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17:30

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16:15

Final results

Funny Bike: Tim Blakemore no time bye
Pro Stock Bike: Len Paget 7.3443/178.48 def. Dave Beck 7.3548/182.66
Super Street Bike: Steve Venables 7.6676/189.59 def. Graham Balchin 11.0209/67.08
Comp Bike: Ivan Birch 7.4582/174.95 def. Stu Crane 7.8313/170.34
9.50 Bike: Richard Sawatzki 9.5469/136.88 def. Martin Walker 9.6400/139.80
8.50 Bike: Paul Watson 8.5785/140.05 def. Chris Jones 8.7298/167.24
Supertwin Fuel: Martin Blackwell 8.2636/158.50 bye, Wendy Clutterbuck shut off
Supertwin Gas: Chris Mott 8.9404/144.28 def. Andy Smith 9.3862/138.50
Supertwin ET: Aaron Sparks (12.20) 12.3728/105.71 def. Joe Elliott (10.50) 10.5633/135.93

14:40

Funny Bike eliminations round 2 winners:

Tim Blakemore staged, bye (Dave Holland no show)

No sign of Neil Midgley or Chris Hall so it's a bye in the final for Tim.

14:35

Comp Bike eliminations round 2 winners:

Stu Crane 7.7491/169.69, Ivan Birch 7.4849/178.39

Super Street Bike eliminations round 3 winners:

Graham Balchin 7.3933/152.56, Steve Venables 7.3302/196.09

Pro Stock Bike eliminations round 3 winners:

Len Paget 7.3692/176.40 bye, Dave Beck 7.3004/179.79

14:10

9.50 Bike eliminations round 3 winners:

Richard Sawatzki 9.7815/118.58, Martin Walker 9.6056/127.21

Supertwin ET eliminations round 3 winners:

Aaron Sparks (12.20) 12.4327/107.73 bye, Joe Elliott (10.50) 10.6770/133.08

Supertwin Gas eliminations round 2 winners:

Chris Mott 8.8544/145.21, Andy Smith 9.3986/138.54

Chris Mott backs up his 8.811 and 145.29 for new NAST records, well done Chris!

13:20

Super Street Bike eliminations round 2 winners:

Graham Balchin 7.4319/196.94, Steve Venables 7.3080/196.93, Richard Stubbins 7.4257/192.76, Mark Watkins 7.7152/191.35

Steve Venables sets a new ACU Super Street Bike ET record of 7.308 backed up by his 7.369 in round one, well done Ven! Missed out on the speed record this time but at least one more chance to sort that.

13:15

Supertwin Fuel eliminations round 1 winners:

Martin Blackwell staged (bye), Wendy Clutterbuck 10.2357/138.57 bye (Duncan Hocking no show)

Pro Stock Bike eliminations round 1 winners:

Len Paget 7.4444/177.80 bye (Paul King no show), Dave Beck 7.3137/180.50, Richard Gipp 7.5864/169.06

13:05

Funny Bike eliminations round 1 winners:

Dave Holland 12.2988/53.83 bye (Dave Bailey no show), Neil Midgley 7.2135/145.67, Chris Hall 7.0443/143.34, Tim Blakemore 7.3203/172.22

Another groan and cloud of smoke from Dave Holland's motor at about 100 feet, oil was found on the track but hopefully not another perforated motor.

12:40

Supertwin Gas eliminations round 1 winners:

Chris Mott 8.8111/145.29 bye, Ric Naylor 9.8620/132.88, Andy Smith 9.3561/139.57 bye (Neil Stedman no show), Les Harris 9.8659/140.26

Chris Mott on new NAST Supertwin Gas ET and speed records if he can back them up, well done Motty! Chris thinks that this may have beaten the world best for a V-Rod motor too. He does all of this after putting Eurodragster.com decals on his bike, a fact we present without comment.

