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15:50

Pouring with rain, blowing a gale, race officials have cancelled the race.

Stay tuned as Simon has more pit notes and Patrik is putting together a gallery.

14:10

Top Doorslammer eliminations round 2

Adam Flamholc 3.8246/339.62 def. Åke Eliasson 4.3027/289.23
Jonas Malmqvist 4.4724/289.087 def. Victor Jansson 7.0288/99.43
Rimbert Vahlström 3.8025/316.90 def. Stefan Holmberg 3.9939/308.22
Micke Lindahl 3.9022.210.17 def. Benny Strand 3.9256/305.43

13:55

FIA Pro Stock eliminations round 1

Michael Malmgren 6.6497/329.67 def. Christian Sagelv 6.8378/322.39

Christian got a big 0.0571 to 0.1084 jump on Michael, it was a visible holeshot. Christian held his own to sixty 1.0051 to Michael's 1.0055, Christian's car drifted left a little probably losing him some time but by then Michael was reeling him in anyway with the much better eighth 4.2804/267.19 to 4.3964/259.74.

Thomas Lindström 6.6274/334.78 def. Sampsa Palos 7.8535/253.16

Sampsa got the jump on Thomas 0.0210 to 0.0783 but hit shake almost immediately, 1.3990 to sixty, pedalled and then rolled off the throttle. 1.0115 to sixty for Thomas, 4.2745/269.60 at the eighth, straight and clean as you like.

Simon Gustafsson shut off, Magnus Pettersson shut off

Simon and Magnus pulling forward to stage when drops of rain started to fall, signalled to shut off.

Magnus Pettersson 6.6765/334.78 def. Simon Gustafsson 6.7412/330.48

Great race! Simon away first 0.0610 to 0.0803, sounded like Simon had to deal with a little shake at sixty 1.0213 to Magnus' 1.0089, Magnus did a gentle job of reeling Simon in 4.3012/266.27 at the eighth to Simon's 4.3395/262.77, it looked close from here.

Jimmy Ålund 6.5319.344,39 def. Jan Ericsson 13.2754/83.23

Jimmy got the jump 0.1035 to 0.1934 and had the better sixty 0.9936 to Jan's 1.0522. Jan sounded to lose drive and was off the gas before 300 feet. Jimmy to the eighth in 4.2201/273.28, made it look easy.

13:20

FIA Top Methanol Funny Car eliminations round 1

Micke Larsson v Leif Andréasson no result

Micke visibly away first 0.1476 to 0.4900. Leif with the much better sixty 0.9659 to 1.0515 and then it all went horribly wrong. Leif's car was heading gently left but Micke's FC made a hard right and pretty much T-boned Leif's FC. Leif's car was turned upside down by the impact and something flew way into the air, looked to me like a blower pulley, last seen way above the right grandstand and heading for the field behind the arena. The two cars were tangled together, one of the motors screamed and then banged, the two cars then went their separate ways, Leif's car slid upside down across the track and hit the left guardrail in the second eighth and then slid back across the track close to Micke's FC which stopped by the right guardrail just after the stripe. Safety crews shot into action. Leif quickly reassured everyone that he was quite OK by meeting his crew in front of the right grandstand, patiently ran the gauntlet of lenses being stuck in his face. Micke was extracted from his car and then attended to at trackside before being taken to the medical centre, and was then helicoptered to hospital. We await word on his condition. No E-Mails thank you, what I have told you is what the crowd here have been told and I know no more than that.

Johnny Oksa 6.1009/394.74 def. Ari Pietilä 8.4261.259.62

300-foot burnouts by Ari and Johnny. Ari away first 0.0833 to 0.1268 but then hit shake, 2.0035 to sixty shows you how bad, on and off the throttle a couple of times and shut it off by the eighth. 0.9967 to sixty for Johnny, a brief pedal and then a nice straight run, 4.0660/303.03 at the eighth.

Johan Lindberg 12.2372/74.64 bye

#1 qualifier bye for Johan. 0.9787 to sixty for Johan, shake and the FC went for the centre line, pumped the pedal a couple of times and shut off.

12:25

FIA Top Fuel Dragster eliminations round 1

Urs Erbacher 5.2813/288.15 def. Liam Jones 8.5245/117.29

Liam away first 0.0971 to Eurodragster.com sponsor Urs' 0.1123, Liam with the better sixty 0.9149 to Urs' 0.9467. Shake for both and a brief pedalfest ensued, Liam pedalled once then got off the gas, Urs pedalled a couple of times then it looked as if his blower belt broke, slowing 4.0449/288.15 at the eighth.

