Super Pro ET racer Ian Turburville had to rerun his first round against Paula Atkin following a timing glitch. But when Paula didn't make the call Ian ran a single to go through.

Santa Pod Raceway's two seater dragster was run on all four days with delighted passengers. This morning, Chrstophe from Belgium was in the passenger seat. He said "I have been to Santa Pod Raceway several times, am a fan of Danny Bellio's and love Top Fuel so I saved to see what riding in a dragster is like- it was very exciting, both the launch and the speed down the track."

Top Fuel Dragster racer Thomas Nataas was delighted with 4.01/301 in the third session, however the final session was back to the tyre smoke.

Top Fuel Dragster racer Antti Horto said after the third run "It felt quick and the car is running really good - it is a bracket car. There is a little tyre shake but I drove through it." Both of his qualifying passes were 4.08, both run in the morning.

Top Fuel Dragster racer Chris Andrews ran 4.22, 4.12, 4.38 and 4.23 to go fifth. On his third pass he said "I had to lift at half track due to shake - I lost vision and got out of it as the car was going to the right." Tuner Eddie Corr is providing input to the team this weekend.

Fuel Funny Car racer Leif Helander ran a 5.52/265 in the first session (over the full quarter mile) but was unhappy with his helmet when a locking bracket became unlocked and allowed the visor to rise at speed and obscure his vision in the shut-down area. He brought the car to a safe halt and ran a 5.47/280 in the second session. After recovering the helmet from the grass verge where he had deposited it, he said "I will tape it on next time."

Fuel Funny Car racer John Spuffard was off the throttle with tyre spin on the first pass and shake on the second but had sufficient momentum to go 5.73 on the second attempt. He said after the first pass "It blew the tyres off at half track after it got up on them and the rear end washed out."

Fuel Funny Car racer Gordon Smith said "It was shake rattle and roll, but we ran on quite low oil pressure. It was 65lb/in on the start line but didn't move - if it had gone below 50, I would have been worried. The car went towards so I had a driving job on." A 5.78/231 was followed by shake and early shut-off on the hotter track in the afternoon.

Pro Stock Bike racer Ulf Ögge was improving throughout the qualifying, a pair of 7.20s in Q1 and Q3 being followed by a 7.16 in the final session to consolidate his second place in qualifying. Ulf leads the Championship by 10 points from Fredrik Fredlund and Kalle Lyren is another 16 points further back. With 20 points for a round win it will be close tomorrow.

Pro Stock Bike racer Gert-Jan Laseur also runs a Buell and ran a best of 7.28 to qualify fourth. He said "I am now sure of my shift points and everything I dreamed of in the bike's performance is now coming true."

Pro Stock Bike racer Ray Debben celebrated his 65th birthday on Thursday. He said "For me it's draw your pension on Thursday and race on... Saturday, because I don't think my best pass will qualify me. I have been struggling with different transmissions. Ray will continue to run his shop and continues to make parts for bike racers.

Pro Stock Bike racer Elvira Karlsson suffered ignition cutout problems yesterday which were cured by Veidec team principal Roger Lyren and she then ran 7.43, 7.33 and 7.49 to go no.5.

Pro Stock Bike Racer Martin Bishop is only five thousandths behind Elivira with the bike working well and consistently in 7.3-7.4s range. Martin was suffering slight burns from the exhaust on his foot and as a precaution, covered his riding boot in foil.

Pro Stock Bike racer Fredrik Fredlund ended in no.1 position with 7.10 with his other runs 7.16 and 7.14. He said "I need one more round than Ulf Ögge to get the championship. It is tight as we both have good bikes and teams."

Supertwin racer Martijn de Haas had problems with a gearbox shaft, clutch, an engine gasket and throttle linkage. His best of 7.69 came in session four, but it still left him on the outside looking in.

Pro Stock Bike racer and Eurodragster.com blogger Kalle Lyrén, suffering from a fever and a less-than-perfect engine, also has had to contend with gearbox issues today. He finished in third place with a 7.26.

Supertwin racer Job Heezen's bang from the engine on his 6.65 run this morning was an explosion resulting in the inlet coming off altogether. It looked repairable but there may be damage to the engine internals.

Supertwin racer Trond Høiberget is being helped by Supertwin racers Svein Olav Rolfstad and Hans-Christian Nilsen and Trond was pleased to improve his performance to a 6.99 in both sessions one and three.

Supertwin racer Nate Gagnon ran his best in the last session, a 6.664. After his third run, he sprayed the clutch area with water to avoid the primary belt melting. He said "We have been trying a few things that didn't work."

