Fuel, Top Doorslammer, Top Alcohol, Pro Stock, Top Bike and Pro Stock Motorcycle.
The season will kick off with a nitro flavour at Perth Motorplex with rounds of Top Fuel and Top Bike. Australian’s own version of the ‘Western Swing’ will make up the first part of the season, ensuring racers are not taxed with too many journeys across the Nullarbor plain.
In total eight tracks will be running rounds of the ANDRA Drag Racing Series including Sydney Dragway, Willowbank Raceway, Perth Motorplex, Calder Park, Adelaide International Raceway, Hidden Valley Drag Strip in Darwin and new venues Alice Springs Inland Dragway and Queensland’s Benaraby Raceway.
ANDRA CEO Malcolm Bulley said the growth in championship venues from just three in 2011 to eight in 2014 showed the strengthening that has occurred with the sport nationally.
“Expanding the ANDRA Drag Racing Series to as many venues as we can gives our competitors more exposure and showcases the sport of drag racing to a much larger proportion of the Australian population,” he said.
“This is a truly national series again and that’s going to result in
Scott White heads into the Lady Daley Hotel Spring Nationals this weekend in Adelaide sitting in fourth place in the 2012-13 ANDRA Pro Stock Motorcycle championship.
After four rounds in the championship, White’s best finish this season so far was at the Nitro Champs where he qualified second, held Top Speed in qualifying and went out in the semi finals.
His nearest rival is Victorian Glenn Wooster. The pair has been battling it out all year with White currently holding a narrow three-point lead over Wooster, who sits in fifth.
It all began at the Nationals last November when Wooster finished on a three-point lead over White. Round two of the championship moved to Adelaide in February and saw the pair move up the ladder two spots into 5th and 6th with White closing the gap to just one point. Round 3 was the Nitro Champs in May and this saw White move ahead of Wooster into fourth, up two places. Round 4 was the Winternationals and White was confident to extend his gap even further. However rained stopped eliminations, and with qualifying points earned, the pair remained locked.
“That was how we also qualified (4th and 5th) at Willowbank,” said White. Both riders ran side-by-side identical ETs of 7.449 with White recording the higher speed.
“Glenn is running a Trevor Birrell engine so that’s tough and I believe he has a new combo for Adelaide. I have rebuilt the spare engine and feel like we are in a very
