Steve Schruers - Super Sedan (Photo courtesy www.highrpm.com.au)This will be the month to get your drag racing fix at Hidden Valley with the penultimate round of the Hidden Valley Track Championship Series kicking off a month long dragfest with four events in only four weeks starting this Saturday.

With the majority of brackets coming down to the wire the racing is going to be hotly contested. Teams are sure to be pushing their vehicles to their limits to get a finals berth and for some this will be the last chance to bridge that divide between first and second place.

A sizeable but not unsurmountable lead exists in Super Sedan with Grant Rowe 40 points clear of Steve Schruers. With a combined 60 points available over the final two rounds of the year, Rowe is not safe yet. Rowe defeated Schruers at the last event and is yet to be defeated in any of his three finals match ups this year.

Shane Olive and the Fast Company Nostalgia Nitro Funny Car I’ve got some good news and I’ve got some bad news for you.

Let’s start with the bad news. Top Fuel and Top bike won’t be running at Calder Park Raceway on November the 10^th. With only 3 Top Fuel teams committed, the decision was made amongst all the parties, including ANDRA, Calder Park Raceway and the racers not to proceed with the scheduled round.

With the ANDRA Nationals at Sydney Dragway a week before the event, many teams couldn’t make the financial commitment to turn the cars and bikes around in 5 days and head down to Calder Park Raceway. And as most crew are volunteers, few could afford the time off work or time spent away from their families.

Matt Forbes - living the dream Drag racing isn’t a hobby and it certainly isn’t a past time. For many hard core fans and racers it’s not even a sport. It’s so much more than that.

For many it’s a way of life. From the minute you’re exposed to the sights, smells and sounds of drag racing you’re hooked. It’s gets in your bones and has an influence over many aspects of your life.

Ballarat born and bred, local sportsman racer Matt Forbes was bitten by the drag racing bug 30 years ago and it still plays a big part in both his personal and business life today.

Matt explains. “I don’t think I ever stood a chance of not being passionate about cars in some form. I was born into a family that had heavy involvement in hot rodding and muscle cars. However, strangely enough participating in drag racing was never on the agenda.”

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I highly recommend you read through this brief guide to get a feel for what you can do. However, for those of you who like to jump straight in you can go to the For Sale Section and wing it.

Fowler Family Racing GXP (Photo courtesy www.cacklingpipes.com)Super Sedan racer Paul Partridge has a lot to answer for. Not because he drives a lime green Ford Mustang, but because Pardo is responsible for re-introducing Greg Fowler to drag racing.

Since getting back into the sport in 2001, Greg Fowler and the team at Fowler Family Racing have gone on to dominate the Super Sedan bracket in Australia, taking home more Gold Christmas Trees and trophies than can comfortably fit in the cabinet.

The team's success comes down to a number of factors, but most importantly it's commitment to the sport and taking every opportunity to go racing.

The October 20 season opener for the 2012/13 ANDRA Drag Racing Series will see the return of the Pro Stock championship to Adelaide for the first time in over a decade, with a group of local racers keen to show off their skills in front of the South Australian audience.

For Virginia resident Arthur Kolaroff, it will mean a tow of just minutes, compared to the days it normally takes him to reach Sydney or Brisbane to compete with his Carisma Potato-supported Pontiac.

"It will be great to have an official round here, most of my sponsors are from South Australia so we can show what we do in front of them," he said. "We did an exhibition in 2011 here but we are looking forward to racing for championship points now."

Aeroflow Performance Products and the Australian National Drag Racing Association (ANDRA) are proud to announce that Aeroflow will be the new naming rights sponsor for the ANDRA Sportsman Drag Racing Series.

Formerly known as the Rocket Allstars Racing Series, the series will now be known as the Aeroflow Sportsman Drag Racing Championship.

The partnership with Rocket paid out some $300,000 to racers over six seasons and Aeroflow Performance Products managing director Graeme Cowin said he was thrilled about the announcement for the new branding of the series.

Gary Phillips Slamfest (Photo courtesy www.highrpm.com.au)The inaugural Hidden Valley round of the national Slamfest Drag Racing Series was run on the weekend with support from the Territory Government and 7mate and event organisers had their hands full with a myriad of crashes and near misses.

Friday night's qualifying session saw the SS/A class 1971 Ford ute of Des Groves burst a line, causing the car to spear into the right hand wall, narrowly missing rival Dean Radcliffe. Groves walked away unscathed but the pristine vehicle is unlikely to be seen at Hidden Valley again.

After the final round of qualifying on Saturday afternoon the event was officially opened by the Chief Minister, Paul Henderson in front of a 5000 strong crowd.