Shakespeare County Raceway, 30th April-2nd May 2016
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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 18:45 Today's gallery has been uploaded and can be checked out via the Event Index. The gallery contains 115 pictures; if you do not see all 115 updated thumbnails when you load the gallery page then click on your Browser's Refresh button. Tomorrow's provisional running order has also now been posted and can be checked out via the Event Index. If you do not see the Monday running order link on the Event Index then click on your Browser's Refresh button. 16:45 Wild Bunch qualifying session 2 Dan Sharp into #2 and Darryl Howells up to #4 in the first pair. Big breakout for Alan Loten but a time on the board after problems this morning, improvement for Bob Hawkins but stayed in place. Identical ET to last run for Phil James, that's consistency for you.
That's qualifying done. Stay tuned as we will now go to work on today's gallery. 16:35 Outlaw Anglia qualifying session 2 In the first pair a big left step for Ginner's van at the hit, backed out of it about 150 feet out. In the other lane Steve Wells went within 0.005 of his previous best. Improvement for Dave Sidaway next pair moved him up one place. Game of centre line and other car chicken for Paul Hensher and Matt Cooper, both heading for the guardrail and towards each other at the same time. Both backed off to eleven-second passes.
16:30 Super Street Bike qualifying session 2 Nigel Barker into #1 in the first pair, Graham Balchin improved but stayed in place. Steve Venables took over #1 spot on the fourth decimal place with the last run of the session.
16:25 9.50 Bike qualifying session 2 Improvements for Jonathan Kasziba and Brett Cordelle but both stayed in place.
8.50 Bike qualifying session 2 Andy Haley up from #4 to #1. 0.001 improvement for Jay Roe but still broken out and at the bottom of the ladder. Improvement for Yannick Richard but stayed in place.
16:20 Super Pro ET qualifying session 2 Chris Parker's Crew Chief Dave Catton the latest for the £10 fine for waving at the webcam. Cheques to the Leukaemia and Lymphoma charity thank you Dave. We have lost Dave Russell (metal found in filter) and Roy Wilding for the weekend. Rick Cooke into #5 in the second pair. 0.009 RT for Ian Powell and up into #2 from #3 at that point. I see Jack Brewster but I don't see Jacqui, elsewhere I guess so a big Hello to you Jacqui. Brad Jackson up to #4, Jack #6 after that pair. Next pair and Eurodragster.com sponsor Pete Walters back into the top five at #5. 0.007 RT for Scott Hauser and up to #2 in the final pair. Top five after this session:
15:55 Topspeed Automotive Street Eliminator were at the far end of the pairing lanes but have just turned tail. There are spots of rain in the air but going back to the pits seems a bit drastic... I am guessing that they have elected to go out on the Cruise. When we know, you'll know. 15:50 Super Street qualifying session 2 Ian Brown and Leigh Morris swapped places but all three in the 10.9s now.
15:45 VW Pro qualifying session 2 Carl Goldsmith into #1 in the last pair. Top five after this session:
VW Sportsman qualifying session 2 Dave Lea into #1 from bottom place and 0.002 off the Eurodragster.com Perfect ET Award in support of NSPCC. Top five after this session:
15:37 Junior Drag Bike qualifying session 2 Improvement for Blade Dummer but stayed #6. Jordan Kenway into #1 in the last pair. Qualifying after this session:
15:35 Supertwin Gas qualifying session 2 Improvement for Alfie Udall but stayed #3.
15:30 ET Bike / NAST qualifying session 2 Wayne Bradley up to #5 first pair. Gary Hester up to #2 next pair. Mike Nelthorpe and Craig Boulton side by side to #2 and #4 respectively. Giselle Moor and Siobhan Moor in the bleach box but shut off for rain for half an hour or so. Top five after this session:
14:45 Sportsman ET qualifying session 2 Andy Dibley up to #2 in the first pair. Kirstie improved to consolidate her #1 spot, a tidy-looking repair on the roof of the Camaro after it parted company with its sun roof in Q1. Lots of smoke from Jemma Hale's car in the third pair, looked like tyre smoke. Next pair and Elaine Hancock took over #1. Alan Medley up to #3 next pair. Top five after this session:
14:40 Comp Bike qualifying session 2 #1 consolidation for Mark Hope with an improvement and Mick Winyard up to #2 at that point. Dave Thomas up to #5 in the third pair. Top five after this session:
14:35 Funny Bike qualifying session 2 A delay for spots of rain at the top end, which gave the start line crew more time to complete work on Lee Guy's oil which had seeped underneath the rubber in the left lane staging area. Dave Peters pushed back after having problems in his attempted burnout. Improvement for Jiri Lukes but stayed #3. Dave Buttery's motor cut out after the burnout but restarted, motor cut out again at the hit. Improvement for Allan Davies, consolidated his #1 spot. First outing of the weekend for Pete LeGros, motor hesitated and banged a couple of times in the first hundred feet, smoke too but then cleared and from about 100 feet it was a nice-looking and -sounding run. Phil Crossley next up, great run and we think a PB but good for #1 spot, well done Phil! Great run also for Eric Richard, front wheel up most of the way and yesterday's problems forgotten, up to #2
13:50 Super Comp qualifying session 2 Still running single lane. Improvement for Andy Williams in the first run but stayed #2 at that point. Similar story for Paul Hudson in the third run, improvement but stayed in place. Nice 0.008 RT for Paul Brown consolidates his #1 spot and 0.006 off the Eurodragster.com Perfect ET Award in support of NSPCC.
