MATT Loy will be one of the Warwick drivers in action in the final round of the JP Racing Dragfest Series this weekend.

He first drove a junior dragster at age seven and has worked his way up the classes.

Matt drove a super street car, modified dragster and now has a LX Torana hatchback which he will start in supercharged outlaws.

He has competed at Willowbank, Roma, Benaraby (Gladstone) and Sydney.

Matt has been runner-up in his class at the Sydney International Dragway.

His father John said Matt did most of the work on the Torana himself.

"He tunes up the car before each race meeting and does all the services and most of the repairs,” John said.

When he travels to Sydney to race, his crew is predominantly his father John, mother Jenny, girlfriend Brittany Rigney, sister Brittany Loy, his mate Darryl Freeman from Laidley, Ross Costello and Chuck Fish.

Matt has been asked to make a guest appearance at Lakeside Raceway later this year for some exhibition passes.

His girlfriend Brittany Rigney will be racing in a 1977 Toyota Corona station wagon in the fast street class at Dragfest.

The Corona is powered by a 350 Chev motor and she is expected to be in the seven-second range with her passes over the 200m (1/8 mile).

Rigney is in her second year as a drag racer after first starting with a V6 Holden Commodore in the street class.

Matt's cousin Glen Loy will race in a WB Holden ute with a twin turbo Chev motor.

Glen has been building his ute for the past year and will be competing in his first Dragfest round in the ute this weekend in the radial class.

His best passes are set to be timed in the low six second range.

Like so many of the members of the Warwick District Drag Racing Association, he started in junior dragster and has raced in a number of different classes.

Warwick driver Dennis Glanville will race in the quick ET class.

Ross Costello is set to compete in the super sedan class in his Holden EJ ute.

The Pratt family from Warwick have three entrants, Jason, Rodney and Michael. Damien Holyoak will be in the drag bike class while his daughter Rachel Holyoak will compete in street bike.

Bill Martland, Cameron Hunt, Dale Lee and Larry Kolb are drivers who live on the Southern Downs and will compete in Dragfest.

The Warwick club comprises many members who live away from the town but call Warwick Dragway their home track like 6Bangers co-organiser Lyn Stewart who lives at Westbrook.

Dragfest started 13 years ago and despite drag racing being one of the sports hit most by rain, there have not been any cancellations.

The event started with 80 competitors and has reached 268.

Racing will be in quick ET, extreme sedan, fast street, street, drag bike, young guns, blown outlaws, radial, nostalgia street (pre-1978) and street bike classes.