Team Bray Racing's Ben Bray re-wrote the record books on Saturday 20 April 2013 when at Willowbank Raceway's Super Sportsman event he blazed down the Queensland quarter-mile in 6.807 seconds at 202.39 miles per hour in his four cylinder Nissan Altima.

The results sees Bray and his TBR Nissan Altima claim the title of the quickest four cylinder 'doored' car in the world running an SR20 motor, and the quickest four cylinder car outright in Australia.

The record-breaking pass came at the hottest part of the afternoon, and following a 6.86 second pass at 202 miles per hour earlier in the day.

Sydney Dragway will be seeing more nitro than ever before at the Nitro Champs on May 3-5 with Top Fuel dragsters, Nitro Funny Cars and Top Bikes all on track and all burning motorsport's most famous fuel.

Among the three drivers performing in Nitro Funny Cars will be Australia's quickest active female drag racer, Queensland's Christine Steffens.

Driving her distinctive "croc car", Steffens is one of the few female nitro drivers in the world and currently the only one in Australia. She forms an even fewer group of nitro-licensed couples in the world as well, with husband Ricky previously driving a Nitro Funny Car.

The deafening sounds of high horsepower drag racing returns to Hidden Valley Drag Strip for the 2013 Season Opener on Saturday 27 April and teams are sure to be using every round this year to find the perfect setup before the ultimate showdowns at the 2013 NT Titles and the ANDRA Drag Racing Series in July and August.

Headlining the night is a revitalised list of categories with the introduction of Top Sportsman racing for the first time at Hidden Valley.

The new Top Sportsman category is open to any car capable of running 8.99 seconds or faster over the standing quarter mile.

"With the increasing number of Super Sedan and Modified vehicles competing at Hidden Valley we were seeing wildly different speeds within the combined category" explained HVDRA President Jay Jukes.

Supercharge Batteries is pleased to announce our involvement with the CADRA ASID Desert Nationals as the Main Sponsor.

Russell Marquez, National Sales Manager of Supercharge Batteries said "We are pleased to announce Supercharge Batteries involvement with the Desert Nationals, and we are eagerly looking forward to the competition and supporting the activities to promote the sport."

As the Main Sponsor, Supercharge Batteries hopes to lift the profile of the event to the status of a World Class Drag Racing Competition that we know it is. The Desert Nationals will be held at the Alice Springs Inland Dragway on the 28th – 29th June 2013.

Roma's Laurie Fitzgerald is one racer who can't wait to see the 2013 JP Racing Eighth Mile Drag Racing Series return to the new-look Ironbark Raceway come Saturday 27 April 2013.

Fitzgerald was the Series champion for the 2012 FG Loy and Sons Earthmoving Old School Bracket and the 2010 Series champion in the Modified bracket and in 2013 will be debuting in a new bracket – Ice Slushee Super Sedan.

"This will be my third year competing in the JP Racing Eighth Mile Drag Racing Series and my third different race bracket for the Series," said Fitzgerald.

Ironbark Raceway President David Somerfield is predicting big things for this April's JP Racing Eighth Mile Drag Racing Series round at the Roma drag racing facility following its re-opening last month.

In fact, Somerfield is so confident of a big showing, he has thrown down a challenge to other hosts of the 2013 eighth mile series to beat them when it comes to competitor and crowd numbers.

"The excitement around this place at the moment is just palpable," said Somerfield.