Anita Mäkelä 3.9233/474.10 def. Björn Mårtensson 6.6596/170.35

Anita's car visibly moved first 0.1742 to 0.2449, absolute stormer of a sixty at 0.8384 to Björn's 1.0177, Björn's tyres started to smoke and he shut it off after the dragster turned right. 2.1747/303.20 (188.40 mph) to 330 feet for Anita, 3.1224/433.39 at the eighth, tyres were blackstriping after the eighth but Anita was on the gas all the way and in fact it looks like she drove it way out the back door, but then a huge ball of flame from the motor and what looked like quite a big fire all the way down the shutdown area. Safety crews chased Anita down. Some clean-up at the end of the track where Anita's car stopped.

Duncan Micallef 4.5212/390.46 def. Stig Neergaard 6.3079/157.02 DQ

More high drama. Duncan's car visbily moved first 0.1038 to 0.1443 and he had the quicker sixty 0.8621 to Stig's 0.8844 Stig's dragster was headed left pretty much from the hit and he took out the 330 foot reflector and crossed the centre line, Duncan moved to the left. When Stig corrected the dragster went hard right, up on two wheels (front and back) at more than forty five degrees and at that point I would wager that every person in the place thought that that car was going over and into the guardrail, or both. However Stig managed to keep it upright and get it straight enough that only his rear right slick sideswiped the guardrail, clocks read 4.1493/200.00 at the eighth. 3.4123/311.06 at the eighth for Duncan, off the gas early with smoke from his motor.

Micke Kågered 4.0086/456.85 def. Jari Halinen 11.1051/113.90

Jari visibly got the jump 0.0772 to 0.1387, tyres up in smoke a few feet off the line, 1.1698 to sixty and the car was drifting to the right so Jari had to get off it. 0.8670 to sixty for Micke, 2.2340/297.19 at 330 feet, 3.1982/428.57 at the eighth, blackstriping all the way. A puff of smoke as Micke got off the gas a touch before the stripe but job done.

11:25

FIA Pro Modified eliminations round 1

Micke Gullqvist 5.8444/400.59 def. David Vegter 17.7059/80.32

David's car moved to the left during the burnout, from here looked as if the left tyre track went into the yellow refuge. David hit instant shake, 1.9313 to sixty already shut off. 0.9673 to sixty for Micke, storming 3.8497/314.14 at the eighth. Micke on the first half of a European ET record, well done Micke!

Tero Laukkanen 5.9938/397.64 def. Johan Westberg 7.0737/225.38 DQ

-0.0009 red by Johan handed it to Tero. Superb straight run for Tero, 1.0329 to sixty, 4.0290/314.32 at the eighth, put on 83 kmh in the second half. Simon on pit note duty reported in that Tero is having to change a motor; when Simon called in the drivers had been given the one-hour heads-up for round two

Anders Nilsson 6.1213/374.22 def. Åke Persson 7.1813/307.52

Anders away first 0.0953 to 0.4633, Åke hit shake after sixty feet 1.0877 then feathered the throttle as his car made a move to the right, back on but ultimately shut off early. 0.9939 to sixty for Anders, 4.0070/298.18 at the eighth.

Roger Johansson 8.2349/313.41 def. Freddy Fagerström 15.1324/87.35 DQ

Roger dodged a bullet here. No burnout to speak of for Freddy then he bumped out of stage as the lights ran, 0.2136 red. The front of Roger's Mustang jumped in the air at the hit and the left exhaust spat a huge gout of flame, 1.1758 to sixty, the car moved around its lane shaking the tyres and Roger was on and off the gas, off it by the eighth 5.3882/204.31.

Robert Joosten 8.9541/203.39 def. Håkan Persson 9.9530/163.64

Drama at the start as first alternate Jan Bränvall couldn't start and next alternate Håkan was sat behind him. Håkan drove a great swerving overtaking manoeuvre around Jan. Robert visibly away first 0.0889 to 0.2378 and had the better sixty 1.0391 to Håkan's shaking 1.4742. Robert then hit shake and got off the gas. Then both drivers realised that the other one was not under power and well, not really a pedalfest but a featherfest ensued. Robert had it at the eighth 5.5486/186.72 to 6.1064/208.65 and got there first still light on the throttle.

