James McFadden fought hard throughout last weekend’s Australian Sprintcar Title deciding feature race at Speedway City in South Australia, but despite his best efforts he ended up with an eighth place finish.

Sydney’s Ian Loudoun won a memorable 40th Lucas Oil Products Grand Annual Sprintcar Classic tonight at Warrnambool’s Sungold Stadium in front of a massive crowd. Loudoun gained the advantage from the outset and had to withstand late challenges from eventual runner up Craig Dollansky with Kerry Madsen finishing a fine third.

Yes, it was a fiery end to James McFadden’s Grand Annual Classic campaign. However, he wasn’t hot under the collar as a driver, but a potential winning result around the Premier Speedway track was ruined by a broken fuel nozzle that caused the fiery end.

A return to Heathcote Raceway after two decades has netted Gary Phillips a pleasing return to form, claiming the top qualifying spot and a semi-finals berth in the Aussie Slamfest Pro Modified eighth mile Series last weekend.

Donny Schatz rolled the dice on Sunday night January 1 at Supercheap Auto Archerfield Speedway, electing to invert the top fourteen drivers after winning the Dash and take a chance to add a couple of grand to the winner's cheque if he could come from row seven and win. Schatz may have rolled the dice - and good on him for doing so - but it was Shane Stewart who pocketed the extra coin with an impressive victory in Round 8 of the KRE Race Engines Sprintcar Track Championship.

There is a saying in sprintcar racing that goes; there are a lot more lows than highs. For James McFadden and the Scott Milling owned Totally Workwear Racing team they are currently riding a huge wave form, and are enjoying every minute of it.

ANDRA Pro Series Top Alcohol points leader Gary Phillips experienced the highs and lows of drag racing all in just a few seconds last month.

Feb 24, 2009

The Lucas Oil Products team will go into this weekend’s Westernationals well aware that it’s “make or break” time for the Top Doorslammer championship.

Currently sitting in third spot, Gary Phillips will feel the extra pressure of the Perth round, with fifty percent bonus points on offer as a reward for crossing the Nullarbor.

Feb 1, 2009

IN A SHATTERING END to a promising weekend, Top Alcohol Funny Car pilot Gary Phillips crossed the centre line to give away a finals berth at the Perth Motorplex on Saturday.

Kicking off the weekend with a dominant display of experience, Phillips qualified in the number one spot by posting both the quickest elapsed time and top speed for the meeting with a 5.697 at 252.80mph, stamping his authority on the event from the outset earning bonus points that could have an impact on the championship outcome at the end of the season.

In what has been hailed as the Biggest Drag Racing event held in Victoria in years, Gary Phillips has claimed the Top Doorslammer crown in the inaugural True Blue Drag Racing Championships at Calder Park Raceway.

Enjoying the fruits of a successful season so-far in Championship Drag Racing in Top Doorslammer and Top Alcohol alike, Phillips took his Lucas Oils1953 Studebaker to Melbourne to race at the ADRL (American Drag Racing League) style event.

January 21, 2009.

AS WEST AUSTRALIAN drag racing fans savour the thought of the upcoming round of Top Alcohol at the Motorplex, spare a thought for Queenslander Gary Phillips and his Lucas Oil team, who’s initial planning for the event is a distant memory.

Already engaged in wrestling with the logistical nightmare of trans-continental motorsport, Phillips has had to learn more than how to tune and drive a three thousand plus horsepower racecar to compete and win at the elite level of drag racing.

Every morning, Phillips heads down to the home-based workshop, with his first stop being the day by day calendar, already full of scribble before the season began.

Australian Drag Racing stalwart Gary Phillips is back in the winners circle posting his first win of the season in the Top Alcohol Lucas Oil Products Funny Car. In an all out domination of the category,

Philips not only won the event, but took a clean sweep of the round posting the fastest time and subsequently personal best of 5.59 sec for the 400m journey and top speed of 254mph (408km/h) elevating him to second on the national points table.