Santa Pod Raceway, 7th-10th September 2017
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The latest updates are at the top of the page. Click on your Browser's Refresh key to be sure of seeing the latest news. Click here to go back to the event index 21:20 Simon has posted another set of pit notes, and we have posted today's gallery which contains 145 pictures courtesy of Julian, Kirstie and Diana. You can check out both via the Event Index page; if you do not see all 145 updated thumbnails when you load the Gallery page then click on your Browser's Refresh button. 19:15 Still raining, very wet track, even if the rain stopped now then we would not get it dried in time for the 21:00 curfew so race officials have called a halt for today. Tune back in a couple of hours for today's gallery and tomorrow's updated running order. 17:05 FIM Europe Super Street Bike Cup qualifying session 2 (left lane first) Graham Dance 7.6278/194.71 bye; Jemma Venables 7.6630/186.64, Erich Gruber 9.6984/112.77; Mark Hope 8.0084/178.53, Dave Thomas 8.2343/179.22; Rudi Zorzi 10.5360/116.12, Robert Nilsson 7.4384/195.45; Steve Mead 7.6054/183.62, Daniel Donat Lencses 7.5196/191.24; Clemens Walleit 8.6647/166.67, Mathias Bohlin 8.8139/180.65; Rick Stubbins 10.5896/106.79, Steve Venables 7.7615/193.76; Garry Bowe 7.6211/151.57, Graham Balchin 7.2103/198.82; Mogens Lund 17.5243/41.82, Franklyn Borg 6.9165/204.22 Huge cloud of smoke from Garry Bowe's motor about 1000 feet out. Track checked and tractor / sled called to the top end, clean-up ensued in the shutdown area. Franklyn does the first half of a European ET record with the quickest-ever SSB pass in Europe, well done Franklyn, Simon and team! Qualifying after this session:
16:35 FIM Europe Top Fuel Bike qualifying session 1 (left lane first) Eric Richard no time DQ, Allan Davies 7.2800/177.10; Lorcan Parnell shut off, Dale Leeks 7.8366/147.22 bye; Filippos Papafilippou 6.7047/209.04, Steve Woollatt 6.3449/210.93; Rikard Gustafsson 11.9655/65.18, Stu Crane 7.1746/171.12 Drama in the first pair as Eric's bike moved towards the left guardrail and then he parted company with it at about 1000 feet. The bike carried on without him for a short while. Eric slid to a halt and immediately sat up to show the safety crews, who were there in moments, that he was OK. It started to rain as safety crews were attending to Eric. Lorcan shut off after the burnout and was pushed back. Dale rode through shake and then had to feather the throttle as the bike went for the centre line, sounded as if the feather disrupted the gear chage routine. Arrow-straight runs for both Fil and Steve. Smoke fron the front of Rikard's motor then motor note shot up and something came off the bike about 100 feet out. Stu rode through shake with a great run off the trailer. Qualifying after this session:
13:50 FIM Europe Supertwin qualifying session 1 (left lane first) Neil Midgley 6.7611/164.25 bye; Bruno Salesse 10.0699/118.85, Gert-Jan Laseur 15.4490/82.43; Martijn de Haas 8.4646/167.92, Roman Sixta 7.1674/188.06; Great run for Midgo building on the 7.00 in testing on Tursday. 1.0805 to sixty, 4.1899/173.70 a the eighth really hauling then backed out at about 1000 feet. New PB on this bike, well done Neil, Cannon and team! Brunps' bike wanted to go left all the way and he had to feather the throttle to get it back. Gert-Jan's motor hesitated off the line, gave it a couple of goes but then gave it up and idled through. roman heading for the centre line all the way, staying with it and a quick look over his shoulder before the stripe after which he went across the centre line. Martijn with his own problems, the bike wanting to go left and almost touching the left guardrail. Qualifying after this session:
