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.
Rockhampton's Michael Cameron will lead the RD Williams Excavator Parts Modified bracket racers to Benaraby Raceway this weekend for the grand finale of the 2013 JP Racing Eighth Mile Drag Racing Series.
Gladstone's Benaraby Raceway is expected to play host to an estimated 100 plus racers this weekend (Saturday 28 September) with entrants coming from all across South East Queensland to fight for titles in six different race brackets, with the points chase the closest ever seen in the Series' four year history.
Cameron heads to his home track with a seven point advantage over Warwick racer Ian Ham after being introduced to the Series at its Benaraby round last year, where Cameron took part after completing his licensing that day, finishing runner-up to eventual 2012 bracket winner Bob Frawley.
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.
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.
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.