In 1973, seeking an identity of their own, drag racers involved in the Australian Street Rod Federation established the Australian National Drag Racing Association, or ANDRA as it’s better known. ANDRA was delegated by the Confederation of Australian Motor Sport (CAMS) as the governing body of drag racing in Australia, and until the nineties it remained the only Australian motor sport discipline operating independently with CAMS approval.

With the creation of ANDRA came a new system of classes, brackets and handicaps that we know today as Group Two. This opened up Australian drag racing beyond simple “heads up” competition, which remains the basis of our professional categories in Group One. In 1981 more new categories using "dial your own" handicaps were introduced as Group Three, and they remain the most popular areas of Australian drag racing.

In 1991, Group Four was introduced, combining the excitement of the “heads-up” start with the accessibility of handicap competition, using the 9.90 fixed index. The final component of the comprehensive ANDRA Championship Drag Racing schedule was the addition of the popular Junior Dragster class in 1995, where future drivers face each other in half scale replicas of Top Fuel dragsters – the fastest racing cars on earth