13:45 FIM Europe Pro Stock Bike qualifying session 2 (left lane first) Martin Newbury 7.4923/164.85, Robert Karlsson 7.3244/177.13; Maurice Bertrand 7.7273/168.54, Mark Smith 7.8825/158.51; Martin Bishop 7.4130/177.84, Serge Pinet 7.5095/163.68; Fredrik Fredlund shut off, Charly Abraham shut off; Fredrik Fredlund 7.0970/185.05, Charly Abraham 7.4121/167.91; Len Paget 7.7670/166.07, Alex Hope 7.3761/178.50 Brief hold for spots of rain after the Nostalgia FCs. Eurodragster.com sponsor Martin up on the revs a while before Robert went in then Robert left him for dead on the Tree not that it matters in qualifying. Mark rode out a fishtail in the second half. Bish taking up where he left off in testing on Thursday. Fredde and Charly shut off before staging for spots of rain. On the restart a great run for Fredde to consolidate his Championship claim. Big improvement for Len but still the bug puff of smoke at the hit. Alex building on Wednesday's testing. Qualifying after this session:
13:10 Nostalgia Funny Car session 2 (left lane first) Tony Betts shut off, Tim Garlick 6.1649/230.07 bye Tony shut off for a fluid leak just before staging. Tim took the bye, 1.0741 to sixty, slight move right, 4.0705/188.71 at the eighth. 13:05 Fuel Funny Car qualifying session 2 (left lane first) Gary Page broke, bye; Birgitte Bremnes 5.6660/129.42 bye, Terry Haddock shut off; Steve Ashdown 4.9945/166.67, Kevin Kent 14.445/65.80 Gary could not get reverse after the burnout and had to drive down to the emergency exit. Minor clean-up in Gary's lane. Terry's motor started and stoped twice, stayed lit for the third time of asking but then crew shaking their heads and Terry shut it off. 0.9269 to sixty for Birgitte, shake and a pedal, blackstriping towards the eighth and off the gas by then 3.8821/150.99. Nice 100-foot burnout by Steve then staged off the tracks, didn't hurt the launch though, 0.9345 to sixty, off and running. Kevin's tyres up in smoke at the hit, a yellow nitro cloud and off the gas by the Tree. Meanwhile a pedal for steve, 2.4702 to 330 feet, another pedal, 3.6827/192.05 at the eighth and one more touch of the throttle. Qualifying after this session:
12:50 FIA Top Fuel Dragster qualifying session 1 (left lane first) Maja Udtian 4.3361/289.38 bye; Jndia Erbacher 4.4221/197.98, Stefan Gunnarsson 7.9854/80.81; Micke Kågered 5.2817/177.13, Anita Mäkelä 4.2463/227.43; Stig Neergaard 6.1925/127.98, Liam Jones 14.4788/27.31; Duncan Micallef 4.5270/180.56, Antti Horto 4.0883/292.06 First competitive outing for Maja. 0.9686 to sixty with one cylinder out on the right, 2.4555 to 330 feet, 3.4880/248.02 at the eighth with the cylinder still out, on the gas all the way to the stripe. Sled called to the top end. Stay tuned for some special news about Jndia in the next session. 0.9223 to sixty for Jndia with a cylinder out, 0.8421 for Stefan then terrible shake, hourglass tyre mark at 80 feet then a pedal and another hourglass about 120 feet out, off it before 330 feet 2.8236. Jndia to 330 feet in 2.3232 with the cylinder still out towards the eighth 3.3302/236.33, looked from the car's body language that the blower belt broke but then a huge cloud of smoke and flames out of the right bank. The flames went away then came back and the smoke continued all the way down the shutdown area. Safety crews met Jndia as she stopped. Clean-up followed of a long trail in the shutdown area and then we had a short, light rain shower. On the restart Micke's back-up guy Mark looked to have a race with Micke during the burnout, standing on the start line then starting to run as Micke came past him. 0.8977 to sixty for Anita, drove through a little shake, 1.0798 to sixty for Micke, the car looking to struggle. Anita much better to 330 feet 2.3056 to Micke's 2.7818, off the gas before the eighth 4.0511/192.07, Anita to the eighth in 3.3018/255.70 then a flash and big puff of smoke from Anita's motor, off the gas and a chute out, possibly the safety device. Something camr off Liam's car in the burnout, spotter Bob chased tuner Laurie Bamford and gave to to him to inspect. 