{"id":10072,"date":"2017-06-30T19:45:51","date_gmt":"2017-06-30T18:45:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dragracingeurope.eu\/fiaedc\/?p=10072"},"modified":"2017-06-30T19:45:51","modified_gmt":"2017-06-30T18:45:51","slug":"four-reigning-fia-european-champions-provisional-leaders-at-alastaro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dragracingeurope.eu\/fiaedc\/2017\/06\/30\/four-reigning-fia-european-champions-provisional-leaders-at-alastaro\/","title":{"rendered":"Four reigning FIA European champions provisional leaders at Alastaro"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Michael Gullqvist<\/p><\/div>\n

Four reigning FIA European champions are the leaders after the first day of qualifying for the FHRA Nitro Nationals, round three of the FIA European Drag Racing Championship at Alastaro, Finland. In Top Fuel Anita M\u00e4kel\u00e4 raced to the number one qualifying position. In Pro Modified Michael Gullqvist was quickest and leads the field with two more qualifying sessions to go. In Pro Stock 10-time FIA European champion Jimmy \u01falund is the number one qualifier, while in Top Methanol Jonny Lagg leads the field after day one. <\/strong><\/p>\n

Sunny weather at Alastaro, Finland, on the first day of qualifying for the FHRA Nitro Nationals, round three of the FIA European Drag Racing Championship. Unfortunately there were some oildowns during the day and that made it a long day for the drivers and their teams.<\/p>\n

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Anita M\u00e4kel\u00e4<\/p><\/div>\n

There was even more bad luck for the Top Fuel teams as the elapsed times of the first session had to be cancelled due to a problem with the timing system. On the only run that remained, Anita M\u00e4kel\u00e4 was quickest with 4.40 seconds, with ski jumping legend Janne Ahonen in second position (4.43 seconds) and Antti Horto third, making the top three all Finnish.<\/p>\n

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Janne Ahonen<\/p><\/div>\n

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Antti Horto<\/p><\/div>\n

Liam Jones is fourth and the first non-Finnish driver in the 8-car field.<\/p>\n

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Jimmy \u01falund<\/p><\/div>\n

In Pro Modified Michael Gullqvist from Sweden stormed to a stunning 5.90 seconds and is the leader after day one. On the same run in the other lane Jimmy \u01falund secured the second position with 6.007 seconds.<\/p>\n

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David Vegter<\/p><\/div>\n

On his second run David Vegter was quickest of all competitors with 6.04 seconds and jumped into the number three position. \u01fake Persson is fourth qualifier with 6.06 seconds and Bruno Bader fifth (6.17 seconds).<\/p>\n

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Jimmy \u01falund<\/p><\/div>\n

In Pro Stock, Jimmy \u01falund, the number two qualifier in Pro Mod, stormed into the lead with 6.59 seconds.<\/p>\n

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Stefan Ernryd<\/p><\/div>\n

Stefan Ernryd surprised again and is the number two qualifier with 6.66 seconds, while Michael Malmgren is third with 6.69 seconds.<\/p>\n

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Michael Malmgren<\/p><\/div>\n

Thomas Lindstr\u00f6m and Bengt Ljungdahl are only sixth and seventh qualifier and have some work to do tomorrow.<\/p>\n

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Jonny Lagg<\/p><\/div>\n

In Top Methanol Jonny Lagg is the number one qualifier with 5.506 seconds, but Timo and Dennis Habermann are in striking distance with 5.509 seconds and 5.51 seconds.<\/p>\n

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Timo Habermann<\/p><\/div>\n

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Dennis Habermann<\/p><\/div>\n

Ari Pietil\u00e4 is fourth qualifier and the first Funny Car in the field.<\/p>\n

Qualifying for the FHRA Nitro Nationals continues Saturday with another two runs.<\/p>\n

Qualifying results: https:\/\/www.fhra.fi\/keskustelu\/threads\/fhra-nitro-nationals-2017.695\/page-2<\/a><\/p>\n

(scroll down the page to see the results)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Four reigning FIA European champions are the leaders after the first day of qualifying for the FHRA Nitro Nationals, round three of the FIA European Drag Racing Championship at Alastaro, Finland. In Top Fuel Anita M\u00e4kel\u00e4 raced to the number one qualifying position. In Pro Modified Michael Gullqvist was quickest and leads the field with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dragracingeurope.eu\/fiaedc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10072"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dragracingeurope.eu\/fiaedc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dragracingeurope.eu\/fiaedc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dragracingeurope.eu\/fiaedc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dragracingeurope.eu\/fiaedc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10072"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.dragracingeurope.eu\/fiaedc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10114,"href":"https:\/\/www.dragracingeurope.eu\/fiaedc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10072\/revisions\/10114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dragracingeurope.eu\/fiaedc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dragracingeurope.eu\/fiaedc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dragracingeurope.eu\/fiaedc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}