13:40 Lucas Oil Junior Dragster qualifying session 2 Single lane running whilst Lee Guy's leak was cleaned up. Holley Marshall up to #1 in the second run of the session. Reigning UK National Champion Lottie Bradford up to #1 at 0.002. Top five after this session:
13:20 Pro ET qualifying session 2 Yesterday's issue was that the timing system got it into its head that Pro ET qualifies on Reaction Times; although Your Reporter was at that point copying off the official printed timing sheets it was apparently my fault that the numbers were wrong. And people wonder why I get grumpy. James Forster into #4 in the third pair, Eurodragster.com sponsor Steve Hudson in at #5 next pair. Big move up the ladder for Geoff Cowley, up to #4 next pair. Slightly wayward run for Mark White next pair but stayed on the gas and still broke out. 9.473 breakout for Bob Molden on a 9.56 dial-in, crew again went nutso, a PB so well done Bob! Smoke again from Keith Herbert's Fury in the other lane, track checked and all OK. Colin Felstead up to #2 next pair. Lee Guy's Sierra pushed back after staging revealing a big puddle of fluid. Great 0.003 RT from Dave Cherrett as he took the bye. Ethan Lisle up to #2 with the penultimate run of the session. 0.009 RT by Dave Nicol and a 9.055 breakout on 9.13 dial-in, he'll be pleased with that, the new set-up coming together. Top five after this session:
13:10 Wild Bunch qualifying session 1 Big burnout for Bob Hawkins whose birthday it was yesterday, belated HB Bob. Planned half pass for Alan Loten but shut off before staging. A big Thank You to Andy Clifford who brought up some bottles of Diet Coke for Your Reporter.
13:00 Outlaw Anglia qualifying session 1 We had a hold for light rain after Super Street Bike. £10 fine for Colin Millar and team for waving at the webcam just before the restart, cheques payable to Leukaemia and Lymphoma thank you guys. Consternation around Scott Crookston's car, more properly Colin Millar's car, Colin rushing to open the door just before Scott pre-staged before being told to stand away by race officials. Then looked like a carb cough in stage for Scott just as Dave went up on the revs, Scott was pushed back whilst Dave took the bye. Great run for Cliff although some smoke in the shutdown area but the news in that pairing was a perfect straight run for Matt who has had more than his fair share of directional stability issues recently. Scott back for another go in the last pair. Nice run for Scott, all eyes on Paul who double stepped off the line and then the Pop started to fishtail, more and more serious before the moves got quite violent and Paul got off the gas.
12:00 Super Street Bike qualifying session 1
11:55 8.50 Bike qualifying session 1
11:50 9.50 Bike qualifying session 1 Brett Cordelle took a re-run after having to abort his pass alongside Stacey Reed.