Comp Bike eliminations round 1 winners:

Dave Peters 7.4658/167.19, Ivan Birch 7.4919/178.42, Stu Crane 7.9374/169.12, Phil Leamon 8.3596/156.78

Dave Peters missed out on backing up his Comp Bike speed record this time around but he has at least one more shot at it yet.

12:30

9.50 Bike eliminations round 2 winners:

Richard Sawatzki 9.7366/118.59, Augy Harrison 9.5843/147.10, Steve Ashby 9.5020/146.62, Martin Walker 9.5481/141.55 bye

Richard Beck is carrying the requisite stickers so he will be £95 better off courtesy of the Eurodragster.com/Gold RV Perfect ET Award after his 9.500 in round one of eliminations. The Perfect ET Award has been now won by a bike racer for two events running.

Richard has just been up to see us and asked us to donate the £95 to the local Air Ambulance, nice one Richard.

8.50 Bike eliminations round 2 winners:

Chris Jones 9.0446/148.03, Paul Watson 8.8516/154.64

Supertwin ET eliminations round 2 winners:

Aaron Sparks (12.20) 12.3339/107.20, Mike Nelthorpe (13.00) 12.8457/108.23, Joe Elliott (10.50) 10.5266/133.91

Trackside conditions are 17.3 C, 50% humidity and 29.91 inches of air, track temperature is 26.1 C.

11:30

8.50 Bike eliminations round 1 winners:

Chris Jones staged (bye), Mark Winder 9.1917/157.96 bye (Richard Hann no show), Paul Watson 9.1015/155.16, Andy Fawcett 9.3337/146.71 bye (Jon Webster no show)

Super Street Bike eliminations round 1 winners:

Brad O'Connor 7.5780/192.87 bye (Pete Bellenie broke), Scott Baldwin 7.6260/188.71, Mark Watkins 8.5667/137.29, Ade Lockley 7.8471/179.19, Richard Stubbins 7.4629/192.85, Graham Balchin 7.6509/188.80, Steve Venables 7.3639/199.57, Dave Smith 7.6372/190.33

Ven does the first half of an ACU Super Street Bike speed record, and so close to 200 mph, well done Ven!

We're now into another Straightliners session, stay tuned.

11:15

Trackside conditions at the start of 9.50 Bike were 18.2 C, 52% humidity and 29.91 inches of air.

9.50 Bike eliminations round 1 winners:

Richard Sawatzki 9.5230/145.20, Augy Harrison 9.5803/143.38, Andy Haley 9.7568/143.34, Phil Pratt 9.9301/109.85, Martin Walker 9.5246/132.79, Richard Beck 9.5004/124.04, Steve Ashby 10.0018/107.36

A Perfect ET for Richard Beck, well done Jim! A quick check to see whether his bike is carrying the Eurodragster.com/Gold RV stickers and he could be a lot better off.

Supertwin ET eliminations round 1 winners:

10:10

Super Street Bike qualifying final top five:

1. Graham Balchin 7.3881/194.47
2. Steve Venables 7.4245/194.64
3. Richard Stubbins 7.4614/191.21
4. Brad O'Connor 7.5757/193.56
5. Mark Watkins 7.6496/191.13

Graham Balchin blew his Personal Best into next week and took #1 spot, well done Graham! Steve Venables in the other lane improved but had to take #2 spot to Graham. A close thing in the pairing between Eurodragster.com News sponsor Jamie Sneddon and Ian Cotton as Jamie crossed lanes right in front of Ian, you could almost read Ian's surprise from here but both racers kept their heads and avoided one another.

We're now going into an hour of Straightliners, tune back in an hour and we'll bring you the results from eliminations.

10:00

Supertwin Fuel final qualifying:

1. Martin Blackwell 9.1630/133.19
2. Wendy Clutterbuck 10.3371/139.95
3. Duncan Hocking 16.3722/45.16

Only Wendy Clutterbuck turned out in this session.