Supertwin racer Christian Jäger said after running his best of the weekend, 6.84, "We have now got a good baseline. We hope to have a good race and go third or even second in the championship. That is a big improvement from last year when I was tenth."

Supertwin racer Chris Hannam said "The bike left harder and dropped a cylinder in the same place. There are no issues, we are still learning and will turn it up. We are happy, there is great weather and the people are great. Thanks to Lucas for your support." On the fourth session engine problems resulted in the exit of what looked like a camshaft and a large pool of oil in the starting area.

Supertwin racer Samu Kemppainen said "We are happy with our setup and it is good to have Ron Houniet here. He is available when we need him and although the setup we are using is the same as when I ran a personal best, he is giving us ideas for what we should try.

Super Street Bike racer Danny Cockerill ran a 7.54 to go sixth this morning. He said "We wanted to step up. I have changed the turbo from a Garrett which is adapted for a bike, to a Precision turbo from Owen Developments which is designed specifically for a bike. To make it side-mounted I have a new header as well. It works well with the Hays clutch."

Super Street Bike racer Graham Dance said "There is a very tight spread in the first ten places and need to move up. The nitrous line came off in my second pass and the gas being pressurised at 900lb/in, whipped me in the face and got under my visor. It was a bit of a moment." Graham's best ET stayed at 7.59 after this morning's session in 8th place.

Super Street Bike racer Chris Reed, pictured with daughter and Junior Dragster racer Stacey, said we went out was no.1 qualifier for two pairs. The track is awesome, it seems to say "give me more and then takes it. I tried something in the second session and ran 8.7 - I won't bother to do that again. It wasn't quick but it was spectacular," he said of the wheel-up launch.

Top Fuel Bike racer Otto Knebl has suffered the bike cutting out on the launch which resulted in a broken cam at Tierp. With new parts and different settings, he ran a 9.33/139 to get in the field for tomorrow's eliminations.

Top Fuel Bike racer Steve Carey warmed the bike in the pits. Two tractionless passes on a new Hoosier tyre were put down to too high tyre pressure and too tight clutch setting. "The engine is fine and strong", he said. A later run with less pressure brought back the fishtailing which Steve calmly rode through to a 7.56/181 baseline pass.

Top Fuel Bike racer Steve Woollatt was happy to run a good time in the first session, 6.37/208. "We made a couple of things different on the fuel system and will try more of the same today." Steve went 6.57/218 this morning and remains in third place.

Pro Stock Bike racer Len Paget was joined by Motorcycle News Sports Editor Gary Pinchin, who covers a range of UK circuit racing, MotoGP and drag racing. Len said "I lowered and shortened the bike, put a different combination in the engine and changed the gearbox. We will disassemble it all after the season. We want to run a 7.4 or even 7.3 here, but yesterday I had wheelspin in 4th, 5th and 6th gears. The settings were too violent and the four link keeps stalling the tyre off the line - it needs to turn more."

Pro Stock racer Micke Callin suffered traction loss on launch. "I changed the four link for the first and second runs but have changed it back now. It ran fine at the Main Event but shook the tyres. It will get down the track if we can get the power down."

Junior Dragster racer Joe Kellett is collecting championship trophies in the UK, not being able to compete for the EDRS, although this is being looked at for next season.

Junior Dragster racer Harry Elliott runs the Santa Pod-owned junior funny car but is not in competition at this event.

Topspeed Automotive Steet Eliminator racer Mark Todd ran a best of 7.62 and is using the parachute to the extent of stripping the material off the pilot chute, used to deploy the main parachute. He said "It gets constant wear."

Topspeed Automotive Steet Eliminator racer Colin Lazenby said after this morning's run "The boys on the team have done a great job, they are tuning the car to get around the tyres. It's a fine line between shake and spinning the wheels, but this felt like a nice run." He qualified fourth with 7.76/186.

Top Methanol Dragster racer Manty Bugeja was looking to run a safe pass after 5.32 in the first session and shake in the second. The results were 5.37 and 5.35 which keeps him in no.1 qualifying position.

Top Methanol Dragster racer Krister Johansson ran a best of 5.45 and 5.55 in the final session to end fourth in the qualifying list. Tim Read is back with the team after work commitments took him to New York. Krister is looking hard for sponsors for next year.

Top Methanol Dragster racer Dave Wilson gets to stand on his slick to wrap the chute over the wing. He said "We haven't gone up in smoke all weekend but need to find the power to go quick. We are using our spare motor and it has thrown us a curved ball and we didn't quite catch it. We need a better baseline but will give it all we have got."