11:30
Although Simon is photographing trackside he has still found time to pass on some pit notes courtesy of bike photo-journalist Steve Moxley, to whom many thanks: 2015 Funny Bike Champion Dave Peters has a new rear wheel with beadlock tyre fixing. He made a big burnout to bed a new tyre in but the launch was so ferocious, the bolts on the rear sprocket sheared. Dave then had to refit his old wheel and tyre. Fellow FB racer Dave Buttery who had a new ignition system at the SPR Easter meet, suffered breakage after his burnout. Funny Bike racer Allan Davies, riding one of Richard Gipp's machines, went into no.1 with a 7.79 after changing his engine to a larger 1500cc one, used briefly last year and with new carburettors and clutch for this season. Ex-pat Czech Jiri Lukes is back after taking a year off to rebuild the Kawasaki engine on his Otto Knebl-built Funny Bike with new heads. He made a checkout pass yesterday. Jiri's brother Jan is racing a Ford Escort Mk 1 in Sportsman ET with a 383cu in SBC and will look to move up to Pro ET in the future. John McLean Jnr is at SCR for the first time, running in Comp Bike. He has changed the fuel pump to aid his nitrous assisted Suzuki GSXR 1216cc engine. Fellow Comp racer Kev Osman has rebuilt the engine on his S&K Racing Hayabusa bike. Meanwhile Dave Bachelor has bought Phil Crossley's previous bike, Bopchop II, and had installed his own engine and transmission into it for 2016. 11:20 Courtesy of Simon Day of APIRA's Tech Crew, to whom big thanks, we now have a console of our own which will allow us to keep track of qualifying placings in real time rather than waiting for the paperwork. What you will see for ET / dial-in classes from now on is over / under dial-in immediately, with the ETs and speeds added shortly afterwards when we get the paperwork. 11:15 9.50 Bike qualifying session 1 Drama in the last pair as Stacey Reed wheelied and parted company with the bike about seventy feet out. Safety crews moved very quickly indeed. Stacey got herself up, but the medical team got her to lay back down again and put her on a stretcher to be checked out at the Medical Centre. The bike ended up about 500 feet out; Brett Cordelle who was in the other lane pulled to a halt next to Stacey's bike and checked that its motor had stopped, commendable rapidity of thought.
11:10 Topspeed Automotive Street Eliminator qualifying session 1
11:05 Super Pro ET qualifying session 1 A big Good Morning to Paul Marston Racing who had to withdraw the PT Bruiser, a real pity as we were very much looking forward to seeing the Bruiser out on track again. Don't know if it's true but what we heard was that the team put the Bruiser back together but, as is quite often the case with these things, they found a part left over still sitting on the workshop floor. That part being the motor. But like I say, I don't know if that is true. Great run by Chris Parker for #1 spot, +0.007 off the trailer and close to the Eurodragster.com Perfect ET Award in support of NSPCC. Burnout of the day so far by Billy Gane next pair, followed by a cracking 0.008 reaction, nice one Billy. Next pair and Roy Wilding had his hands full with the S&K Racing dragster, headed left and had to pedal, then headed left again when he hit it a second time. Top five after this session:
10:50 VW Pro qualifying session 1
VW Sportsman qualifying session 1 Great first competitive pass by recent Eurodragster.com News contributor Ryan McGrath, +0.078 put him into #1 at that point, just pipped in the last knockings by Ross Chisholm-Brown.
10:40 Junior Drag Bike qualifying session 1 Qualifying after this session:
Super Street qualifying session 1
10:25 ET Bike / NAST qualifying session 1 Joe Elliott +0.007 on dial-in, first today to come close to the Eurodragster.com Perfect ET Award in support of NSPCC. Top five after this session:
Supertwin Gas qualifying session 1
10:25 Sportsman ET qualifying session 1 0.003 RT by Ricky Hale in the first pair. Eurodragster.com / Bad Habit Racing Perfect Light Award sponsor Tig Napier's first Sportsman ET outing in Ruby the Cuda, one rear tyre smoking and the car took a step to the right about 200 feet out, Tig backed off. 0.002 RT for Andy Dibley in the other lane. Eurodragster.com staff member Kirstie into #1 next pair +0.036 but the sun roof left the car about 1000 feet out. Quick pause for piece collection, one suspects Kirstie will have the jigsaw board out when she gets back to the pits. Top five after this session:
10:15 Comp Bike qualifying session 1 Top five after this session:
09:45 Good morning and welcome from Shakespeare County Raceway for our coverage of the APIRA Springspeed Nationals brought to you in association with John Woolfe Racing. The Webster Race Engineering / Nimbus Motorsport webcam will be on-line broadcasting live video and commentary / ShakeySounds audio so long as the track is open. Thanks to Doyousee.me for the provision of streaming services. It's another very pleasant morning here at Shakespeare County Raceway, sun and high cloud and mild. The track is ready and the first classes are in the pairing lanes. The plan today is again for live race reports and a gallery at the end of the day. Yesterday's Comp Bike qualifying session has been annulled and we open with a re-staging this morning. A big Hello and hugs to Tanya Hardy who is in hospital with a badly damaged left wrist from yesterday's crash. Get well soon Tanya and we look forward to seeing you back at the track soon. Qualifying is due to commence at 10:00 so stay tuned and as soon as the wheels start to turn we'll bring you the news. As we are doing manual qualifying here with pen, paper and brain - no on-line link to the timing - we will be posting top fives. Reports and pictures ©Eurodragster.com |
We have heard from our colleague and Sportman ET #1 qualifier Kirstie who tells us that one piece is missing of the sun roof (right) which came off the 50 Shades of Green
Camaro at 1000 feet.