ANDRA has released its historic 2014 calendar for both the ANDRA Drag Racing Series and the Aeroflow Sportsman Drag Racing Championship.

In response to racers, the season has transitioned into a calendar year for the first time since the nineties, running from January through to December.

There will be 14 events in the ANDRA Drag Racing Series which is comprised of the six professional Australian drag racing categories Top Fuel, Top Doorslammer, Top Alcohol, Pro Stock, Top Bike and Pro Stock Motorcycle.

Rising star Jess Turner could be on her way to a top ten finish in the Aeroflow Sportsman Drag Racing Championship in her first full season of Modified – and all before she has even finished high school.

The 18 year old Victorian driver currently sits eighth in the standings and with this weekend's Lady Daly Hotel Springnationals at Adelaide International Raceway is poised to make a move even further up the ranks.

Racing comes naturally for Turner, who earned her licence for the 250kmh dragster before her one for the street and is currently completing Year 12.

Murray O'Connor has enjoyed one of his best seasons yet in the ANDRA Top Doorslammer series and he hopes his privateer outfit can continue to be a rival to bigger, more well-funded teams.

This weekend O'Connor will be transporting his 3500 horsepower Ford Falcon to Adelaide International Raceway where he will take part in the penultimate round of the championship – the Lady Daly Hotel Springnationals.

Currently sitting fifth in the points, O'Connor is hopeful he can move into fourth if results go his way and earn his best ever result in the Top Doorslammer category.

Team Bray Racing's Victor and Ben Bray will be on track at Adelaide International Raceway later this month for the Spring Nationals - the first ANDRA Top Doorslammer National Championship Round ever held at the venue since 2000.

The Spring Nationals comes after two exhibition events for the category at the South Australia venue, held in November of 2011 and November of 2012. Both occasions resulted in a Bray versus Bray finale, with the father and son team now holding a win apiece.

"The first time we visited AIR for the Top Doorslammer category was in November of 2011, with Ben taking the win from an all-Bray finale in front of thousands of delighted fans," said six-time back-to-back Top Doorslammer champion Victor Bray.

The nation's premier import and lifestyle event will burst into life this weekend at Willowbank Raceway with more than 280 entrants already signed up to take part.

The Brisbane Jamboree, to be held across Saturday 21 and Sunday 22 September 2013 at Queensland's premier drag racing facility, will host a wide range of activities including on-track drag racing, two show and shines, dyno and sound-off competitions and more.

More than 280 entrants have already taken advantage of the pre-event online entry option for this massive weekend, signing up to take part in a range of activities from on-track drag racing to off-track competitions.

Jamboree organiser Ray Box said the 23rd running of the popular automotive event is expected to host around 10,000 spectators over its two days.

Scott White makes his way to Adelaide this weekend for the Lady Daly Hotel Spring Nationals sitting in fourth place in the 2012-13 ANDRA Pro Stock Motorcycle championship.

After four rounds in the championship, White's best finish this season so far was at the Nitro Champs where he qualified second, held Top Speed in qualifying and went out in the semi finals.

His nearest rival is Victorian Glenn Wooster. The pair has been battling it out all year with White currently holding a narrow three-point lead over Wooster, who sits in fifth.

Gladstone will play host to the final round of the 2013 JP Racing Eighth Mile Drag Racing Series later this month when an estimated 100 plus racers head to Benaraby Raceway for the fourth and final round of the Series on Saturday 28 September.

Racers from across South East Queensland will head to Benaraby to fight for titles in six different race brackets, with the points chase the closest ever seen in the Series' four year history.

Series organiser John Winterburn said that local Gladstone racers will face off against competitors who call the racing facilities of Warwick, Roma and Willowbank home, in the final hurrah for the 2013 Series which brings prestige racing to the regional facilities of South East Queensland.

ANDRA Top Fuel racer, Phil Lamattina, will turn his attention to the new Outlaw Nitro Funny Car class as he gets behind the wheel of a former NHRA Championship winning nitro funny car.

"The car looks like it's brand new, I have to thank Graeme Cowin for sourcing the car for our team, it's a nice bit of gear," exclaimed Lamattina.

"This car has got an amazing history and I'm looking forward to getting behind the wheel of this thing, it's going to be an animal," smiled the carrot king.

"Aaron (Hambridge) is going through the car along with the Graeme (Cowin) and we are all just really excited about the event. It's not every day you drive a nitro funny car, it's not every day you get a chance to write history and it's certainly not every day you get to race a guy like Ron Capps."