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19:00

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That's the end of our coverage of the Open Sports Nationals, thanks very much for tuning in. Our next event coverage will be photo reports and webcam from next weekend's pre-FIA European Finals testing at Santa Pod Raceway.

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

16:40

The track crew kicked in and started work to dry the track but then we had another heavy downpour so racing has been called off. So that's the end of the Open Sports Nationals, a real pity since it's been a great event.

Stay tuned as we are working on today's pictures, they will be available in an hour or two.

15:55

Outlaw Flat Four eliminations round 1 winners: Jim Smith 10.686/128.80...

We're on hold for rain, stay tuned.

15:45

VW Alternate Engine eliminations round 1 winners: Matt Attwood (12.28) 12.284/110.85, Ian Huggan (12.80) 12.969/107.89 bye, Ian Sewell (12.90) 12.758/100.91 bye

VW Pro eliminations round 1 winners: Glynn Morgan (12.85) 12.883/101.80, Neil Ellis (11.80) 14.005/86.69 bye

Junior Dragster eliminations round 2 winners: Charlotte Watts (11.85) 11.796/55.87, Nick Mugridge (7.90) 7.993/82.12, Dan Giles (8.55) 8.673/72.82, Anna Stanley (8.90) 8.94/70.64

15:35

Supertwin Gas eliminations round 1 winners: Jerry Collier 11.338/92.19 bye (Don Irvine no show), Chris Stebbings 9.919/135.93, John Floyd 9.044/140.72

Supertwin Fuel eliminations round 1 winners: Andy Smith 9.142/144.70 bye (Duncan Hocking broke), Wendy Clutterbuck 9.233/133.96 bye

15:30

Wild Bunch eliminations round 1 winners: Sarah Howells (9.22) 9.351/145.65, Helen Smythe (9.45) 9.549/138.64, Roy Wilding (11.29) 11.369/118.39, Ed Yates (9.25) 9.340/145.17 bye (Terry Clifford no show)

Super Comp eliminations round 1 winners: Tim Adam 8.942/146.46, Andy Williams 8.777/157.94

Outlaw Anglia eliminations round 1 winners: Simon Barlow 10.137/133.59, Richard Colby 9.408/142.99

Chris Kenny asked us to say a big Thank You to Simon Barlow for offering the use of the Orange Pop to complete his licencing passes after Chris' engine broke. Nice one Simon!

15:20

Pro ET eliminations round 2 winners: Ian Atkinson (10.85) 11.129/100.78, Charlie Chivers (10.48) 10.519/127.81, Rick McCann (9.98) 9.845/135.90, Gary Springford (9.30) 9.301/129.15, Phil Toppin (11.29) 11.322/120.11 after re-run

Super Street eliminations round 1 winners: Mike Bentley 11.006/141.03, Martin Sanger 11.099/103.55, Bob Lees 10.922/129.34, Martin Green 10.941/121.02, Simon Cooper 10.965/116.24 bye (Mark Watkins shut off), Leigh Morris 10.950/124.34 bye

15:00

Nostalgia Fuel Altered Association session 4 (left lane first):

Clayton Round 7.206/185.02, Frank Bennett shut off, Bob Glassup 10.750/173.22, Joe Bond 13.243/56.37, Dave Grabham 8.393/170.65 bye

Great paired burnouts from Clayton Round and Frank Bennett, Frank going to about 300 feet and rolling to a stop pas half track. Frank Bennett was shut off for a fluid leak before staging so Clayton took the bye and as we know and love he used up a lot of his lane on the way to the finish line. A spectacular pairing between Bob Glassup and Joe Bond, at the hit Joe's altered headed left and he crossed the centre line just ahead of 330 feet and slalomed around the reflector, in the other lane Bob's tyres blazed so much that the car hardly moved forward. Bob pedalled at about sixty feet and the tyres hooked up and he caught and overtook Joe who was idling down the track. Dave Grabham's altered also got a bit wayward in his bye but he calmly pedalled it and clocked his quickest run of the weekend.

Trackside conditions at the start of the NFAA were 19.7 C, 22% humidity and 29.68 inches of air.

14:45

Super Street Bike eliminations round 1 winners: Ade Lockley 9.707/168.22, Nick Moore 9.297/163.35 bye (Ivan Birch no show), Nigel Barker 8.382/179.16 bye (Wayne Bradley no show)

Funny Bike eliminations round 1 winners: Chris Hall 7.281/178.55, Tim Blakemore 7.169/200.71 bye, Dave Bailey 7.418.180.97, Neil Midgley 6.971/198.59

Congratulations to Tim Blakemore on the UK's first 200 mph Funny Bike! Tim went too fast to have the 200.71 backed up by yesterday's 195.81. That wasn't the end of it, though, as in the next-but-one pairing Neil Midgeley backed up his 199.89 of yesterday for another new record. Well done Midgo!

