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16:05

Our Champions' Gallery has now been posted, you can view it via the Event Index page. If you do not see the pictures when you load the page then click on your Browser's Refresh key.

That's the end of our coverage of the UK National Finals, thanks you very much for tuning in. Our next event coverage, and our final event coverage of 2006, will be from the Top Fuel Exhibibition at the Bahrain International Circuit on 25th-27th October.

This weekend's Event Coverage has been brought to you in association with American Car Imports.

14:45

Subject to ratification, the 2006 UK Champions are as follow. Congratulations to:

MSA British Drag Racing Championship: Rob Turner, runner-up Dave Wilson
Super Modified: Team Ellis, runner-up Rob Smallworth
Super Pro ET: Martyn Jones, runner-up Nick Spence
Pro ET: Lee Huxley, runner-up Kev Slyfield
Sportsman ET: Geoff Cowley, runner-up Brian Huxley
Super Comp: Chris Johnson, runner-up Shaun Lathan
Super Gas: Tim Adam, runners-up Steve Dunn/Jon Evans
Super Street: Bob Lees, runner-up John Grant
Junior Dragster: Scott Hauser, runner-up Nick Mugridge
9.50 Bike: Andy Bird, runner-up Richard Sawatzki
Street Eliminator: Ian Hook, runner-up TBC

Sportsman ET had to go to a tie-breaker as Geoff Cowley and Brian Huxley ended up on equal points. Geoff has won three events this year and Brian one, so Geoff takes the title.

ACU Top Fuel Bike: Steve Carey, runner-up Ian Turburville
ACU Funny Bike: Neil Midgley, runner-up Tim Blakemore
ACU Pro Stock Bike: Dave Beck, runner-up Len Paget
ACU Comp Bike: Kev Charman, runner-up Phil Leamon
ACU Super Street Bike: Jamie Sneddon, runner-up Steve Venables

Wild Bunch Real Steel Series: Roy Wilding, runner-up TBC
VW Pro: Glynn Morgan, runner-up Martin Charles
VW Sportsman: Paul Herbert, runner-up Graham Fairhead
VW Alternate Engine: Matt Finney, runner-up Mark Skeen

NAST Supertwin Fuel: Wendy Clutterbuck, runner-up Duncan Hocking
NAST Supertwin Gas: John Floyd, runner-up Jerry Collier
NAST Supertwin Street: Dave Jones, runner-up Steve Folds
NAST Supertwin Modified TBC

13:40

The rain isn't going away and even if it stopped now the track would take a number of hours to drive so Race Director Darren Prentice has called the event.

Stay tuned and we will bring you this year's Champions and today's gallery.

12:00

Super Pro ET eliminations round 1 winners:

John Everitt and Nick Spence were getting ready to stage when the rain started to come down again. Stay tuned.

11:50

Pro ET qualifying final top five:

1. John Atkinson +0.007 9.457/142.42
2. Vic Amato +0.012 10.002/134.70
3. Kev Slyfield +0.032 11.772/112.80
4. Lee Huxley +0.034 10.724/124.37
5. Dan Page +0.047 11.737/114.78

Now we go into eliminations.

9:00

Good morning and welcome from Santa Pod Raceway. It's day two of the UK National Finals and we're here to bring you all the action in association with American Car Imports.

The Webster Race Engineering/MPM Oil webcam is on-line and broadcasting a picture every two minutes.

The traditional raceday Good Morning to our US correspondents Ed O'Connell and Kathy Hileman who are tuned in from Rye, NH. Hope you are having a good weekend guys and hang on in there Ed, only a few weeks to go huh?

If you were tuned in yesterday then you will remember that the way it was left was that we would attempt to complete cycle two of qualifying this morning, so long as the track opened at 9:00, and then go into eliminations. This was of course a good plan, right up until 4:00 this morning when we had a monumental storm and most of the UK's water requirement for a week fell onto Santa Pod accompanied by thunder and lightning. So as you can imagine the track crew are out there right now working their socks off to get the track ready. Qualifying cycle two has been cancelled with the exception of the last two pairs of Pro ET session two; Top Methanol and Top Fuel Bike will also have another qualifying session this morning. As I type the track crew are concentrating on the shutdown area, looking out of Race Control the sky is blue with light high cloud and the sun is shining on the track.

Simon is sitting to my right working away on this morning's first set of pit notes so stay tuned for those. Stay tuned and as soon as the track opens we'll bring you all the news.