Team Bray Racing's Ben Bray is faced with a race against time as he works to be ready for this Friday and Saturday's Santo's Cranes Super 3 Extreme Drag Race event (29/30 March) at home-track Willowbank Raceway.

The 29 year old is in the middle of what was to be a three-event program aboard his Nissan Altima; as part of an overall goal of achieving a 'six second' pass by or at April's Sydney Jamboree.

However, Ben has been forced to work against the clock after breaking an engine wrist pin during testing ahead of last weekend's APSA Pro Street shootout – the first of what was to be three events contested over three consecutive weekends.

I went to Bakersfield on my annual pilgrimage with Peter and Greg Leahy and whole heap of Aussies. I would have to say our Aussie party on the Saturday night would have to be one of the highlights but that's another story. I ended up going home having purchased Doug Rose's 'Time Traveler' which has now been reborn.

It is based in Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia and will run in the fast growing Nitro Nostalgia Funny Car section in Australia along with Graeme Cowin's half a dozen and Paul Shackletons's 'Shak Attack' from Mackay. We had our first three shake down passes last Saturday night 16/03/2013 at Benaraby Raceway, our home track.

Top Fuel and Top Alcohol both add two more championship rounds to their tally when the Santo's Cranes Super 3 Extreme Drag Race hits Willowbank Raceway in March 29 and 30.

For Top Fuel it marks rounds six and seven of the championship and is the second time they have run the 'double header' championship format, following its successful debut at Perth Motorplex in February.

Given the event is a new one, it does not have a previous winner, however last time the Top Fuel dragsters were out at Willowbank Raceway Allan Dobson took the win, driving for the Rapisarda Autosport International team, over Andrew Cowin.

Dobson ran the fourth quickest time of the season, a 4.649 en route to the Winternationals win.

The quick pass showed the Rapisarda team knew Willowbank Raceway well. With three times world champion Larry Dixon coming into the driver's seat for this event and highly decorated crew chief Lee Beard to provide the tune up, they will be tough to beat.

Before covering the event with the race report, Just Drag Racing would like to say a get well soon to Christine May, who is recovering as we speak from a sizable spill in her Super Sedan Torana. Although it was pretty darn scary to see, she walked away from it quite quickly and was whisked away to the medical facilities in good time. We wish you well. Also some well wishes to Morry Cantarella who had a slip whilst finishing off a qualifying burnout and had a tumble to the ground.

Numbers were down as far as Nitro Funny Cars went, but Mark Sheehan and Anthony Begley made up for that with some numbers of their own. Elapsed time numbers, that is. Sheehan had the first round of bragging rights with a 4.910 at 306mph keeping Begley in check, his own 5.225 almost there.

The Australian Pro Street Association (APSA) and South Coast Raceway PRESENT the APSA PRO STREET SHOOTOUT... Round 2.

Pro Street Racing is a format of drag racing that has never visited Portland before and boy do we have a treat for car lovers on the this side of Australia. What we have is the toughest Pro Street and pure Street Cars in Australia battling it out for a Points Series and to test each other and see who is the best of the best...

That's Right guys "Street Cars"... Almost all the cars you will see at our events were at one stage of their life off a Car Production line, and have become the monsters you will see on Saturday 13th April.

Queensland Top Alcohol driver Steven Reed says he may sacrifice the single compulsory qualifying sessions of the Santo's Cranes Super 3 Extreme Drag Race at Willowbank Raceway in order to find a path to quicker times.

Reed believes the Allstar Batteries/Royal Wolf team has the parts and equipment needed to run into the elusive 5.4 second zone, but needs to find the knowledge to get there and the only way to do that is to test out some theories.

"I'd normally be saying that we will be trying to "5.60" the field to death, but we need to figure out how to go fast," he said. "To do that we have to try some things but we don't know whether that will mean we lose our consistency.