Anthony Marsh has lowered New Zealand's Top Fuel performance mark, with a 5.089-second/272.89mph blast in his Mount Shop dragster at the United Oils Shootout at Fram Autolite Dragway, Meremere, on the weekend, while Wayne Yearbury also set new standards for Kiwi Top Doorslammers.

IMAGES and VIDEO from Meremere including Reece Fish's spectular testing explosion and Marsh's record-setting run.

Despite searing temperatures in the second round of the Aeroflow Sportsman Drag Racing Championship at the Perth Motorplex, six new national records have been ratified by ANDRA.

Three competitors set both ends of their respective quarter-mile national records: Rob Pilkington, Jake and Jamie Chaisty, and Brenton Baxter.

Sydney Dragway and its popular Wednesday night street legal races have featured in today's Sunday Telegraph newspaper, the biggest selling paper in Australia.

The positive story by Andrew Carswell, albeit stating off-street drag racing is a "new craze", focuses on the people who attend the street meets and their personal and professional backgrounds, defying the drag racing stereotype.

INCLUDES EVENT GALLERY - Phil Lamattina has had the perfect start to the 2014 ANDRA Drag Racing Series by clean sweeping the Nitro Max event at the Perth Motorplex.

Lamattina backed up Friday's night's victory with a 4.747-second win over local hero Martin Stamatis in tonight's final round, the Mildura driver heading home with maximum points and two of ANDRA's new silver Christmas tree trophies.

INCLUDES EXCLUSIVE FIREBALL SEQUENCE - Phil Lamattina and Mark Drew have scored the first of the new silver Christmas trees when they took out Round 1 of the ANDRA Drag Racing Series at the Perth Motorplex's Nitro Max event tonight.

Lamattina drove his Fuchs dragster to a 4.651-second/324.90mph win in Top Fuel over Mark Sheehan's 4.753/261.62 – the stout final ending one of the best nitro shows seen in this country.