{"id":10115,"date":"2017-07-01T20:13:53","date_gmt":"2017-07-01T19:13:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dragracingeurope.eu\/fiaedc\/?p=10115"},"modified":"2017-07-01T20:13:53","modified_gmt":"2017-07-01T19:13:53","slug":"stig-neergaard-michael-gullqvist-jimmy-alund-and-dennis-habermann-number-one-qualifiers-at-alastaro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dragracingeurope.eu\/fiaedc\/2017\/07\/01\/stig-neergaard-michael-gullqvist-jimmy-alund-and-dennis-habermann-number-one-qualifiers-at-alastaro\/","title":{"rendered":"Stig Neergaard, Michael Gullqvist, Jimmy \u00c5lund and Dennis Habermann number one qualifiers at Alastaro"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Stig Neergaard<\/p><\/div>\n

Friday Pro Modified and Pro Stock leaders Michael Gullqvist and Jimmy \u00c5lund couldn\u2019t improve on their earlier performance, but it was enough to remain in the lead of their classes. In Top Fuel and Top Methanol Stig Neergaard and Dennis Habermann were the new number one qualifiers after Saturday qualifying for the FHRA Nitro Nationals at Alastaro and will lead their respective categories into Sunday\u2019s eliminations at round three of the FIA European Drag Racing Championship.<\/strong><\/p>\n

It was not the best day of racing on Saturday at Alastaro, as again oildowns caused long delays and were the reason the final qualifying for Pro Stock had to be cancelled.<\/p>\n

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

In Top Fuel, Stig Neergaard stormed into the lead with a stunning 4.02-second run. Friday leader Anita M\u00e4kel\u00e4 improved to 4.21 seconds but dropped into second position, while Antti Horto improved to 4.30 seconds and will go into eliminations as the number three qualifier.<\/p>\n

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

Friday\u2019s number two qualifier Janne Ahonen couldn\u2019t improve on his earlier performance and dropped into fourth position. Championship leader Duncan Micallef is seventh qualifier and will have to face reigning champion M\u00e4kel\u00e4 in the first round of eliminations.<\/p>\n

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

With his Friday best elapsed time of 5.902 seconds, Michael Gullqvist from Sweden claimed the number one qualifying position in Pro Modified. The reigning FIA European champion couldn\u2019t improve on his Friday performance, but his elapsed time was enough to remain in the number one position.<\/p>\n

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Jimmy \u00c5lund<\/p><\/div>\n

Friday\u2019s number two, Jimmy \u00c5lund improved to 5.97 seconds, while Friday number three qualifier David Vegter improved to 6.02 seconds.<\/p>\n

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

With \u01fake Persson, the fourth position also remained unchanged, but H\u00e5kan Persson (6.10 seconds) is the new number five qualifier after four runs, with Bruno Bader in sixth position.<\/p>\n

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

With his Friday best elapsed time of 6.59 seconds, Jimmy \u01falund claimed the number one qualifying position in Pro Stock.<\/p>\n

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Bengt Ljungdahl<\/p><\/div>\n

Championship leader Bengt Ljungdahl improved to 6.61 seconds and jumped into the number two position, with Michael Malmgren third with 6.65 seconds. Friday number two, Stefan Ernryd couldn\u2019t improve on his earlier performance and dropped into fourth position, with Thomas Lindstr\u00f6m in fifth.<\/p>\n

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

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

In Top Methanol Dennis and Timo Habermann impressed again and stormed into the number one and two qualifying position with elapsed times of 5.37 and 5.39 seconds.<\/p>\n

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

There was also a major improvement for Ari Pietil\u00e4. The Finn recorded 5.75 seconds and jumped into the third position, while Friday leader Jonny Lagg dropped to fourth.<\/p>\n

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Ari Pietil\u00e4<\/p><\/div>\n

Eliminations for the FHRA Nitro Nationals at Alastaro will start tomorrow morning, July 2th.<\/p>\n

Qualifying results: https:\/\/www.fhra.fi\/keskustelu\/threads\/fhra-nitro-nationals-2017.695\/page-2<\/a>, (scroll down the page to see the results)<\/p>\n

For more photos, see: http:\/\/www.dragracingeurope.eu\/fiaedc\/photo-gallery-fhra-nitro-nationals-alastaro-2017-fia-classes\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Friday Pro Modified and Pro Stock leaders Michael Gullqvist and Jimmy \u00c5lund couldn\u2019t improve on their earlier performance, but it was enough to remain in the lead of their classes. In Top Fuel and Top Methanol Stig Neergaard and Dennis Habermann were the new number one qualifiers after Saturday qualifying for the FHRA Nitro Nationals […]<\/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\/10115"}],"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=10115"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.dragracingeurope.eu\/fiaedc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10193,"href":"https:\/\/www.dragracingeurope.eu\/fiaedc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10115\/revisions\/10193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dragracingeurope.eu\/fiaedc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dragracingeurope.eu\/fiaedc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dragracingeurope.eu\/fiaedc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}