0.9015 to Stig, shake and a pedal, car moved left, long pedal. 0.8620 to sixty for Liam, shake and then blackstripe, safety device cut the motor and put a chute out. Stig gave it another go and then shut it off as the car made a move to the left. 4.5259/133.95 at the eighth, stabbed the throttle once more before the stripe. 0.8906 to sixty for Duncan, 0.8809 for Antti, shake for both, looked like a brief slap of the pedal for Antti. Duncan to 330 in 2.2766, Antti in 2.2719, Duncan off the gas before the eighth 3.3206/212.82. Antti to the the eighth in 3.3206/212.82, some haze from the back end of the car in the second half but three qualifying points. Qualifying after this session:
11:35 FIA Pro Stock qualifying session 1 (left lane first) Simon Gustafsson 6.8458/200.76 bye; Magnus Pettersson 6.7645/204.41, Robin Norén 6.7566/202.43; Michael Malmgren 16.6669/51.91, Thomas Lindström 6.7170/204.23; Bengt Ljungdahl 6.9243/160.74, Stefan Ernryd 6.6765/207.93 Strictly this is session 2 but the timing system reads Q1 so we'll go with that. Good baseline pass for Simon, 1.0257 to sixty, 4.3941/160.11 at the eighth, brief graunching sound on the last gear shift. Good pair of passes for Magnus and Robin. Magnus to sixty in 1.0152, Robin in a nice 0.9922 and the better eighth 4.3328/161.09 to Magnus' 4.3496/162.35. Instant hideous shake for Michael, shut it off. 0.9993 to sixty for Thomas, move right and left before the eighth 4.3159/163.44 and into #1. 0.9717 to sixty for Bengt, 1.0033 for Stefan driving through a little shake, Bengt with the better eighth 4.2442/164.71 but then shut it off and put the chute out in the traps. 4.2971/164.58 to the eighth for Stefan and on the gas all the way. Qualifying after this session:
11:25 Keep hitting Refresh! Simon has posted a set of pit notes which you can check out via the Event Index. FIA Pro Modified qualifying session 2 (left lane first) Mick Payne 7.0288/200.77 bye; Håkan Persson broke, Wayne Nicholson shut off; Micke Gullqvist 6.1564/196.42, Norbert Kuno 6.4619/203.30; Roger Johansson 7.4868/141.14, Jimmy Ålund 5.9786/236.09; Bert Englefield 6.7172/227.02, Kev Slyfield 12.8016/66.86; Jan Ericsson shut off, Marco Maurischat 6.1751/232.45 bye; Bobby Wallace 6.3201/218.22, Freddy Fagerström 6.2105/223.27; David Vegter 6.1001/235.20, Kim Kristiansen 6.1222/236.21; Michel Tooren 6.3188/230.42, Bruno Bader 6.2868/220.13; Marck Harteveld 6.1268/235.18, Andy Robinson 6.0769/236.15; Wayne Nicholson shut off, bye 1.1152 to sixty for Mick, car skated right, pedalled a couple of times and pulled it back, 4.5711/157.93 at the eighth. Håkan stopped about 800 feet out after his burnout but did not return. Wayne signalled to shut off before staging as Håkan was stranded so far down the track. Retrieval called. Repeat Champion Micke to sixty in 0.9732, Norbert in 1.0002 with shake, Micke looked to pedal once but the eighth in 3.9375/187.28 then shut it off before the stripe. Norbert's Avenger was heading left all the way, 4.1798/172.05 at the eighth, smoke in the second half and very close to the finish line reflectors. Roger to sixty in 1.0022, shake and the Mustang was heading right, a pedal. 0.9753 to sixty for Jimmy, 3.9113/188.58 to the eighth. Roger to the eighth in 4.4792/148.39 then off the gas. Bert rolled the beams going up on the revs triggering his clock. 179.90 at the eighth. Big shake and smoke for Kev, stayed with it but the Bird turned hard right past the Tree, hourglass tyre tracks. Jan shut off after leaving a trail of fluid in the burnout. Eurodragster.com sponsor Marco took the bye, 1.0101 to sixty, audible short shift and then at the top of seocnd gear brief shake which we could feel here in the office, 4.0452/182.75 at the eighth and up the ladder. Hold for clean-up in Jan's lane. On the restart a 330-foot burnout for Freddy, I suspect he used photog Stefan Boman as a marker since Stefan can hardly be missed. 