Racers came from all throughout the central west with the biggest contingent coming from the Mudgee/Gulgong area with 12 cars.

Going into this year's competition, Holden was leading Ford with three wins to two in the quickest bracket.

Each bracket consists of eight cars, with the quickest going into Bracket 1, the next quickest eight slotting into Bracket 2 and so on.

This year four brackets were run in round-robin format, whereby each car runs in four rounds of competition and the two cars with the most wins meet in the bracket final to decide the winner.

The Bracket 1 final was fought out between Dubbo's Graham Tongue in his turbocharged Ford BA dragster and Billimari's Paul Barham in his 302 Ford-powered 1979 Cortina.

Unfortunately for Tongue the end came quickly as he left before the green light, drawing the red light and disqualifying himself. Barham took the automatic win with a time of 6.56 seconds.

This now levels the score for top bracket victories at 3-all for Ford and Holden.

Earlier in the meeting Barham had run his Cortina through for a best time of 6.48 seconds to be the meeting's quickest Ford. Holden may have missed out on moving well ahead with the wins but Cowra's Steve Barnes ran his 350 Chev-powered FX Holden, "FX Files", to the meeting's quickest time of 6.32 seconds.

Reigning Bodangora Track Champion, Forbes' Mick Little, won all four races in Bracket 2 with his 350 Chev-powered LJ Torana to automatically win.

The runner-up position was fought out between Mudgee's Aaron Murphy and Cowra's Mick Francis, each having three round wins to their credit. Murphy's little 302 Ford-powered 1974 Mazda ute took the honours over the 355 Chev-powered 1979 Torana of Francis.

Bracket 3 was the same as Bracket 2 in that Mudgee's Alan Featherbe took the automatic win with four round wins in his 250 Ford Cortina and the runner-up position was filled by another Mudgee racer, Anthony Roe, whose 1976 Holden 1-Tonner defeated the 1991 Commodore of Grenfell's Trevor Ryan.

Bracket 4 had two racers on four wins each meeting in the final. Mudgee's Michael Bennett ran

his VL Commodore to a win in

9.96 seconds on his 9.88 dial-in, while Dubbo's Matt Fistr had to

be content with runner-up when his VH Commodore was disqualified for running quicker than his nominated 10.95 dial-in with a 10.62.

The next meeting at Bodangora will be the Toyota Nationals on Easter Sunday and further races are scheduled for May, August, September and November, the dates of which are to be confirmed.