VIDEO – Check out the video highlights of last weekend's ANDRA Pro Showdown featuring the first rounds of the Top Doorslammer and Top Alcohol championships at the Perth Motorplex.

RACE NEWS - Teenager Shane Weston and veteran Murray O'Connor were the surprise Top Alcohol and Top Doorslammer top qualifiers for the ANDRA Pro Showdown at the Perth Motorplex last night.

We're wishing a very Happy 70th Birthday to Australia's greatest drag racer, Jim Read, whose on-track success with 17 Nationals wins and 16 Australian Top Fuel titles is second to none.

Victorian drag racing teams will have the opportunity to fine-tune their cars ahead of upcoming ANDRA events at this Saturday's Test and Tune day at Calder Park.

The session is open to all ANDRA licence holders and will be held in the afternoon and evening to avoid the hottest part of the day.

Surprises kept coming Saturday night at the Perth Motorplex's ANDRA Pro Showdown with John Zappia out first round, Stuart Bishop and John Cannuli earning the wins in Top Doorslammer and Top Alcohol.

Melbourne Pro Stock racer, Nino Cavallo is targeting Calder Park's national open on Saturday, March 1 for his return to racing after an 18-month hiatus, testing for Pro Stock's opening round four weeks later.

Queenslander Steven Reed is just one of the headliners of a stellar field in the ANDRA Drag Racing Series Top Alcohol season opener at Perth Motorplex, 31 January-1 February.

The Top Alcohol cornucopia of supercharged dragsters, funny cars and altereds reaching over 400 kph during fierce elimination racing is set to light up the West next Friday in Perth fans' first look at Reed in five years.

Just Drag Racing.com took a ride at Portland recently with three-time Australian Super Sedan Champion, Graeme Cooper in his popular "Bricklayer" Holden EH Premier Station Wagon.