1.0200 to sixty for Bobby, 1.0141 for Freddy, Freddy drove through shake. 4.1020/178.39 at the eighth for Bobby, Freddy visibly accelerating hard past the eighth 4.0277/181.00. 1.0472 to sixty for David with mild shake, 1.0777 for Kim, shake out to 100 feet. David visibly ahead at the eighth 4.0166/187.99 to Kim's 4.0625/189.33. 1.0390 to sixty for Michel with clear shake marks out to 100 feet or so, Bruno with shake past sixty 1.0181 but then visibly picked up, 4.0932/178.85 at the eighth to Michel's 4.1390/177.00. 0.9861 to sixty fo Marck with mild shake passing the Treem 1.0072 to sixty for Eurodragster.com sponsor Andy, not much sign of shake then a nice eighth 3.9820/186.22 to Marck's 4.0263/185.74. Wayne back for his bye but could not get reverse after the burnout. Shut off then pushed back. Eurodragster.com sponsor Jon Webster has withdrawn for the weekend, an issue with the spin-up time for the turbos on which he will work in time for the UK National Finals. Qualifying after this session:
10:35 FIA Top Methanol qualifying session 2 (left lane first) Jürgen Nagel 9.5749/93.13, Rod Harrison 5.6888/250.40; Sandro Bellio 12.7017/53.97, Jonny Lagg 5.4680/253.22; Timo Habermann 5.4340/259.63, Dennis Habermann 5.4462/263.56 Jürgen sat on the line and then looked to have problems launching, 1.4368 to sixty, on and off the gas then off it altogether before 330 feet. 0.9663 to sixty for Rod, a little shake past the Tree, 3.7183/196.85 to the eighth and a big improvement, stayed #5. Sandro to sixty in 0.9502 with bad shake passing the Tree, a pedal and got off it. 0.9575 to sixty for Jonny, blackstriped to the eighth 3.6438/218.63, looked to shut off a touch before the stripe as the car made a little move left and right. Timo to sixty in 0.8941 and Dennis in 0.9252 with shake, Dennis' carheaded left and he pedalled. Timo with the better eighth ET 3.5683/210.92 to Dennis' 3.5966/211.46, Dennis' car visibly accelerated harder in the second eighth, almost as if it jumped forward. Similarly to Micke Gullqvist yesterday we think that Timo now can't be caught in the 2017 FIA European Championship; we will check our maths when we get a moment but provisional congratulations to Timo on the title. Qualifying after this session:
10:25 Comp Eliminator qualifying session 6 Improvement for Eurodragster.com sponsor Chris Isaacs but stayed #8.
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FIA & FIM(E) European Finals 2017. Santa Pod Raceway. UK
TSI RACENET SYSTEM
QUALIFYING BY: ET - DialIn QUALIFYING LIST
09/09/2017 10:26:57 12 COMP ELIMINATOR
Place CarNum Driver R.T. E.T. O/U INDEX MPH
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1 801 ROBIN SATTLER + 0.0581 8.9324 -0.7076 09.64 142.01
2 829 RENE MEIERHOFER + 0.4482 8.4315 -0.5785 09.01 157.38
3 203 ANDY HONE + 0.4224 7.4203 -0.5697 07.99 182.12
4 55 ROB SMALLWORTH + 0.1487 7.5388 -0.4512 07.99 179.16
5 821 RENE EHRISMANN + 0.6116 7.4572 -0.3928 07.85 179.22
6 818 JENS ZIMMERMANN + 0.1932 7.4989 -0.3511 07.85 187.41
7 1 KEV PERKINS + 0.2215 7.6862 -0.3038 07.99 175.71
8 70 CHRIS ISAACS + 0.2968 6.9520 -0.0780 07.03 217.16
* = Disqualified
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Next up today's first Pro session. 10:20 Topspeed Automotive Street Eliminator qualifying session 6 Steve Pugh in the Last Chance Saloon, 13.50 or quicker to proceed to the Cruise. Steve had throttle cable issues holding him back on Thursday... and did not run in this session. Al Williamson pushed back after his burnout. Butch Wilkins took the bye, improvement but stayed #8. Improvement too for Rob Slater but stayed #5.
