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21:10

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That's the end of our Power Nationals coverage, thank you very much for tuning in. Our next Event Coverage will be next week's pre-Easter Thunderball Peak Performance Day and Run What You Brung at Santa Pod Raceway.

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

15:45

The Race Director has just called the event here at Shakespeare County Raceway. We have had a few rain showers and time is running out to get the track dried and get racing again before the 17:00 curfew.

Sharkman will post today's pictures when he gets back to base so tune back this evening for those.

14:20

Junior Drag Bike eliminations round 1 winners: Tyler Clutterbuck (9.90) 10.405/65.69, Scott Collier (12.90) 12.929/47.47, Mike Rowe (13.30) 13.375/49.07

14:15

Super Gas eliminations round 1 winners: Brendan Clancy 10.077/112.39, Tim Adam 9.851/140.07 bye, Dave Catton 9.926/124.51, Frank Mason 10.138/121.90

14:10

Super Street Bike eliminations round 1 winners: Wayne Bradley 8.551/185.48, Nigel Barker 9.038/179.93, Jamie Sneddon 8.068/182.02, Steve Venables 8.531/183.64 bye

Track temperature at 200 feet was 22.2 C after Super Street Bike.

14:05

Super Modified eliminations round 1 winners: Kev Perkins 7.691/180.12 bye, Ian Marshall 8.812/154.23 bye, Andy Kirk 7.791/178.48

The driver-side door of the Ellis Racing Oldsmobile came off after Kev Perkins' burnout, Kev sat patiently whilst his crew re-mounted the door and then he put in his pass!

The Ellis Racing Olds is carrying RIP Terry on its back window in memory of Terry Gibbs; a large number of the Super Mod and Super Gas racers are carrying such tributes.

13:55

Roger Goring followed up Outlaw Anglia with a 6.635/185.97 in the Firestorm Jet Funny Car. Roger backed off just after half track after wiping out his best eighth-mile speed at 190.36.

Supertwin Street eliminations round 1 winners: Dave Jones 10.066/137.04 bye, Steve Ford 10.981/127.15, Neil Dickson 10.931/124.65

Supertwin Gas eliminations round 1 winners: Les Harris 9.897/135.97, Chris Stebbings 10.251/120.51, John Floyd 8.875/143.77 bye

Congratulations to John Floyd on an awesome eight-second pass!

13:45

Outlaw Anglia eliminations round 1 winners: Steve Wells 9.961/138.46, Paul Wright 12.166/83.44 bye, Ian Norman 9.482/131.90 bye

13:35

Super Comp eliminations round 1 winners: Jon Morton 9.025/137.32, Matt Gatland 10.137/119.53 bye, Andy Williams 10.910/100.39, Chris Johnson 8.905/134.02

Super Street eliminations round 1 winners: John Grant 10.921/132.85 bye, Simon Cooper 10.875/121.15, Dave Cherrett 10.803/98.52, Scott McCarthy 11.297/116.65

13:25

Track temperature at 200 feet is 19.2 C.

Real Steel Street Eliminator final:

Colin Lazenby 8.866/185.64 bye

Of the three cars qualified, only Colin Lazenby made it through the Cruise last night so he took the event win. There was a flash of flame from the left exhaust as the Chevy went through the finish line but word came back from the top end that all was well.

Top Fuel Bike final:

Steve Woollatt 6.676/213.22 def. Steve Carey 7.007/200.05

Steve W pulled a visible holeshot on Steve C. Straight hard passes from both racers, the straightest run I've seen Steve Carey make and his first 200 mph, well done to both Steves!

13:15

Junior Dragster eliminations round 1 winners: Milly Bond (8.90) 8.973/74.38, Ross Norris (8.92) 8.990/74.14, Jayne Kay (8.15) 8.077/83.33, Anna Stanley (9.06) 9.086/67.57, Nick Mugridge (7.90) 8.174/67.06, Tom Watts (8.95) 9.123/68.18

13:05

Super Pro ET eliminations round 1 winners: Nick Spence (8.18) 8.259/163.10 bye, Ian Tubb (7.56) 8.014/124.21, Pat Talbot (7.74) 7.813/163.20, Martyn Jones (7.74) 7.710/173.10

13:00

9.50 Bike eliminations round 1 winners: Fast Harry 9.751/137.29, Andy Bird 9.379/130.90, Fred Furlong 9.726/119.15, Geoff Connor 9.522/148.14, Richard Hann no time bye

12:55

Pro ET eliminations round 1 winners: Lee Huxley (10.38) 10.454/131.10 bye, Rick McCann (10.00) 10.029/118.39, Andy Chilton (9.00) 8.881/145.64, Joe Stevens (9.45) 9.709/141.39 bye, Kev Slyfield (11.50) 11.559/108.74, Tethys (10.77) 10.832/125.66 bye

Another huge personal best for Andy Chilton, well done Andy, although a big breakout he had already won as Paul Marston redlit.

12:40

The track temperature on the start line at the start of eliminations was 16.5 C.

VW Sportsman eliminations round 1 winners: Richard Merriman (16.20) 16.456/82.30, Graham Fairhead (15.20) 15.330/75.51, Simon Funnell (16.95) 16.942/81.46, Martin Ayton (14.70) 15.525/94.38, Paul Herbert (14.60) 14.468/92.10

Paul Venners tells us that Paul Cox and Paul Herbert both recorded Personal Bests in their match-up, well done guys!

10:15

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 news in association with American Car Imports.

The Webster Race Engineering/MPM Oil webcam is on line and broadcasting a picture every two minutes.

As you can see from the webcam it's a pleasant and sunny day outside, the breeze is blowing straight down the track which is unusual for SCR, it is usually cross-track. We had some rain earlier this morning but the sun is drying it off and the jet drier is doing the rest of the job.

The traditional raceday Hello to our US correspondents Ed O'Connell and Kathy Hileman who are tuned in from New Hampshire, and tuned in from Europe we know we have Lex Joon and Gerda Dijkstra and Gittli Koller, all of whom have been in touch to say Hi. Hope you are having a good day guys.

Hello also to Ulf Stadig who got in touch to ask if we could give the track temperature in Fahrenheit rather than Centigrade. When we're in Sweden, Ulf...

Martyn Jones asked us to say Hi to Steve and Pat Johnson, hope you are having a good day.

No pit notes to speak of this weekend as Simon is busy working on the timing crew but we have a couple of stories to share with you. First up is Super Pro ET racer John Everitt who told us that he was caught short on Friday night and so, it being the middle of the night, he used an empty fuel can for relief. This fuel can was subsequently used by his crew yesterday morning to top up the Fairy Liquid bottle of methanol and so the Alien altered was fired up on a mixture of methanol and...well, you get the picture.

Secondly, Funny Bike racer Dave Bailey told us that he learned a valuable lesson yesterday morning, which is that you cannot launch a Funny Bike in fifth gear. This rendered Dave a DNQ for today but he bounced back with a great 7.5-second pass in yesterday's Test and Tune session.

We will be holding the minute's silence for Terry Gibbs at 11:00. Please also remember Super Street racer Paul Spiers' son Sean, the anniversary of whose death it is today.

Eliminations start after the tribute to Terry, tune back then and we will bring you all the news.