2005 Power Nationals
Sunday (eliminations)
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17:15
Today's pictures have now been posted, you can view them via the Event Index.
That's the end of our coverage of the Power Nationals, thanks very much for tuning in.
Thanks very much for their help to Richard Warburton, Ozzy Ewing and all of the APIRA race and track officials; Janet and Wayne Schreier and Simon Day of Shakespeare County Raceway's timing crew; Lee and Emma Child; Simon Groves; track announcers John Price and Jerry Cookson; Tracey Cowen; Darren Prentice and Jon Cross; Roger Goring and Helen Rusling; Andy Barrack; Mark Pointer and Sharon; Kirstie Tramm; and Paul Venners.
Eurodragster.com's next Event Coverage will be from the Speedfreaks Ball at Santa Pod Raceway on 7th-8th May; our next Event Coverage from Shakespeare County Raceway will be from the Shakespeare Nationals on 18th-19th June.
This weekend's Event Coverage has been brought to you in association with American Car Imports.
15:50
We have now posted this morning's pit notes, which you can read by clicking here or by going back to the Event Index and clicking on your Browser's Refresh button.
Stay tuned for today's pictures.
15:50
The rain hasn't stopped so racing has been called off for the day.
Just before the event was called, the Wright Racing Top Fuel Dragster, which was in the pairing lanes, was taken back to the pits and fired up. Even here in Race Control, which must be at least a hundred yards from the Wright Racing pit, every "rump" of the throttle shook the building. Our colleagues from Bahrain were in the front row for the Top Fuel show, this was their first experience of Top Fuel and they reportedly jumped several feet in the air every time the throttle blipped. Our good friend Fahad Taqi tells us that he jumped but that some of the other guys (including the President of the Bahrain Drag Racing Club) "ran away"!
Stay tuned and we will bring you this morning's pit notes and today's pictures.
15:20
No sooner had the track crew cleaned up the oil from Jamie Sneddon's bike than it started to rain. Stay tuned and we will let you know as soon as we're ready to go again.
14:20
9.50 Bike eliminations round 2 winners: Andy Bird 10.520/91.33, Steve Coombs 9.547/138.25, Richard Sawatzki 9.721/130.01
Sportsman ET eliminations round 2 winners: Tanya Partridge (13.28) 13.492/103.65 bye, Nick Gay (13.10) 13.300/96.04
Super Street eliminations round 2 winners: John Grant 10.882/134.00 bye, Paul Marston 10.931/98.15, Bob Lees 10.999/121.73, Dave Cherrett 10.732/100.19 bye
Outlaw Anglia eliminations round 2 winners: Paul Hensher 8.570/166.08, Mark Pointer 8.342/159.81
Super Street Bike eliminations round 2 winners: Steve Venables 8.016/190.16 bye (Richard Stubbins no show), Jamie Sneddon 11.841/71.55 bye (Mark Fisher no show)
A new track speed record for Ven, well done Steve! There was a big cloud of smoke from Jamie Sneddon's Blackbird at 330 feet and the bike left oil on the track. We're on hold for clean-up.
14:00
Roger Goring followed the Top Fuel Bike final with a 6.668/180.04 run in the Firestorm Jet FC. Because of a crosswind at the top end Roger clicked off just after half track.
Pro ET eliminations round 3 winners: Phil Toppin (10.99) 11.085/116.67, Ron Bartlett (9.60) 9.610/140.17 bye, John Atkinson (9.18) 9.262/147.02
Junior Dragster eliminations round 3 winners: Scott Hauser (7.95) 8.000/83.83, Nick Mugridge (8.30) 8.452/74.50 bye, Jay Hauser (7.90) 8.007/72.46
VW Pro eliminations round 1 winners: Glynn Morgan (11.90) 12.073/110.41, Scott Cutler (12.99) 13.161/88.56, Neil Davies (12.40) 12.527/95.18, Steve Roberts (12.88) 13.193/115.38
Super Pro ET eliminations round 2 winners: Ian Tubb (7.54) 16.150/56.42 bye, Rick Cooke (8.90) 8.986/142.31, Martyn Jones (7.92) 8.085/167.38
13:40
Supertwin Fuel final: Steve Clutterbuck 8.840/129.54 def. Chris Stebbings 11.172/76.52
Top Fuel Bike final: Steve Carey 10.983/76.19 bye
Steve Woollatt broke yesterday so Steve Carey took the bye for the event win.
