{"id":4917,"date":"2018-04-04T16:50:54","date_gmt":"2018-04-04T15:50:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dragracingeurope.eu\/edrs\/2018\/04\/04\/what-a-weekend-an-impressive-number-of-visitors-with-a-huge-interest-in-our-sport\/"},"modified":"2018-04-04T19:45:03","modified_gmt":"2018-04-04T18:45:03","slug":"what-a-weekend-an-impressive-number-of-visitors-with-a-huge-interest-in-our-sport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dragracingeurope.eu\/edrs\/2018\/04\/04\/what-a-weekend-an-impressive-number-of-visitors-with-a-huge-interest-in-our-sport\/","title":{"rendered":"What a weekend! An impressive number of visitors with a huge interest in our sport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dragracingeurope.eu\/edrs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/04\/LMP6777_Speedgroup-montern_LP540.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4941\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dragracingeurope.eu\/edrs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/04\/LMP6777_Speedgroup-montern_LP540.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"170\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dragracingeurope.eu\/edrs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/04\/LMP6777_Speedgroup-montern_LP540.jpg 540w, https:\/\/www.dragracingeurope.eu\/edrs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/04\/LMP6777_Speedgroup-montern_LP540-300x94.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dragracingeurope.eu\/edrs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2016\/04\/DSC0002_Pumpar_LP540.jpg\"><br \/>\n<\/a>With all of 83 812 visitors, to be exact, this year&#8217;s Bilsport Performance &amp; Custom Motor Show in J\u00f6nk\u00f6ping turned out to be the second largest event as regards to the number of visitors during the 48 years it has been going on. Speedgroup was of course on site to attract more participants and larger crowds to our sport, and we managed it well.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dragracingeurope.eu\/edrs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/04\/LMP6613_Speedgroup-Elmia_Lp540.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4935\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dragracingeurope.eu\/edrs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/04\/LMP6613_Speedgroup-Elmia_Lp540.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"354\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dragracingeurope.eu\/edrs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/04\/LMP6613_Speedgroup-Elmia_Lp540.jpg 540w, https:\/\/www.dragracingeurope.eu\/edrs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/04\/LMP6613_Speedgroup-Elmia_Lp540-300x197.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>Birgitta and Lana is packing bags to hand out to our visitors.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dragracingeurope.eu\/edrs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/04\/LMP6633_Elmia2018Lp540.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4934\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dragracingeurope.eu\/edrs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/04\/LMP6633_Elmia2018Lp540.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"526\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dragracingeurope.eu\/edrs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/04\/LMP6633_Elmia2018Lp540.jpg 540w, https:\/\/www.dragracingeurope.eu\/edrs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/04\/LMP6633_Elmia2018Lp540-300x292.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>Birgitta having fun with the bags.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Thousands of Summit EDRS Dragracing Series bags were packed with goodies and information that was distributed to visitors in the Speedgroup booth during the show. Among other things, there were Summit Racing&#8217;s special catalogues with great offers and other useful things for drag racing from Finnlines, Auto Verdi, Tierp Arena and city of Tierp.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dragracingeurope.eu\/edrs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/04\/LMP6611_Speedgroup-Elmia_Lp540.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4936\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dragracingeurope.eu\/edrs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/04\/LMP6611_Speedgroup-Elmia_Lp540.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"446\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dragracingeurope.eu\/edrs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/04\/LMP6611_Speedgroup-Elmia_Lp540.jpg 540w, https:\/\/www.dragracingeurope.eu\/edrs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/04\/LMP6611_Speedgroup-Elmia_Lp540-300x248.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dragracingeurope.eu\/edrs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/04\/LMP6610_Speedgroup-Elmia_Lp540.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4937\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dragracingeurope.eu\/edrs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/04\/LMP6610_Speedgroup-Elmia_Lp540.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"378\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dragracingeurope.eu\/edrs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/04\/LMP6610_Speedgroup-Elmia_Lp540.jpg 540w, https:\/\/www.dragracingeurope.eu\/edrs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/04\/LMP6610_Speedgroup-Elmia_Lp540-300x210.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>Busy time in Speedgroup booth.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>We had a Junior Dragster and a Junior Drag Bike in place that children could try, and it was very popular indeed. Also present in our booth were Daniel Plakidis from VP Racing Fuel and Marko Granlund from Finnlines with some great deals for the upcoming racing season. In addition, we had a display of our contingency sponsor Auto Verdi&#8217;s oil pumps and rods that attracted a lot of attention. Tierp Arena and the city of Tierp were also part of our display.