MATT Loy has an ambition to be an Australian drag racing champion but first has some unfinished business at the Warwick Dragway today.

The 15-year-old has been competing in the junior dragster class since the age of eight, the minimum age allowed.

He won his first track championship at the Warwick Dragway in his first season and made it five in a row before missing out last year when Brandon Gosbell, of the Gold Coast, was victorious.

With the championship to be determined today in conjunction with the Whoop Ass Cup, Matt is in a close battle with Kiah Curling, of Tweed Heads.

In the national season which finished in June, Matt was second in the Australian championships for junior dragsters after competing in two rounds in Sydney and one at Willowbank.

While he will compete in as many rounds as possible in the next championship, Matt's big chance of championship success will be in 2012-2013, when the family plans to also compete in the series round in Perth.

"A lot of the juniors get together and send all the cars over to Perth by road transport and then fly over for the meeting," Matt said.

He has two more seasons as a junior and then hopes to win national championships as a senior.

"Maybe one day, I can tour America and drag race," he said.

This year, he is driving his second junior dragster.

"I could do 8.5 second passes (over the 200 metres at Warwick Dragway) in my first dragster and 7.9 seconds with my new one, the fastest you are allowed to go as a junior," he said.

"My dragster could go faster but is restricted to a speed of 90mph."

Each night in the week or two before a meeting, Matt and his father John head to the shed to service and maintain their drag racing vehicles.

If he wants to be a drag racer, Matt is in the right occupation, he has started a school-based apprenticeship as a diesel fitter, which works in well with the family excavating and earthmoving business, FG Loy and Sons.

If bull riders talk about the adrenalin rush of getting on a bull, it is the same with drag racers.

"There is an adrenalin rush each time I drive," he said.

"We are so close to the ground in junior dragsters, it is awesome over 200 metres."

Today, Matt hopes to be part of the Warwick team for the Whoop Ass Cup, a competition between Warwick and Toowoomba each year.

After the regular meeting on the day and night for the track championships, teams of equal numbers from both centres will be formed.

Warwick has won the trophy in five of the seven years.

"We just let Toowoomba win it last year," club president Chris Loy said.

In response to the claim in the Daily News this week by Mark Stewart, of Toowoomba, that the Warwick drivers should let their mothers drive to be a chance, Chris said that was all the host team needed to do to win.

Tonight, the cup will be head-to-head competitive racing between the two centres. The centre with the most wins will proudly win the cup.

Qualifying is from 1.30pm today and racing from 5.30pm.