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Kings work hard at the Main Event
The FIM-E Junior Dragbike Cup can often seem a relaxed affair, but the opening round at Santa Pod’s Main Event was anything but for the Next Generation team with educational requirements providing some eight hour round trips to home in the early part of the event. Team patriarch Ollie King provided the following summary:
Continue readingTeething problems for American Lifestyle at the Main Event
The Belgian Super Twin team representing American Lifestyle had a problem plagued opener having made a lot of changes for the 2025 campaign to their Overkill thumper. Team principal and rider Chris van Nimmen gives the low down.
Continue readingQuick start for Light Speed Racing
Starting off their campaign to regain the FIM-E Pro Stock Bike crown, Bertrand Maurice and the Light Speed Suzuki team managed to pick up a series of positives from the truncated Main Event at Santa Pod recently.
Continue readingAutoart at The Main Event
Dennis Nilsson crossed the finish line on all of his four qualifying runs at The Main Event. De driver of the Autoart Top Fuel dragster was the leader after the first day of qualifying at Santa Pod and finished qualifying in third position. The opening round of the FIA European Drag Racing Championship finished for Nilsson in the semi-finals when he was defeated by home favourite Liam Jones. But even more important than the race result, was the fact that the Autoart team learned a lot. Co-crew chief Freddy Wendt tells the inside story of the team’s race weekend in England.
Continue readingMarck Harteveld to defend number one position FIA European Championship at Tierp
Marck Harteveld has added Tierp Arena to his programme and will therefore do the full FIA European Championship tour this season. After a sabbatical, the original plan of the Voodoo Hemi Racing driver was to only participate in the two FIA European Championship races at Santa Pod Raceway and the NitrOlympX at the Hockenheimring. Last weekend’s results made Harteveld change his mind.
Continue readingRain brings early end to The Main Event at Santa Pod Raceway
Rain brought an early end to the eliminations of The Main Event, round one of the 2025 FIA European Drag Racing Championship at Santa Pod Raceway. Top Methanol had completed their semi-finals and Pro Stock and Top Fuel were in the staging lanes for their semi-finals and final respectively, when it started to rain. After two hours waiting, it was still drizzling and with the forecast of rain in the next hour, the race director was left no other choice than to cancel the event. At that moment Pro Modified had completed two elimination rounds.
Continue readingRain defeats the FIM-E Dragbike fields at the Main Event
Almost inevitably, the rainmaking combination of a British Bank Holiday weekend and a drag racing event caused the early termination of eliminations day at Santa Pod Raceway’s Main Event. Delays due to on track incidents, periodic showers and a curious running order meant that all of the FIM-E classes were terminated before the semi-final stage when the final deluge rolled in.
Continue readingGustafsson, Christiansen, Mechaell and Maurice hold on to FIM-E top spots, while King bumps up at the Main Event
Another long day at Santa Pod for the second day of qualifying at the FIM-E Main Event with a deluge delaying the start, a stiff headwind and a bit too much spillage on the track pushing the final round of FIM-E qualifying back further and further. In some ways this helped as the wind slightly eased for the final qualifying session which saw improvements for a number in the fields.
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