\u00a0As well as Stefan \u201cMyggan\u201d Jansson with his black and cool Super Pro ET Chevrolet Bel Air -57 and Nils Lagerl\u00f6f with his Super Street Bike which\u00a0they\u00b4ll be racing in the Summit Racing Super Series this summer.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dragracingeurope.eu\/edrs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/04\/LMP6768_Elmia2018Lp540.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4930\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dragracingeurope.eu\/edrs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/04\/LMP6768_Elmia2018Lp540.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"411\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dragracingeurope.eu\/edrs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/04\/LMP6768_Elmia2018Lp540.jpg 540w, https:\/\/www.dragracingeurope.eu\/edrs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/04\/LMP6768_Elmia2018Lp540-300x228.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>Marko\u00a0Gr\u00f6nfors from Finnlines had good offers for the season.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dragracingeurope.eu\/edrs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/04\/Daniel-Plakidis-VP_BB540.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4918\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dragracingeurope.eu\/edrs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/04\/Daniel-Plakidis-VP_BB540.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dragracingeurope.eu\/edrs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/04\/Daniel-Plakidis-VP_BB540.jpg 540w, https:\/\/www.dragracingeurope.eu\/edrs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/04\/Daniel-Plakidis-VP_BB540-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>Daniel Plakidis representing VP Racing Fuel in the booth.\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dragracingeurope.eu\/edrs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2016\/04\/DSC0002_Pumpar_LP540.jpg\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dragracingeurope.eu\/edrs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/04\/LMP6785AutoVerdi_LP540.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4946\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dragracingeurope.eu\/edrs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/04\/LMP6785AutoVerdi_LP540.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"324\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dragracingeurope.eu\/edrs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/04\/LMP6785AutoVerdi_LP540.jpg 540w, https:\/\/www.dragracingeurope.eu\/edrs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/04\/LMP6785AutoVerdi_LP540-300x180.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>Auto Verdi on display in Speedgroup booth.<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dragracingeurope.eu\/edrs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/04\/LMP6498_Tierp_LP540-1.jpg\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dragracingeurope.eu\/edrs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/04\/LMP6782_Tierp_LP540.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4927\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dragracingeurope.eu\/edrs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/04\/LMP6782_Tierp_LP540.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"361\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dragracingeurope.eu\/edrs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/04\/LMP6782_Tierp_LP540.jpg 540w, https:\/\/www.dragracingeurope.eu\/edrs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/04\/LMP6782_Tierp_LP540-300x201.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>Birgitta and Lana in the booth. Tierp Arena and City of Tierp also on display.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">It was in all a very enjoyable weekend with an incredible variety of interesting, odd and amazingly beautiful creations on show. We met a lot of drag racing friends during the weekend and among them were Lars Inge Johansson with his very special Pro Custom Chevelle 66, Pelle Eriksson from Wulcan Racing, Andreas Sj\u00f6din with his Top Dooslammer Chevelle, the crew from Sundsvall Raceways and many more.\u00a0 We&#8217;ll be going drag racing in just a few weeks from now, first out is V\u00e5rg\u00e5rda. Get ready!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dragracingeurope.eu\/edrs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/04\/LMP6771_Tierp_LP540.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4920\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dragracingeurope.eu\/edrs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/04\/LMP6771_Tierp_LP540.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"352\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dragracingeurope.eu\/edrs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/04\/LMP6771_Tierp_LP540.jpg 540w, https:\/\/www.dragracingeurope.eu\/edrs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/04\/LMP6771_Tierp_LP540-300x196.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>Popular activity for visitors. Get the best reaction on the tree.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dragracingeurope.eu\/edrs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/04\/LMP6499_Speedgroup-Elmia_Lp540.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4925\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dragracingeurope.eu\/edrs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/04\/LMP6499_Speedgroup-Elmia_Lp540.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"284\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dragracingeurope.eu\/edrs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/04\/LMP6499_Speedgroup-Elmia_Lp540.jpg 540w, https:\/\/www.dragracingeurope.eu\/edrs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/04\/LMP6499_Speedgroup-Elmia_Lp540-300x158.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>Stefan Jansson and Nils Lagerl\u00f6fs vehicles on display in the booth.