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FIA & FIM(E) European Finals 2017. Santa Pod Raceway. UK
TSI RACENET SYSTEM
QUALIFYING BY: ET Sports Ladder QUALIFYING LIST
09/09/2017 10:21:00 11 STREET ELIMINATOR
Place CarNum Driver R.T. E.T. O/U INDEX MPH
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1 65 MARK TODD + 0.0551 7.4303 7.4303 00.00 195.46
2 677 GARY GOODING + 1.4248 7.7532 7.7532 00.00 161.32
3 63 JOE STEVENS + 0.9878 8.2774 8.2774 00.00 167.91
4 333 ALAN WILLIAMSON + 0.5518 8.6193 8.6193 00.00 156.83
5 329 ROBERT SLATER + 0.3111 9.3934 9.3934 00.00 148.57
6 524 NICK HALE + 0.2357 9.8966 9.8966 00.00 134.91
7 57 GRAHAM SMITH + 0.6502 9.9618 9.9618 00.00 133.33
8 911 ANTHONY WILKINS + 0.2276 11.2376 11.2376 00.00 115.66
9 436 NIGEL HALE + 0.6595 11.4570 11.4570 00.00 109.37
10 321 RICHARD MERRIMAN + 0.0483 12.7772 12.7772 00.00 105.18
* = Disqualified
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10:10 Gearhead Garage UK Super Pro ET eliminations round 1 0.0031 RT for Ian Brown in his race with John Przybyl, broke out by 0.0058 but got his seven and the team very happy with that. Longest wheelie I have seen Nick Good pull in his dragster, easily 150 feet and very nicely controlled. Quick sled of the right lane after the race between Austin Jaques and Brian Pateman. Perfect 0.0008 RT for Johan Oomen in his race with Wouter van Leersum, well done Johan! Pel Normal +0.0097 on dial-in in his race with Gordon Northway. Big new PB breakout for Jack Brewster in his race with Brad Jackson. 0.0094 RT for Bob Doyle in his race with Lee Darby. Peter Lane +0.0099 on dial-in in his race with Martyn Jones. No show for Al Didwell for his race with Joe Kellett. Al Golding a no-show for his race with Barry Giles who pulled a 0.0095 RT. John Gerritsen with the Bel Air fixed after Thursday'a crash put in a checkout pass at the end of the session. 8.3263/111.93.