Mats Eriksson 6.1258/383.25 bye, Andreas Arthursson broke

Andreas had several attempts at starting but in the end didn't make the bleach box. Mats took a bye with not a foot wrong. 0.9875 to sixty and 4.0347/295.89 at the eighth,

Bruno Bader 6.0476/361.93 bye

Bruno due to face Mattias Wulcan to whom best wishes, both available alternates already used up so Bruno got the bye. 1.0060 to sixty, 3.9397/302.69 at the eighth, the Vette swaying gently all the way.

Niclas Andersson 5.9336/382.17 def. Micke Johansson 8.0226/264.58

Visible 0.1513 to 0.5300 holeshot for Niclas. 0.9716 to sixty to Micke's shaking 1.3687, Micke's Challenger started weaving left and right and then made a move for the centre line and he shut off. Picture perfect run for Niclas, meteoric 3.8770/307.52 at the eighth.

10:05

Simon has posted today's first set of pit notes which you can check out via the Event Index.

EDRS Pro Nordic Super Street Bike eliminations round 1 winners

Cloud of smoke and trail of oil from Svein Ole Brændhagen's bike. Clean-up called with one pair left to run.

Anders Blanck 8.3927/283.91, Mogens Lund 7.7027/254.36, Alex Hope 7.6070/303.20, Dag Wagenius 7.8798/289.54, Björn Friström 7.4074/306.99, Svein Ole Brændhagen 8.0820/225.09, Rick Stubbins 8.1296/255.44

09:30

Stock / Super Stock eliminations round 1 winners

Jarmo Grönman (11.35) 10.1360/211.68 bye, Markus Svensson (11.27) 11.3788/189.47, Arto Sulopuisto (10.12) 10.5011/193.62, Per Fagerström (11.26) 11.3518/191.69, Erik Wallin (11.00) 10.3767/204.00 bye (Björn Bondesson no show), Nic Williams (9.82) 9.8863/195.51, Lars Nyberg (10.39) 10.465/186.21, Ari Kökkö (8.99) 9.0875/233.46, Thomas Strand (10.95) 11.0044/190.68, Bo Nylund (10.65) 10.6636/178.75, Anders Eriksson (11.40) 10.6508/197.37 bye (Timo Eronen no show), Uffe Edwardsson (11.25) 10.3237/205.09 bye (Yrjö Wallius no show), Tarmo Mikkola (9.88) 9.9442/190.34

09:20

Super Comp eliminations round 1 winners

Perfect 8.900 for Kevin Yrjövaara in his race against Daniel Norberg, well done Kevin!

Matilda Sjöström-Andersson 8.9272/250.00 bye, Kristina Nygren 8.9092/257.76, Kevin Yrjövaara 8.9001/269.87, Bo Ragnebro 8.9515/224.53, Julia Borén Stolt 9.1690/217.83, Julie Nataas 8.9272/280.37 bye (Gunar Hammarbäck no show), Terje Røisgård 8.9864/236.84, Johanna Granholm 8.9695/262.01 bye (Hampus Gisslén no show), Leif Andersson 8.9361/262.26

08:10

Good morning and welcome from Tierp Arena for our coverage of the Tierp Internationals brought to you in association with John Woolfe Racing.

Cloudy but dry here. Last night it was blowing a gale and stuff was going everywhere but thankfully that it receded overnight. The traditional Raceday Good Morning to our US Correspondent Kathy Hileman who is tuned in from Rye, NH, hope you are having a good weekend Kathy. A big Good Morning also to the Eurodragsterholics.

Our buddies at Smart TV are presenting Web TV today for a one-off payment of €15. Visit ppv.smarttv.se for details; because of our workload here any webcast enquiries directed to us will be routed straight to Deleted Items, as indeed will other queries which could easily be answered by reading our reports, the entry list etc.

As is usual when the timing data is provided by Time-Tree we are running split-screen report / result pages. When the Pros run we will try to update between each pair so keep hitting Refresh.

Courtesy of Assistant Clerk of the Course Tomas Pettersson, today's provisional running order is available via the Event Index. As you know we lost a lot of time to rain yesterday; the plan was to get all of the Sportsman classes down to eight but this was only possible for Comp Eliminator and Top Dooslammer. This morning we start with the first rounds of Super Comp and Stock / Super Stock then Super Street Bike and FIA Pro Modified followed by the opening ceremony.

Stay tuned and when the wheels start to turn we'll bring you the news.