yea these guys spend a ####e load on engineering, advertising etc, companies are founded on like a couple of cars plus its more drag racing funny cars and the other long ones aussies are more interested in standard motors built to perform on standard cars not ones that are built from the ground up and have totally different body shells and chassis.... supposedly in full body performance and rotarys etc south americans lead the way with aussies a fair way behind they have cars in the 6 sec brackets but in this class of racing americans are actually behind us not the other way around...