Top Fuel Dragster
Anita updates chassis until season starts
FIA Champion of 2016 Anita Mäkelä and Tommi Haapanen made a visit to ME Racing Service in Borlange for a delivery of their top fuel dragster chassis.
Anita Mäkelä clinches the title in a semi-final Top Fuel thriller
Anita Mäkelä
For almost ten minutes Anita Mäkelä must have had the déjà vu feeling of losing the FIA European Top Fuel title in one of the last runs of the season. The Finnish championship leader was defeated in the semi-final by Duncan Micallef, and with a win over Micke Kågered in the second semi-final, Stig Neergaard would gain the 20 points he needed to clinch the 2016 FIA European Top Fuel title. But the Dane ran into problems, was defeated by the 2015 champion and so, to the big relief of the Finnish team, the 2016 FIA European Top Fuel title went to Mäkelä. Duncan Micallef made headlines with his stunning 3.89 second runs, and Kågered finished the season on a high with a European Finals win. Continue reading
Surprising Alastaro eliminations cut short by rain
Anita Mäkelä
After an interesting qualifying and surprising first round of eliminations, the Top Fuel semi-finals of the FHRA Nitro Nationals promised to be even more exiting. The reigning champion Micke Kågered was out of competition and the numbers one and two in the championship, Stig Neergaard and Anita Mäkelä, had to face each other for a place in the final. But mother nature had other ideas and a thunderstorm and rain showers brought an early end to the third round of the FIA European Drag Racing Championship at Alastaro, Finland. Continue reading
Anita Mäkelä defeats Birgitte Bremnes in first-ever all-female FIA Top Fuel final
Anita Mäkelä raced to victory at the Tierp Internationals in a historic race as it was the first-ever all-female Top Fuel final in the history of the FIA European Drag Racing Championship. Mäkelä defeated Birgitte Bremnes, and as the Finnish racer was the only driver to record 3.9-second runs at Tierp Arena, she deserved the win at the track where Mäkelä already made history last year with her European record runs. Continue reading
Stig Neergaard in command at The Main Event
Stig Neergaard and his winning team
Stig Neergaard has always had the speed, but at this year’s Main Event ‘the real Stig’ surprised with the combination of both speed and consistency at the moment he needed it. The Dane was low qualifier with 4.02 seconds and was the only Top Fuel driver to break the 4-second barrier at the season-opening race of the FIA European Championship at Santa Pod Raceway. So Neergaard deserved the win when he defeated reigning champion Micke Kågered in the final, to be the first leader in the 2016 FIA European Top Fuel Championship. Continue reading
Speedgroups contingency programs first delivery from Summit Racing Equipments
Summit Racing Equipment’s simple formula is “Give customers the parts they want at a fair price, deliver those parts fast, and back them with the best customer service on the planet.” Summit sponsors winner with $200 and runner-up with $100 in the car classes.
Stefan Gunnarsson sticks to Top Fuel
Sweden’s Stefan Gunnarsson is leaving his injected-nitro Top Methanol Dragster in the workshop for the foreseeable future. Tuner Peter Lantz said that running both a Top Fuel Dragster and a Top Methanol Dragster was a crazy idea and that this season’s goal is to get Stefan’s Top Fueler into the threes – the sooner the better. Continue reading
Don’t miss the 2016 Contingency Program
Contingency is the easiest possible way for the sponsoring suppliers to expose their brands in the EDRS, European Drag Racing Series. The Speedgroup contingency program supports brands and racers all the way.
