Shane Olive and the Fast Company Nostalgia Nitro Funny Car I’ve got some good news and I’ve got some bad news for you.

Let’s start with the bad news. Top Fuel and Top bike won’t be running at Calder Park Raceway on November the 10^th. With only 3 Top Fuel teams committed, the decision was made amongst all the parties, including ANDRA, Calder Park Raceway and the racers not to proceed with the scheduled round.

With the ANDRA Nationals at Sydney Dragway a week before the event, many teams couldn’t make the financial commitment to turn the cars and bikes around in 5 days and head down to Calder Park Raceway. And as most crew are volunteers, few could afford the time off work or time spent away from their families.

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.

"It will be great to have an official round here, most of my sponsors are from South Australia so we can show what we do in front of them," he said. "We did an exhibition in 2011 here but we are looking forward to racing for championship points now."

Matt Forbes - living the dream Drag racing isn’t a hobby and it certainly isn’t a past time. For many hard core fans and racers it’s not even a sport. It’s so much more than that.

For many it’s a way of life. From the minute you’re exposed to the sights, smells and sounds of drag racing you’re hooked. It’s gets in your bones and has an influence over many aspects of your life.

Ballarat born and bred, local sportsman racer Matt Forbes was bitten by the drag racing bug 30 years ago and it still plays a big part in both his personal and business life today.

Matt explains. “I don’t think I ever stood a chance of not being passionate about cars in some form. I was born into a family that had heavy involvement in hot rodding and muscle cars. However, strangely enough participating in drag racing was never on the agenda.”

Aeroflow Performance Products and the Australian National Drag Racing Association (ANDRA) are proud to announce that Aeroflow will be the new naming rights sponsor for the ANDRA Sportsman Drag Racing Series.

Formerly known as the Rocket Allstars Racing Series, the series will now be known as the Aeroflow Sportsman Drag Racing Championship.

The partnership with Rocket paid out some $300,000 to racers over six seasons and Aeroflow Performance Products managing director Graeme Cowin said he was thrilled about the announcement for the new branding of the series.

Welcome to the Just Drag Racing "For Sale Section". These guidelines will help you create a new account and add your first item for sale.

I highly recommend you read through this brief guide to get a feel for what you can do. However, for those of you who like to jump straight in you can go to the For Sale Section and wing it.

For this article in Just Drag Racing, I thought I would go through some of the differences between racing my high 9 second Super Sedan and my mid 7 second Pontiac GXP in Super Stock.

There are some basic similarities between to the two cars, four wheels, 9" diff and 4 link suspension, and in all honesty that is where it ends. Everything else on the two cars is different. The Commodore was a right hand drive factory steel sedan that had a ½ chassis and roll cage fitted, the GXP is a left hand drive full chrome moly chassis that weighs approximately 100kg bare.

The steel body of the Commodore was standard, however the doors, bonnet and boot were replaced with fibreglass replicas whereas the GXP has a lightweight carbon fibre body with modified aerodynamics (as per NHRA Pro Stock rules) that means it is much slipperier through the air. The ONLY factory original components on the GXP body are the standard Pontiac G6 head and tail lights, again as per the NHRA rules.