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dragracingeurope.eu\/edrs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/04\/LMP6761_Speedgroup_LP540.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4931\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dragracingeurope.eu\/edrs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/04\/LMP6761_Speedgroup_LP540.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"611\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dragracingeurope.eu\/edrs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/04\/LMP6761_Speedgroup_LP540.jpg 540w, https:\/\/www.dragracingeurope.eu\/edrs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/04\/LMP6761_Speedgroup_LP540-265x300.jpg 265w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>Another popular activity for the children was testing the Junior Dragster and Junior Bike.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dragracingeurope.eu\/edrs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/04\/LMP6594_Speedgroup-ElmiaLp540.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4938\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dragracingeurope.eu\/edrs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/04\/LMP6594_Speedgroup-ElmiaLp540.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"377\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dragracingeurope.eu\/edrs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/04\/LMP6594_Speedgroup-ElmiaLp540.jpg 540w, https:\/\/www.dragracingeurope.eu\/edrs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/04\/LMP6594_Speedgroup-ElmiaLp540-300x209.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>We also found a few other dragracing people at the show. Among others we can mention Wulcan Racing who got their car back from US and\u00a0are this season\u00a0racing in Top Doorslamer. Team member Pelle Eriksson and doughter in the booth this day.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dragracingeurope.eu\/edrs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/04\/LMP6559_Speedgroup-ElmiaLp540.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4939\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dragracingeurope.eu\/edrs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/04\/LMP6559_Speedgroup-ElmiaLp540.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dragracingeurope.eu\/edrs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/04\/LMP6559_Speedgroup-ElmiaLp540.jpg 540w, https:\/\/www.dragracingeurope.eu\/edrs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/04\/LMP6559_Speedgroup-ElmiaLp540-300x188.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>Most of us know Lars-Inge Johansson, former Pro Modified racers. At this show he had his own made beautiful Chevelle Pro Custom 1966 on display. Amazing\u00a0work of art.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dragracingeurope.eu\/edrs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/04\/LMP6538_Speedgroup-ElmiaLp540.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4940\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dragracingeurope.eu\/edrs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/04\/LMP6538_Speedgroup-ElmiaLp540.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"364\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dragracingeurope.eu\/edrs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/04\/LMP6538_Speedgroup-ElmiaLp540.jpg 540w, https:\/\/www.dragracingeurope.eu\/edrs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/04\/LMP6538_Speedgroup-ElmiaLp540-300x202.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>In Sundsvall Raceways booth we found Andreas Sj\u00f6din, chairman in Top Doorslammer Assosiation, and girlfriend. He was informating about Summit Racing EDRS Series Top Doorslammer series. <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dragracingeurope.eu\/edrs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/04\/LMP6623_Elmia-2018_LP540.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4919\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dragracingeurope.eu\/edrs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/04\/LMP6623_Elmia-2018_LP540.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"384\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dragracingeurope.eu\/edrs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/04\/LMP6623_Elmia-2018_LP540.jpg 540w, https:\/\/www.dragracingeurope.eu\/edrs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/04\/LMP6623_Elmia-2018_LP540-300x213.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>Sundsavll Raceway also did invite a big rooster right on time for Easter. Can anyone guess who was hiding in that costume?\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With all of 83 812 visitors, to be exact, this year&#8217;s Bilsport Performance &amp; Custom Motor Show in J\u00f6nk\u00f6ping turned out to be the second largest event as regards to the number of visitors during the 48 years it has been going on. Speedgroup was of course on site to attract more participants and larger [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dragracingeurope.eu\/edrs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4917"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dragracingeurope.eu\/edrs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dragracingeurope.eu\/edrs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dragracingeurope.eu\/edrs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dragracingeurope.eu\/edrs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4917"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.dragracingeurope.eu\/edrs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4947,"href":"https:\/\/www.dragracingeurope.eu\/edrs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4917\/revisions\/4947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dragracingeurope.eu\/edrs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dragracingeurope.eu\/edrs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dragracingeurope.eu\/edrs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}