UPDATED WITH EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH MICK MAHONEY - Supercharged Outlaws competitor Mick Mahoney was released from Portland Hospital late last night with only "bumps and bruises" following his huge accident at Fuchs South Coast Raceway.
Mahoney's racing and business partner, Phil Read praised the safety of their blown Ford Capri, giving the "thumbs up" to chassis builder Lance Walker and the work of track and safety officials.
Recently-crowned ANDRA Modified Champion, Craig Baker says he feels like he has a target on his back as he gets ready to defend his title.
Baker heads to Portland's impressive 1/8th mile Fuchs South Coast Raceway for the opening round of the 13-event, 2014 Aeroflow Sportsman Drag Racing Championship this weekend.
The opening round of the 2014 Aeroflow Sportsman Drag Racing Championship will be held at Portland's Fuchs South Coast Raceway on 4-5 January, with some exciting classic machines taking part.
Queensland brother and sister Scott Bettes and Kelly Corbett were part of an Australian first at Sydney Dragway's Australian Nationals, 1-3 November 2013, when they lined up against each other in the final for the Modified class.
It is believed that it is the first time a brother and sister have competed against each other in a final round at a national event in the senior ranks.
UPDATED - Qualifying for the first round of ANDRA's Aeroflow Sportsman Drag Racing Championships, being held at Fuchs South Coast Raceway this weekend, is now underway after having earlier been delayed due to rain.
Intermittent rains peppered the Portland area but the Bureau of Meteorology radar showed little further rain approaching and conditions improved.
Jenny Petrie and her spectacular 250kmh Wildfire Fiat Topolino will compete in the opening round of the Aeroflow Sportsman Drag Racing Championship at Fuchs South Coast Raceway on 4-5 January, 2014.
Ballarat drag racer Matt Forbes struck gold in Sydney twice on the weekend, claiming two major trophies on the same day.
The 39-year-old from Canadian Lakes won the Super Gas class at the country's oldest and most prestigious drag racing event, the Australian Nationals, his win also securing the Aeroflow Sportsman Drag Racing Championship.
The JP Racing Eighth Mile Drag Racing Series Grand Final at Benaraby Raceway was shaping up to be a very good event with 100 racers but the sport's nemisis - rain - began falling after qualifying and the event was cancelled.
Series Winners were determined as per the Eighth Mile Rain Out Policy and all brackets with the exception of FG Loy & Sons Earthmoving Old School which Lyn Stewart won by a modest margin were very tight.