{"id":30,"date":"2014-11-26T19:22:29","date_gmt":"2014-11-26T18:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.speedgroup.eu\/fia-cars\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T09:58:31","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T08:58:31","slug":"fia-championship","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.dragracingeurope.eu\/fiaedc\/fia-championship\/","title":{"rendered":"About the Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding: 15px;\">\n<div class=\"art-content-layout\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dragracingeurope.eu\/fiaedc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/12\/fia_dragracing_logo-300x2931.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2517\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dragracingeurope.eu\/fiaedc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/12\/fia_dragracing_logo-300x2931-300x293.jpg\" alt=\"fia_dragracing_logo-300x293\" width=\"150\" height=\"147\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"art-content-layout\">The<strong> European Championship<\/strong> in Drag racing is run under FIA flag since 1996. The championship currently include four events in three countries; England &#8211; Santa Pod Raceway, Sweden, Tierp Arena, and Germany, HockenheimRing.<\/div>\n<div class=\"art-content-layout\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<div class=\"art-content-layout\">Four competition classes run in the championship: Top Fuel Dragster, Top Methanol Dragster and Top Methanol Funny Car, Pro Modified and Pro Stock Car.<\/div>\n<div class=\"art-content-layout\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<div class=\"art-content-layout\"><strong>Drivers from more than 10\u00a0countries compete<\/strong> and the championship season traditionally starts with the Main Event at Santa Pod in May and end with the European Finals at the same track in early September. Drag Racing Europe (DRE) is the promoter and administrator of the FIA European Drag Racing Championship\u00a0<\/div>\n<div class=\"art-content-layout\">\n<p>News from the championship events can be found at this website and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/FIAdragracingchampionship?ref=ts&amp;fref=ts\">FIA European Drag Racing Championship<\/a> on Facebook. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eurodragster.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Eurodragster.com<\/a> a prime news provider in European Drag Racing also report from the championship events.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"art-content-layout\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<div class=\"art-content-layout\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dragracingeurope.eu\/fiaedc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/12\/FIA_00_Logo_RGB_r.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2705\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dragracingeurope.eu\/fiaedc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/12\/FIA_00_Logo_RGB_r-300x240.jpg\" alt=\"FIA_00_Logo_RGB_r\" width=\"150\" height=\"120\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dragracingeurope.eu\/fiaedc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/12\/FIA_00_Logo_RGB_r-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.dragracingeurope.eu\/fiaedc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/12\/FIA_00_Logo_RGB_r-1024x819.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.dragracingeurope.eu\/fiaedc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/12\/FIA_00_Logo_RGB_r.jpg 1181w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"art-content-layout\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>FIA &#8211; The F\u00e9d\u00e9ration Internationale de l&#8217;Automobile\u00a0<\/strong> administers the championship sporting- and technical regulations for the European Drag Racing Championship. FIA is the governing body for world motorsport. It brings together 228 national motoring and sporting organisations from 132 countries.website: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fia.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.fia.com<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h4>Please, visit the new homepage for latest news: <a href=\"https:\/\/dragracingeurope.org\/\">FIA European Drag Racing Championship<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dragracingeurope.eu\/fiaedc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/01\/FIM_Logo_Europe_RGB_Color.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"486\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dragracingeurope.eu\/fiaedc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/01\/FIM_Logo_Europe_RGB_Color.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19336\" style=\"width:176px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dragracingeurope.eu\/fiaedc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/01\/FIM_Logo_Europe_RGB_Color.png 1000w, https:\/\/www.dragracingeurope.eu\/fiaedc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/01\/FIM_Logo_Europe_RGB_Color-300x146.png 300w, https:\/\/www.dragracingeurope.eu\/fiaedc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/01\/FIM_Logo_Europe_RGB_Color-768x373.png 768w, https:\/\/www.dragracingeurope.eu\/fiaedc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/01\/FIM_Logo_Europe_RGB_Color-24x12.png 24w, https:\/\/www.dragracingeurope.eu\/fiaedc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/01\/FIM_Logo_Europe_RGB_Color-36x17.png 36w, https:\/\/www.dragracingeurope.eu\/fiaedc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/01\/FIM_Logo_Europe_RGB_Color-48x23.png 48w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Please visit the new homepage for FIM-E at<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fime-dre.com\/\"><strong>FIM-Europe Motorcycle Drag Racing Championship<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>FIM-E &#8211; F\u00e9d\u00e9ration Internationale de Motocyclisme Europe<\/strong> <br>The aims of the FIM Europe are to develop and promote all forms of motorcycling in Europe as well as the co-operation and friendship between its members. Five competition classes run in the FIM-E championship: Pro Stock Bike, Top Fuel Bike, Super Twin Bike, Super Street Bike, Junior Bike (A class reserved for non-street legal two or four stroke motorcycles).<br><br>News from the championship events can be found at this website <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fim-europe.com\/drag-bike\/#1473085152566-47ae18f5-e1e7\">FIM-E webb<\/a> and updated news on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/fimeurope\">Facebook<\/a> . <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eurodragster.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Eurodragster.com<\/a> a prime news provider in European Drag Racing also report from the championship events.<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The European Championship in Drag racing is run under FIA flag since 1996. The championship currently include four events in three countries; England &#8211; Santa Pod Raceway, Sweden, Tierp Arena, and Germany, HockenheimRing. \u00a0 Four competition classes run in the championship: Top Fuel Dragster, Top Methanol Dragster and Top Methanol Funny Car, Pro Modified and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":6,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dragracingeurope.eu\/fiaedc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dragracingeurope.eu\/fiaedc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dragracingeurope.eu\/fiaedc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dragracingeurope.eu\/fiaedc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dragracingeurope.eu\/fiaedc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.dragracingeurope.eu\/fiaedc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19564,"href":"https:\/\/www.dragracingeurope.eu\/fiaedc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30\/revisions\/19564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dragracingeurope.eu\/fiaedc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}