Several racers were carrying this tribute to the late Knut Soderqvist.

Top Methanol Dragster racer Chris Polidano has Jerry Darien on the team for the second event and the results of his input are now starting to happen. A 5.45 and 5.41 yesterday were followed by a 5.38 and 5.39 today for a solid no.2 on the qualifying list.

Top Methanol Dragster racer Dennis Habermann is no.3 in the listing with a 5.40. He said "We have suffered tyre shake and blown burst panels on both cars."

Top Methanol Funny Car racer Leif Andréasson had a rear tyre failure at speed on a 5.67/253 run which put him into no.2 position. The tyre caused body damage at the rear which the team will try to repair before eliminations tomorrow. The rules mandate an inner lining to the tyre which prevented a bad situation getting even worse.

Pro Mod racer Norbert Kuno also suffered problems when an exhaust manifold came off on the left bank. There was also distortion at the top of the windows caused by the air at speed.

Pro Mod racer and Eurodragster.com sponsor Graham Ellis had problems with the car not going into stage on the launch control. The result was three consecutive passes with no times recorded. He said "The transbrake works fine, but just about everything else doesn't." On the last pass he appeared to have found the problem and ran an easy-launching 6.58/230 for seventh.

Pro Mod racer Wayne Nicholson said "We are trying to use too much power and the car is not going straight. We keep taking bits out of it. It is tiring but still good fun." His best ET was 7.08 which put Wayne in 11th position.

Pro Mod racer Marcus Hilt appeared relatively pleased. He said "We used less clutch and drove through a lot of clutch dust on the last pass. But it got down the track and felt better..."

...then the team arrived and told Marcus it was his long awaited first six. Celebrations and hugs were the result.

Pro Mod racer Andy Wright opened his account with 6.56 but as the track warmed susequently, the car went into shake. He said "We need to put more power down and less energy off the start line."

Pro Mod racer David Vegter was also a sufferer of tyre shake as the track got hotter and needed more power to go down. He said "The engine is fine." David is qualified no.2 with 6.11.

Pro Mod racer Kev Slyfield is qualified no.14 with 7.34. He said "Only one chute came out so I was on the brake quick. It was going straight but smoked the tyre on launch and then went into shake. So we have backed the engine off."

Pro Mod racer Andy Frost had a problem when he went into third gear. "Something in the trans or engine broke mid-track, when I shifted into third it revved to the Moon - I got on the brake quick. We will have to look at what happened when I get back to the pits. We will try to repair as I am in the show, but we don't have the spare parts for the engine."

Pro Mod Racer Jean Dulamon, pictured with crew chief Benoit, is happy with the weekend, although he has been out of the sixes on all runs. "We kept the parts safe and that means an enjoyable event for us."

Pro Mod racer Bert-Ove Olofsson is running a special wheelie bar he devised, similar to the Top Methanol Funny Car item, and to great effect, running a 6.02, 6.06 and 6.03. He said "We are working on getting the car off the line quick and I thank Jim Salemi for help this weekend." Bert-Ove is qualified first.

Pro Mod racer Micke Gullqvist was only able to run 7.22. On his third pass he said "We had to pedal five times, so it's not great. It's hard to smile right now," he said, knowing the championship race may be tilting in Bruno Bader's favour with Bruno 46 points behind and running consistent 6.1s.

Pro Stock racer Conrad Stanley came to the far end at the same time as the combine harvesters were making a huge cloud of grain dust. Conrad was quick to place his jacket over the air scoop. He said "We had to take the car to Zane Llewellyn's workship when pistons turned up the wrong size and the supplier turned the corrected order round real quick. It was the seat of our pants but we made it, although an oil leak yesterday didn't help." Colin is putting his race cars and trailer up for sale. Team manager Trevor Graves said "When we have sold them we will go shopping."

Pro Stock racer Michael Malmgren is fifth in the championship standings and will move to fourth with Mats Jacobsson being forced to miss the event due to illness. A pair of 6.80s today made him fourth at the end of qualifying.

Pro Stock racer and championship leader Thomas Lindström ran alongside Jimmy Ålund in all four sessions and each run was like a race for the championship. Thomas said "I want to go no.1 and have put my best engine in." The result was a best pass of 6.664 in the third session which consolidated his no.1 position.

Pro Stock racer Jimmy Ålund got a new speed record of 208.09 and celebrated with his crew.

Pro Stock racer Ulf Wagenhester ran 6.94, 7.02, 7.09 and 6.87 for fifth place. The car is for sale and runs consistently straight.