ANDRA Grand Finals at Dragway at The Bend

Regional Sportsman Championship

When all was said and done, it was the following racers who were heralded as the championship winners, taking home the Gold ANDRA Championship Christmas Tree trophies as reward for their triumphant performances across the 2025/2026 season:  Cooper Plummer (New Gen Business Park Junior Drag Bike), Dean Jamieson (Ballistic Performance Parts Modified Bike), and Edge Mallis (New Gen Business Park Competition Bike).

Also with plenty to smile about were the championship runners-up: Bailey Paul (New Gen Business Park Junior Drag Bike), Bryan Finn (Ballistic Performance Parts Modified Bike), and Jake Hamilton-Moderate (New Gen Business Park Competition Bike), and Craig Geddes (Competition Eliminator).

Plummer and Mallis also took out event victories, joined in the ANDRA Grand Finals’ winners’ circle by Peter Bartlett (Ballistic Performance Parts Modified Bike).

Alongside their title runners-up, Jake Hamilton-Moderate (New Gen Business Park Competition Bike) also collected ANDRA Grand Final event runners-up trophies, alongside fellow event runners-up Cooper Ashelford (New Gen Business Park Junior Drag Bike), and Derryn McGregor (Ballistic Performance Parts Modified Bike).

Also presented Top Qualifier Medallions presented by New Gen Business Park, which were claimed by  Lucas Bergamin (New Gen Business Park Junior Drag Bike), Dean Jamieson (Ballistic Performance Parts Modified Bike), and Edge Mallis (New Gen Business Park Competition Bike).

Competition Bike

Modified Bike

Junior Drag Bike

For Cooper Plummer, not only did he take out the New Gen Business Park Junior Drag Bike Championship and the ANDRA Grand Final event win, but he was also named as the 2026 John Storm Memorial winner – the first ever Junior Drag Bike competitor to do so, and the first Junior racer since 2015.

Commissioned in memory of Mr John Storm, the first National Director of ANDRA, the John Storm Memorial Trophy is an annual national award made to the competitor in Group Two, Three or Four who scores the highest total overall points from all rounds of the ANDRA Regional Sportsman Championship, including the final event.

The 16-year-old was understandably overwhelmed by the enormity of his achievement.

“I really have no idea what to say, I never thought I would actually get that!” Plummer grinned.

“It means a lot, to be the first Junior Bike to win the John Storm Memorial, and the first Junior in 11 years.

“To win the title, I worked hard for it, I have been chasing an ANDRA title for six years, and to finally get it is a dream come true.

“To then win the event as well, well that was a big bonus!

“I am pretty much speechless, I just don’t know what to say.

“This is a big reward for everything we have put in, all the kilometres we have travelled, all the people we have helped, all the people who have helped us, it is just massive.

“It was a great Junior Drag Bike battle, it was really fun having some good competition the entire season and having a five way battle going into the Grand Final.

“I want to say a big thank you to Luas Bergamin – he is the one who convinced me to get my parents to buy me a Junior Drag Bike and today was his last meeting, and I was the last person to knock him out of eliminations!

“I want to say thank you to the entire field, and also to Dragway at The Bend, all the track staff and volunteers, and ANDRA, SADRA, my mum, dad, and Michael, and all my sponsors and supporters including David Collis, Bridgestone Select Aberfoyle Park, SA Truck Tarps and Service, Westside Hydraulics, Highbury Automotive Services and Repairs , Audisound, Revolution Racegear, Modcon Civil, Sock Lyf, Mike Pasin, Bradley Hicks HB Racing, Maxxi, Lisa Bourne, Allstate Locksmith, and Archie Fabian Motorsport. We couldn’t have done this without you.”

The Australian National Drag Racing Association Ltd, or ANDRA for short, is the drag racing sanctioning body of Australia. The organization was created in 1973 from a more drag racing oriented faction of the Australian Hot Rod Federation. Today ANDRA sanctions races throughout Australia and throughout the year at all levels, from Top Fuel to Junior Dragster, on everything from temporary regional tracks to international standard facilities in capital cities. ANDRA and its members make drag racing a family-friendly, safe sport. So come along as a spectator or bring your street car to an “off-street” event and enjoy the excitement that is Australian drag racing. www.andra.com.au