Remco Scheelings
No changes in qualifying order at Tierp Internationals
Due to the heavy rain that started last night and until now still didn’t stop, and the bad forecast for the next few hours, the race director cancelled today’s qualifying for the Tierp Internationals, round two of the FIA European Drag Racing Championship. Eliminations will start at 9 AM tomorrow. As the weather for tomorrow looks good, it will be an action packed day.
Here the link to the eliminations ladders: http://www.dragracing.eu/results.asp
Urs Erbacher, Chris Polidano, Johnny Oksa, Mats Eriksson and Jimmy Alund provisional leaders at Tierp Internationals
Urs Erbacher
Urs Erbacher raced to the number one qualifying position in Top Fuel at the first day of qualifying for the Tierp Internationals, round two of the FIA European Drag Racing Championship. In Pro Modified Mats Eriksson jumped into the number one qualifying position in his second run of the day. With still two qualifying runs to go, Johnny Oksa (Top Methanol Funny Car), Chris Polidano (Top Methanol Dragster) and Jimmy Alund (Pro Stock) are the provisional leaders in their respective categories at Tierp Arena, Sweden. Continue reading
FIA European Drag Racing Championship continues at the state-of-the-art Tierp Arena facility
After a great start at The Main Event at Santa Pod Raceway, the teams of the FIA European Drag Racing Championship travel to Tierp Arena, the state-of-the-art drag race facility north of Stockholm. Can Stig Neergaard, Jonny Lagg, Bruno Bader and Jimmy Alund repeat their strong Santa Pod performances, or will the chasing group catch up with the provisional leaders? New competitors will start their European campaign in Sweden and with a healthy entry in almost all Pro classes, and the fact that Tierp Arena is almost a guarantee for European records, the Tierp Internationals (June 16-19) is a race everybody is looking forward to. Continue reading
Pro Stock review, The Main Event, Santa Pod Raceway
Jimmy Ålund
The 2016 Main Event escaped from the rain delays and bad weather associated with the season opener for the most part. A few hours were lost over the weekend for some very fine mistings of rain, but to all intents and purposes, the event ran without interruption from the weather gods. 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
Bruno Bader dominates Pro Modified field at The Main Event
Bruno Bader
From the very first moment, Bruno Bader was the man to beat in Pro Modified at The Main Event. But nobody could, and so, starting from the number one qualifying position, the Swiss racer reset his personal best in the final, to take the win in the low elapsed time of the weekend, and beat reigning FIA European Pro Modified champion Michael Gullqvist. An impressive performance from the quick and consistent Bader. Continue reading
Jonny Lagg in personal best to Main Event victory
Jonny Lagg
Jonny Lagg reset his personal best in the final to take the Main Event win in Top Methanol Dragster. Lagg started the final as the underdog against 2014 FIA European champion Chris Polidano, as the Maltese driver recorded a stunning 5.29 seconds in the semi-final. But when the moment arrived, Polidano’s motor caused problems and so Lagg had a bye run to the podium. Continue reading
Stig Neergaard, Bruno Bader, Jimmy Alund and Jonny Lagg win season-opening Main Event at Santa Pod Raceway
Stig Neergaard and Micke Kågered
Stig Neergaard from Denmark raced to victory by defeating reigning FIA European champion Micke Kågered in the Top Fuel final at Santa Pod Raceway. Bruno Bader from Switzerland also had to defeat a reining champion, Michael Gullqvist, to take the win in Pro Modified. Jimmy Alund recorded the quickest ever European Pro Stock ET to win the final and also beat the reigning champion, Thomas Lindström. Jonny Lagg was the winner in Top Methanol Dragster at The Main Event at Santa Pod Raceway, the season-opening race of the FIA European Drag Racing Championship. Continue reading
Saturday leaders Stig Neergaard, Chris Polidano, Bruno Bader and Jimmy Alund hold on for top spots at The Main Event at Santa Pod Raceway
Stig Neergaard
Saturday leaders Stig Neergaard (Top Fuel), Chris Polidano (Top Methanol Dragster), Bruno Bader (Pro Modified) and Jimmy Alund (Pro Stock) claimed number one qualifying positions at The Main Event at Santa Pod Raceway and will lead their classes into Monday’s eliminations at the opening round of the FIA European Drag Racing Championship. Continue reading
Stig Neergaard, Chris Polidano, Bruno Bader and Jimmy Alund provisional leaders at The Main Event at Santa Pod Raceway
Stig Neergaard
Stig Neergaard raced to the number one qualifying position in Top Fuel at the first day of qualifying for The Main Event, the first race of the FIA European Drag Racing Championship. In Pro Modified Bruno Bader leads in a new personal best of 5.94 seconds at 234 mph. In Pro Stock Jimmy Alund is the provisional leader and in Top Methanol Dragster 2014 champion Chris Polidano from Malta is the leader after day one. Continue reading