Pro Stock Bike qualifying final top five:

1. Len Paget 7.3683/179.21
2. Dave Beck 7.3848/177.63
3. Richard Gipp 7.5916/173.68
4. Ray Debben 7.7889/171.69
5. Jerry Collier 7.8154/167.29

An improvement for Richard Gipp in the first pairing but he stayed in #3 spot at that point.

9:50

Comp Bike qualifying final top five:

1. Ivan Birch 7.4257/178.34
2. Dave Peters 7.6235/187.30
3. Stu Crane 7.7380/169.76
4. Phil Leamon 8.2388/157.88
5. Bob Brooks 8.4164/162.42

No changes to the top five in this session.

Funny Bike qualifying final top five:

1. Tim Blakemore 6.8353/188.79
2. Neil Midgley 6.9139/196.24
3. Chris Hall 6.9748/191.94
4. Dave Bailey 7.0959/180.62
5. Dave Holland 7.1112/152.12

A tremendous match between Neil Midgley and Tim Blakemore to open the session, improvements for both, Neil getting the jump but Tim riding through shake you could feel here in Race Control and getting there first by 0.0026 or 8.98 inches and into #1 spot, I believe a Personal Best ET for Tim, well done Tim! A new PB also for Kev Charman in this session, 7.2908 which was good for #6 spot, well done Kev!

9:35

Supertwin ET qualifying final top five:

1. John Hackney +0.0228 9.8728/141.14
2. Aaron Sparks +0.0407 12.2407/109.27
3. Pete Harrison +0.0479 12.2470/110.07
4. Joe Elliott +0.0505 10.6005/135.94
5. Simon Clamp +0.0775 11.0775/121.03

Aaron Sparks into #spot in the second pairing of the session. In the next pairing an improvement for Joe Elliott but he stayed in place. Next pairing and Simon Clamp came into the top five at #5. John Hackney closed out the session by taking #1 spot back from Aaron.

Supertwin Gas qualifying final top five:

1. Chris Mott 8.9010/141.99
2. Andy Smith 9.3951/139.35
3. Les Harris 9.6763/140.23
4. Ric Naylor 9.9721/133.24
5. Dave Jones 9.9795/137.69

Dave Jones into the nines but stayed in #5 spot at that point.

9:25

9.50 Bike qualifying final top five:

1. Martin Walker 9.5142/132.40
2. Richard Sawatzki 9.5208/145.65
3. Steve Ashby 9.5222/133.62
4. Fred Furlong 9.5299/143.80
5. Wayne Saunders 9.5506/148.67

Richard Sawatzki into #2 spot in the fourth pairing of the session.

8.50 Bike qualifying final top five:

1. Chris Jones 8.5591/168.49
2. Paul Watson 8.5789/154.62
3. Richard Hann 8.5933/149.54
4. Andy Fawcett 8.6956/167.23
5. Paul Hambidge 8.9767/155.22

Andy Fawcett up into #3 spot in the first pairing. A great side-by-side between Chris Jones and then-leader Paul Watson, with Chris taking over #1 spot.

9:00

Good morning and welcome from Santa Pod Raceway for our coverage of the Extreme Performance Bike Weekend presented in association with American Car Imports.

The Webster Race Engineering/MPM Oil webcam is on-line and is set to post a picture every sixty seconds until the track closes tonight.

A big raceday Hello to our US correspondents Ed O'Connell and Kathy Hileman who are tuned in from Rye, NH. Hope you are having a great weekend guys.

The weather here is I'd say perfect. Hazy sunshine, feels mild. Right now it's 14.8 C and 29.91 inches of air, the weather station sensor is waterlogged from overnight so we'll sort that out and bring you the full conditions later. Track temperature is 14.0 C.

Word from Race Director Ian Marshall is that we are to have an extra cycle of qualifying this morning after we lost a cycle yesterday. Then we have an hour of Straightliners, and then we'll be into eliminations.

We'll be on the way very soon, stay tuned.