Trackside conditions when Steve ran were 12.4 C, 49% humidity, and 29.56 inches of air.
13:35
Funny Bike eliminations round 1 winners: Stu Chamberlain 7.621/180.94, Dave Holland 9.104/90.25 bye, Chris Hall 7.940/119.01
Chris Hall's engine unfortunately emptied itself across the track at the finish line. Chris is quite OK though.
VW Alternate Engine eliminations round 1 winners: Mat Finney (16.10) 16.225/85.77, Simon Williams (14.90) 15.226/86.41, Matt Attwood (13.98) 15.179/95.14
Spencer Tramm was in the pairing lanes but did not run in this round, from his body language he was not happy so I guess the Corrado broke.
Super Pro ET racer John Everitt asked us to say a big Thank You to his wife Lyn who worked the start line for him for the first time this morning. "Lyn did a great job", said John.
Super Comp eliminations round 1 winners: Chris Johnson 8.994/146.80, Malcolm Francis 8.934/154.92, Andy Williams and Paul Knight dobule Deep Stage Foule (both DQ)
12:20
Junior Dragster eliminations round 2 winners: Holly Mitchell (9.74) 9.617/70.53 bye (Kane Jones shut off), Nick Mugridge (8.27) 8.337/75.38, Scott Hauser (7.90) 8.039/82.57, Anna Stanley (14.15) 14.227/44.42 bye, Jay Hauser 7.973/76.40
Pro ET eliminations round 2 winners: Mike Lacey (10.36) 10.420/118.87, John Atkinson (9.22) 9.190/147.51, Lee Huxley (10.60) 10.826/114.25, Phil Toppin (10.99) 11.639/118.19 bye, Ron Bartlett (9.83) 9.905/129.42
Street Eliminator final: Colin Lazenby 9.048/180.03 bye
With Steve Pateman, Steve Nash and Jerry Charles broken, Colin took the bye for his second straight event win. Colin will be gutted to miss out on his chance to back up the huge 180.03 for a new speed record.
Supertwin Gas eliminations round 1 winners: Ric Naylor 10.469, Les Harris 10.152/133.69, Andy Smith 9.707/136.21 bye
Comp Bike eliminations round 1 winners: Andy Newcombe 15.428/84.58 bye (Gary Jones broke), TJ O'Brien 7.941/162.34
12:00
Junior Drag Bike eliminations round 1 winners: Harry Steadman (9.45) 9.624/64.38, Andy Irvine (11.90) 12.265/54.61, Dan Baldwin (11.75) 12.001/48.23
VW Sportsman eliminations round 1 winners: Richard Merriman (16.30) 16.844/72.54, Chris Bray (16.20) 16.213/87.28, Paul Day (17.10) 17.336/75.83
Super Modified eliminations round 1 winners: Kev Taylor 8.869/154.47 bye (Tim Garlick no show), Andy Kirk 8.012/170.35, Kev Perkins 7.631/176.74 bye
A very Happy Birthday to Andy Hone! Congratulations also to Kev Perkins who backed up yesterday's 7.586 for a new ET record.
Wild Bunch eliminations round 1 winners: Tony Smith (11.60) 11.720/106.07, Sarah Howells (9.50) 9.596/145.79, Mike Creswell (11.35) 11.434/115.37, Helen Smythe (12.90) 13.396/97.63
11:45
Super Street Bike eliminations round 1 winners: Jamie Sneddon 8.177/177.24, Richard Stubbins 8.214/178.82, Steve Venables 8.131/184.99, Mark Fisher 8.223/170.24
11:40
9.50 Bike eliminations round 1 winners: Steve Coombs 10.173/140.54, Andy Bird 9.842/121.65, Fred Furlong 9.512/137.22, Richard Hann 9.901/145.36, Martin Walker 9.819/147.30, Richard Sawatzki 9.600/141.93
Sportsman ET eliminations round 1 winners: Ian Petrie (18.00) 17.934/71.64, Tanya Partridge (13.28) 13.903/87.22, Nick Gay (13.10) 13.473/94.56
#1 qualifier Jon Turner was a no-show.