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FIA & FIM(E) European Finals 2017. Santa Pod Raceway. UK
TSI SYSTEM
ELIMINATION ROUND 1
09/09/2017 10:09:29 22 SUPER PRO ET
Results CarNum Driver R.T. E.T. O/U INDEX MPH
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66 IAN BROWN + 0.0031 7.9942 -0.0058 08.00 169.15
Win 640 JOHN PRZYBYL + 0.0348 7.5555 0.0155 07.54 176.35
793 DAVID EVANS + 0.1974 8.2082 0.0582 08.15 133.21
Win 984 THOMAS HAAS + 0.0625 8.2767 0.1267 08.15 161.88
Win 250 NICK GOOD + 0.1346 6.9760 0.1360 06.84 160.14
212 MICK HOWLING + 0.5082 8.4961 0.1161 08.38 153.65
Foul 4272 STEFAN JANSSON - 0.0365 8.4481 0.0181 08.43 157.90
Win 90 BILLY GANE + 0.0691 8.4166 0.0566 08.36 162.45
Foul 1 CHRIS PARKER - 0.0017 7.8127 0.0527 07.76 163.63
Win 4 IAN POWELL + 0.1155 8.0738 -0.0462 08.12 163.62
Win 896 AUSTIN JAQUES + 0.0586 8.4567 0.0167 08.44 160.15
68 BRIAN PATEMAN + 0.0909 8.9177 0.0577 08.86 153.62
935 WOUTER VAN LEERSUM + 0.0358 7.3268 0.1668 07.16 190.57
Win 28 JOHAN OOMEN + 0.0008 6.8404 0.1004 06.74 198.74
Win 449 PEL NORMAN + 0.2508 7.7297 0.0097 07.72 173.05
723 GORDON NORTHWAY + 0.1841 8.6965 -0.0035 08.70 152.09
543 JACK BREWSTER + 0.5964 7.3369 -0.1131 07.45 187.41
Win 470 BRAD JACKSON + 0.1167 7.8644 0.1344 07.73 168.49
Win 3001 SCOTT HAUSER + 0.0552 7.6813 0.0413 07.64 161.88
6 TOM ATKINSON + 0.1413 8.9183 0.0483 08.87 150.58
315 BOB DOYLE + 0.0094 8.3879 -0.0321 08.42 153.62
Win 914 LEE DARBY + 0.4384 12.9436 4.8936 08.05 136.91
453 MARTYN JONES + 0.0490 6.1355 0.1355 06.00 189.80
Win 868 PETER LANE + 0.1217 8.6499 0.0099 08.64 154.72
Win 881 PETER WALTERS + 0.0801 7.6496 0.6896 06.96 125.14
Foul 474 ASHLEY BELL - 0.0320 9.6234 0.7734 08.85 141.68
166 ALAN DIDWELL . -6.0000 06.00 0.00
Win 10 JOE KELLETT + 0.0491 8.2721 0.0521 08.22 163.03
717 LAURA TURBURVILLE + 0.2877 7.8376 0.0176 07.82 166.03
Win 88 GUIDO UHLUR + 0.1151 7.8691 0.0891 07.78 160.15
245 AL GOLDING . -6.0000 06.00 0.00
Win 263 BARRY GILES + 0.0095 7.5708 0.0708 07.50 173.02
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07:40 Good morning and welcome from Santa Pod Raceway for our coverage of the FIA / FIM European Finals brought to you in association with John Woolfe Racing. The plan for today is for the usual real-time reports and results, Simon's pit notes updated throughout the day, and a photo gallery at the end of the day courtesy of Julian, Thaliah Gibb and Diana Macrae. No webcast from us today; the rest of the event is to be broadcast on the Trakbak Racing / Track Group Europe free High-Def, multi-camera Web TV which you can find at www.livestream.com/SantaPod/eurofinals2017. There is also a link on the Event Index. Our the Webster Race Engineering / Nimbus Motorsport webcam will be back at next weekend's NSRA Hot Rod Drags at Shakespeare County Raceway. Much better start this morning: blue sky and a few clouds, a gentle breeze up the track. A big Good Morning to all of the Eurodragsterholics, particularly Kai Plathan and Otto who are tuned in from Finland, and Ivar Kolberg tuned in from Norway, but to all of you a big Thank You for your support. Having finally had the time to do our sums we think that Micke Gullqvist indeed can't be caught for the 2017 FIA European Pro Modified Championship so congratulations to Micke on another title. We have enquired of Race Director Carole Ismail and we can confirm that the running order remains as published. Gearhead Garage UK Super Pro ET, Modurstang Pro ET, Al's Gasser Super Gas Shootout and Lucas Oil Junior Dragster are done with qualifying and will start their eliminations today, Super Pro ET will open the day. Pro sessions are due at 10:30 and 14:10. Stay tuned and once the wheels start to turn we'll bring you the news. Reports and pictures ©Eurodragster.com |