For Darwin drag racer Scott White, contesting the ANDRA Pro Stock Motorcycle Championship has been no easy street.

White is located in the Top End of the Northern Territory and as such has to travel long distances to contest the championship. A trip to Sydney with the 300kmh motorcycle can take up to four days.

Then there is the frustration of dealing with one of drag racing's most finicky vehicles. White opened his season in difficult fashion, with parts failures holding back the AMPAC Advanced Warning Systems team from showing its true potential.

Recent testing at Portland's South Coast Raceway in Victoria produced a better result, with White setting a new track record for bikes at 4.729 seconds on the eighth mile venue.

Bruno Romeo wins in Portland (Photo courtesy Tom Dowden)Once again the Fuch's South Coast Raceway crew put on a great event with the Slammers headlining the event and Super Gas running the round robin format for Round 3 of the Southern Super Gas Series.

Adelaide's Bruno Romeo had a stellar event as he top qualified and then won the event. Matty Forbes qualified second and once again was the bridesmaid with another runner-up finish but this was enough to give him the series lead.

Newcomer to the series Danny Buccella had the best average qualifying ET with an average of seven thousandths under the 6.30 index followed by Matt with a fifteen hundredths over average.

The MSCN awards where raffled with the South Australians cleaning up as Lance Larcombe went home with the tyre gauge and Danny Bucella with the Brad Penn oil.

Ballistic Drag Racing travelled to Portland for the Aeroflow Sportsman Championship round on January 5th and 6th 2013 at South Coast Raceway. Just 400km from where we live, we drove on a 40 deg day which was not pleasant. We arrived at the track around 8pm, unloaded and got set for racing the next day.

Reed Racing has the pleasure of announcing a new sponsorship deal with Royal Wolf Trading.

The team had a very successful end to last season and already kicked off the 2013 season with a win at Sydney Dragway in November. Royal Wolf join the Reed Racing team with a sponsorship deal for the current season kicking it all off in Adelaide February 23rd & 24th.

The Clipsal 500 won't be the only major motorsports event in the City of Churches this month with the running of the Aeroflow Summer Speedfest at Adelaide International Raceway this weekend, February 23-24.

The Aeroflow Summer Speedfest features national ANDRA championship rounds for Top Alcohol, Top Bike, and Pro Stock Motorcycle plus the first running of the Aeroflow Sportsman Drag Racing Championship in Adelaide since 1999.

Over 170 team will be attending the event from all over the country, bringing an influx of racers and their pit crews into the region.

The resurgence of Adelaide International Raceway has brought many South Australian drag racers back into the sport, the latest being Top Alcohol dragster driver Frank Intini.

Intini will be campaigning his dragster at the Aeroflow Summer Speedfest this weekend, February 23 and 24, bringing along a special cause for the ride.

The Duchenne Foundation (www.duchennefoundation.org.au) will take pride of place on the side of Intini's 350kmh race car, spreading the message about Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, which affects many young people Australia wide.

Melbourne baker Wayne Price will be making his first appearance at Adelaide International Raceway for next weekend's Aeroflow Summer Speedfest, which features the third round of the ANDRA Top Alcohol Championship.

Price's 400kmh Funny Car has been on the improve in recent events, reaching the semi finals at the Australian Nationals at Sydney Dragway and setting a new personal best time of 5.68 seconds for the quarter mile (402m).

With the unique Adelaide event being run over 1000 feet, Price said after getting a feel for the track he would like to begin to see what it can hold.

"I'd like to think we can run into the fours over 1000 feet but not having been on the track before I am not 100% on how the car will react to the Adelaide surface," he said.

Top Alcohol returns to Adelaide International Raceway for the Aeroflow Summer Speedfest in just under two weeks and carrying the Aeroflow flag in a big way will be Sydney driver Rick Gauci.

Since the last time Gauci raced at Adelaide in April 2012, he has upgraded the his Ford Mustang Funny Car with better ignition control as he seeks to tame the 1000 feet distance - unique to the Adelaide strip.

"We had traction issues last time as we didn't have an ignition system that allowed us to take timing out and that saw us getting massively sideways," he said. "Now we can apply the power gradually and take advantage of the track where it is good but be prepared for parts where it is tricky."