Super Street eliminations round 1 winners: Brian Huxley 10.897/99.76, John Grant 11.272/108.68, Simon Cooper 11.072/119.30 bye (Kev Slyfield no show), Nick Curtis 10.916/113.89, Paul Marston 11.404/106.90, Bob Lees 11.097/119.53, Dave Cherrett 10.739/104.40 bye
Outlaw Anglia eliminations round 1 winners: Paul Hensher 9.110/162.70, Ray Guy 9.738/139.62 bye (Aidan Kenny no show), Ian Norman 9.474/146.46, Mark Pointer 8.325/159.67 bye
Congratulations to Mark Pointer who has won the Eurodragster.com/Speedflow Perfect Light Award with a 0.000 Reaction Time in this round of eliminations. The Hooligan is now �50 better off. Congratulations also to OA new entrant Simon Barlow who has gained his licence with his pass this morning.
Super Gas eliminations round 1 winners: Martin Curbishley 10.161/146.26, Ron Bartlett 9.855/138.87, Spencer Tramm 10.072/109.23, Stuart Peck 9.939/144.27, Frank Mason 9.957/139.33 bye, Conrad Stanley 10.011/119.42
11:00
Good morning and welcome from Shakespeare County Raceway. It's eliminations day at the Power Nationals and we're here to bring you all the action in association with American Car Imports.
The Webster Race Engineering/MPM Oil webcam is on-line and broadcasting a picture every two minutes.
It's a very nice morning here, hardly a cloud in the sky and very mild. The weather station sensor has just gone outside so we'll bring you the readings shortly when it has settled down.
This morning's pit notes will be posted later on today on a separate page - we have started early here which means we haven't had time to finish them so stay tuned and they will be available later today.
The usual Raceday Good Morning to our US correspondents Ed O'Connell and Kathy Hileman who are tuned in from Rye, NH; hello also to Jeanette Webster and Sharon Hogarth who have dropped us a line to say Hi.
Here we go with eliminations, then!
Pro ET eliminations round 1 winners: Mike Lacey (10.49) 10.553/109.03, Lee Huxley (10.55) 10.926/103.30, Carl Burton (11.16) 11.300/119.50, Phil Toppin (10.99) 11.365/112.78, Joe Stevens (10.05) 10.096/120.61, Rick McCann (10.28) 10.487/121.60, John Atkinson (9.20) 9.259/147.20 bye, Ron Bartlett (9.80) 10.220/112.76, John Morris (10.80) 10.874/112.70
Junior Dragster eliminations round 1 winners: Scott Hauser (7.90) 7.928/83.49 bye, Kane Jones (7.90) 7.938/77.32, Dan Giles (14.35) 14.180/43.60, Collin Morrice (9.42) 9.328/71.32, Matt Seamarks (14.35) 14.019/46.63, Holly Mitchell (9.68) 9.791/69.66, Charlotte Watts (13.55) 13.346/47.77, Jay Hauser (7.90) 7.895/77.32, Nick Mugridge (8.30) 8.320/74.50
Super Pro ET eliminations round 1 winners: Ian Tubb (after re-run), Pat Talbot (7.93) 8.001/151.18, Martyn Jones (7.78) 7.926/170.44 bye, Ashley Bell (8.72) 8.776/138.66, Rick Cooke (8.90) 8.922/144.13 bye
Derek Flynn had a wild ride in the Gold RV dragster, the car getting way out of shape but a great driving job kept the car upright and in his lane.
Trackside conditions at the end of Super Pro ET were 10.6 C, 52% humidity and 29.68 inches of air.