




Profile: Janelle Mannix20180709142220
Profile: Janelle Mannix
Your Story MattersJuly 9, 2018
Janelle Mannix is a self-confessed drag racing addict. If you ask her friends they'd say she has an insane level of excitement for the sport, but ask her son or granddaughter and they just reckon she's the coolest....
Racer Profiles: Beat the Heat20171013071400
Racer Profiles: Beat the Heat
Your Story MattersOctober 13, 2017
Lauren SCHILLING is a mum from Warracknabeal. She has just commenced her dream of being a drag racing driver, after purchasing this XR6. Although this car is also Laurens every day drive complete with a baby seat, she will be entering this car in the...
Terri doesn’t let Cancer slow her down20160204020000
Terri doesn’t let Cancer slow her down
Your Story MattersFebruary 4, 2016
My passion is DRAG RACING and I’m a wife, mother and grandmother, and I was first diagnosed with breast cancer in January 2003 aged 47 years. Name: Terri Sander aka mama My current race car is a left-hand drive Rover called “MAMA’S TOY” Its debut wa...
Crew Member Profile: Mick Kahle20150930060600
Crew Member Profile: Mick Kahle
Your Story MattersSeptember 30, 2015
Here I was minding my own business, enjoying watching the drag racing when I had the time. No pressure, no stress, just going at my own pace. Then Andy (my wife) introduces me to the husband of a friend who is drag racing a still street registered Fo...
RACER PROFILE: AndyK & the Poken Mobile20150914060300
RACER PROFILE: AndyK & the Poken Mobile
Your Story MattersSeptember 14, 2015
The PokenOz drag racing team didn’t start with an easy ride, but with determination, support from friends and extreme love for the sport, the team is finally completing its first full season of racing. About 4 years ago, after crewing for a frien...
RACER PROFILE: Drag Racer Lisa Sherry20150909055900
RACER PROFILE: Drag Racer Lisa Sherry
Your Story MattersSeptember 9, 2015
Lisa has crewed for her father, Bob Sherry, since she was 16 but has been at the track watching her dad race since the age of 5. In 1993 she raced her daily drive, a white VN 308 Commodore, and then in 1995 Lisa had a run down the track in a hot 308 ...
RACER PROFILE: Introducing Niki Zakrzewski20150627021200
RACER PROFILE: Introducing Niki Zakrzewski
Your Story MattersJune 27, 2015
The Winternats, Australia’s biggest annual drag racing event, was a great result for myself, my race team & Harley Davidson VRod enthusiasts around the world, running 2 x 8.6 ET’s and getting into the semis & bugger when I cherrie...
Racer Profile: Introducing Kellie Kidd20150519011400
Racer Profile: Introducing Kellie Kidd
Your Story MattersMay 19, 2015
Apart from running around after 2 kids, I’m on Online Personal Shopper @ Woolworths… and I have a 60kg Rottweiler named Thor. On the weekends when I’m not racing, I love watersking with family and friends. We used to do marathon ski...
Meet the Fastest Ladies in Tasmania, Australia20150327142400
Meet the Fastest Ladies in Tasmania, Australia
Your Story MattersMarch 27, 2015
by Ruth Bowler Recently returned from competing overseas, Ruthie “Racer” Bowler is continuing her 2015 Aussie Racing Cars campaign with a return to Tasmania and Symmons Plains. Whilst bringing the popular Ford Coupe back to Launceston is always excit...
I got in the car and drove like I thought I had to. BIG MISTAKE!20140728041400
I got in the car and drove like I thought I had to. BIG MISTAKE!
Your Story MattersJuly 28, 2014
I started my racing, can’t call it a career as I only do it for fun……..in 2007. I was 43 and had been married for 25 years. I had no training, no input, no guidance. I got in the car and drove like I thought I had to. BIG mistake! I blew two engines,...
Profile: Zara Board20140621150050
Profile: Zara Board
Your Story MattersJune 21, 2014
With an amazingly supportive family, and race family, Zara has been able to travel all over Australia to compete in Junior Drag racing events, not just competing in races, but also appearing at car shows to encourage more people to enjoy the sport sh...
Profile: Sienna Comito20140621145012
Profile: Sienna Comito
Your Story MattersJune 21, 2014
Now Sienna now "drags" her brother Jayden to watch her race almost every weekend somewhere around the state of Western Australia with the Wanneroo Junior Motocross Club and Quad Riders WA....