Comp Bike eliminations round 1 winners: Kev Charman 7.706/167.88 bye (Dave Peters broke), Roland Chaplain 8.565/145.47

14:35

VW Sportsman eliminations round 1 winners: Graeme Freeman (15.00) 15.374/73.20, Paul Herbert (14.68) 14.767/85.09, Mark Malone (18.10) 18.384/67.67, Dave Bridge (14.10) 14.337/85.27, Richard Merriman (16.40) 16.459/82.13

Super Gas eliminations round 1 winners: Mark White 9.951/109.51 bye, Jon Evans 9.936/145.85 bye (Martin Curbishley no show), Tethys 10.078/123.26, Brendan Clancy 10.168/99.18, Conrad Stanley 9.971/145.52, Tim Adam 9.944/142.47

14:25

Super Pro ET eliminations round 1 winners: Barry Giles (7.66) 7.731/160.15, Martyn Jones (7.84) 7.809/169.40, Ian Tubb (7.52) 7.817/137.92, Steve Neimantas 7.968/154.87, Sam Freeman (8.34) 8.341/157.56, Nick Spence (7.25) 8.122/166.73, Craig Owen (7.25) 7.213/187.28 bye (Paul Marston broke)

Pro Stock Bike final: Dave Beck 7.982/159.60 bye (Paul King no show)

9.50 Bike eliminations round 1 winners: Richard Sawatzki 9.584/129.90, Andy Bird 9.609/128.71, Dave Burfitt 9.570/147.11 bye (Martin Walker no show), Ed Smiley 9.579/136.99 bye (Paul Coombs no show), Andy Haley 9.683/120.44

Trackside conditions are 19.4 C, 22% humidity and 29.68 inches of air.

14:10

Real Steel Street Eliminator eliminations round 1 winners: Ray Tucker 9.420/167.03, Alex McIntosh 9.436/149.59, Ron Haslett 10.883/135.23 bye (Jerry Charles broke), Al Simms 9.311/153.70

14:00

Sportsman ET eliminations round 1 winners: John Parker (13.82) 14.056/96.50, Geoff Cowley (15.60) 15.687/90.81, Nick Gay (14.77) 14.727/83.38, Keith Crampton (15.78) 15.936/84.74, Harrison Brown (12.90) 13.445/77.07, Ian Petrie (16.94) 17.196/77.44 bye

Top Fuel Bike final:

Steve Carey 7.213/182.09 def. Ian Turburville 7.781/179.45

A great race, Turbo got the jump off the line and clocked a new PB, well done Turbo, Steve rode through some fishtailing and took the stripe by 0.286 seconds. Steve came up to see us a little earlier and he told us that he is getting used to the way the bike moves around, on this evidence he has a good handle on it.

13:50

Trackside conditions are 18.2 C, 24% humidity and 29.68 inches of air.

Junior Dragster eliminations round 1 winners: Vicky Molden (12.50) 12.863/50.51, Annalieze Gibb (13.01) 13.018/47.87, Becky Evans (8.09) 8.104/71.20, Dan Giles (8.55) 8.603/74.26, Nick Mugridge (7.90) 7.918/83.33, Anna Stanley (8.90) 8.922/69.88, Charlotte Watts (11.85) 11.883/55.56, Millie Bond (8.90) 8.958/72.12

Pro ET eliminations round 1 winners: Chris Newsam (10.85) 11.021/123.57 bye, Ian Atkinson (10.90) 10.915/111.42, Nigel Green (11.70) 11.930/108.61, Charlie Chivers (10.48) 10.499/128.36, Rick McCann (9.85) 10.087/136.33, Phil Toppin (11.29) 11.485/114.83, Lee Huxley (10.54) 10.585/127.03, John Atkinson (9.43) 9.714/116.16, Gary Springford (9.30) 9.314/139.25, Ron Bartlett (9.90) 9.996/130.79

We had two holds for rain during Pro ET.

10:35

Good morning and welcome from Shakespeare County Raceway for day three of the Open Sports Nationals. It's race day and we're here to bring you all the news in association with American Car Imports.

The Webster Race Engineering/MPM Oil webcam is on-line and is currently broadcasting a picture every sixty seconds.

Right now it is raining quite hard, this also happened about an hour ago and then the sun came out and dried the track in a moment so fingers crossed for a repeat. Weather conditions trackside are 18.5 C, 27% humidity and 29.68 inches of air.

The usual raceday Good Morning to our US correspondents Ed O'Connell and Kathy Hileman who are tuned in from New Hampshire. Hope that you're having a good day guys...oh hang on, it's not a Public Holiday over there is it (wicked smile).

Eliminations start with Junior Dragster; stay tuned and keep an eye on the webcam and as soon as the weather improves we'll be right back.