This coming weekend, Vegter Pro Mod Racing’s drag racing season will officially kick off with The Doorslammers at Santa Pod Raceway. One week later, it’s time for the first round of the FIA European Pro Modified Championship, in which David Vegter once again wants to score high. But in addition to the FIA European Championship, Vegter Pro Mod Racing will also compete in several rounds of the Motorsport UK Pro Modified Championship, which means that the Dutch top team have a busy season ahead.

After several years with all kinds of doorslammers, Lars Sjӧholm is ready for the next major step, Pro Modified. The 2024 Summit Racing EDRS Series Top Doorslammer champion found a new challenge in a well-known Chevrolet Camaro with a blower engine. Sjӧholm and his LSR Motorsport team will try to get familiar with the new combination in the EDRS Bilsport Pro Modified Series, to enter the FIA European Championship later this year.

In a few weeks, the 2025 drag racing season kicks off for Pro Dutch Racing. After their first season with the new Chevrolet Camaro ZL1, that went even better than expected for Michel Tooren and his team, the ambitions for 2025 are even higher. The main programme is once again the FIA European Pro Modified Championship, but Pro Dutch Racing will also compete in the Motorsport UK Pro Modified Championship. This makes it a busy season that kicks off in the Easter weekend from 18 to 20 April when the first round of the British title fight starts at Santa Pod Raceway with the Festival of Power.

Race Winning Brands Europe will also be a partner of Vegter Pro Mod Racing for the next two seasons. The partnership between the Nieuw-Vennep-based market leader in performance parts for cars and motorcycles and the leading team in the Pro Modified class of the FIA European Drag Racing Championship was so successful and both parties were so pleased, that an agreement was concluded for a period of two years with an option for the period after that. “We are proud to be representing Race Winning Brands Europe for the coming seasons and are looking forward to an even more intensive cooperation,” said David Vegter and Elin Lindegren, the driving forces behind Vegter Pro Mod Racing.

Although being one of the frontrunners all season long, there was not a single moment during the season that Jere Rantaniemi was leading the 2024 FIA European Pro Modified Championship. But at the most decisive and most important moment of the season, the semifinals of the European Finals, Rantaniemi was there. The Finn won his elimination round, took over the number one position in the points standings and claimed his first FIA European Pro Modified title. Timing is everything.

David Vegter finished the 2024 season with a more than excellent second position in the FIA ​​European Pro Modified Championship. With around twenty participants per race, participants from ten different countries and 36 drivers who scored points this year, Pro Modified is the most competitive and most international class of the FIA ​​European Drag Racing Championship. But still, there were mixed feelings for Vegter and his team Vegter Pro Mod Racing. In almost all races, the Dutchman was the quickest driver on the track, led the championship for a long time, but missed the title by a minimal margin because bad luck struck at the most decisive moment of the season.