{"id":14973,"date":"2019-01-17T11:57:27","date_gmt":"2019-01-17T10:57:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dragracingeurope.eu\/fiaedc\/?p=14973"},"modified":"2019-01-17T11:57:27","modified_gmt":"2019-01-17T10:57:27","slug":"two-circles-are-complete-for-stig-olsson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dragracingeurope.eu\/fiaedc\/2019\/01\/17\/two-circles-are-complete-for-stig-olsson\/","title":{"rendered":"Two circles are complete for Stig Olsson"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In 1976 Stig Olsson\u2019s drag racing career kicked off with a nitro car he bought from Krister Johansson. Now, 43 years later and after many seasons in non-nitro categories, Olsson is the proud owner of a nitro car again. And that\u2019s not the only circle that is complete for Olsson, as Johansson will assist Daniel Jedborn, who is also the driver of the StigO Motorsport A-Fueler, with tuning advice. \u201cWe bought the BSG Racing A-Fueler from Stefan Gunnarsson and after the licencing procedure we will field the car in the FIA European Top Methanol Championship,\u201d said Olsson.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cIt was a quick deal,\u201d said Stig Olsson about the purchase of the BSG Racing A-Fueler. Olsson and his team StigO Motorsport were headlined in an article on dragracingeurope.eu in November last year (click here<\/a>), as they were (and will be again in 2019) racing in the States. \u201cThe plan was to take a break after the Gatornationals in Gainesville and return to the States in the autumn. The summers in the States are far too hot for me, as I can\u2019t stand the heat. I have been crewing for several teams here in Europe, and I could have done that again this year, when this opportunity arose. But although I\u2019m retired, I\u2019m still very busy with my transmission business, so there is no time to prepare two cars, one in the States and one in Europe. Daniel Jedborn is a friend of mine for many years. We race the same type of car, a front engine Competition Eliminator dragster. Daniel is a great driver and he was very successful with several titles in the Summit Racing EDRS Competition Eliminator Series, while he also was Swedish champion in 2017 and runner up in 2018. I own the A-Fueler and Daniel and his team will prepare and service the car. It\u2019s a win-win situation for the both of us. I live in Str\u00f6mstad and Daniel in Skellefte\u00e5, 1,200 kilometers up north, 75 kilometers south of Pite\u00e5, so it\u2019s not possible for me to do so much work on the car. But I\u2019ll fly over a few times to help them with preparing the car. I\u2019ll be at the races, but I\u2019ll not have to do so much at the track,\u201d said Olsson, to continue: \u201cWe, Daniel and his team, will work close together with Jonny Lagg and Krister Johansson. They are a great team with a lot of experience and always a smile on their face. I\u2019m really looking forward to this new adventure and working with Jonny and Krister. Krister will also assist in tuning the car, as nitro is something completely different from what I have been doing in recent years. But that makes it even more special as that completes two circles. I started my racing career in 1976 with a nitro car I bought from Krister. Now I have a nitro car again and Krister will help us tuning it.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Before the start of the season the A-Fueler will be updated by Jedborn and his team. \u201cThere will be some minor changes. We\u2019ll first see how things work out before we do some more adjustments. Daniel will have to start with upgrading his licence. After that the plan is to enter the Scandinavian races of the FIA European Top Methanol Championship. Let\u2019s first see how that works out and then we will probably try to do more races next year. The last time the car went down the track was one and a half year ago when Robin Lantz, Peter\u2019s son, did some licencing passes. That went pretty well, so if we can carry on from where he left off, we will be happy.\u201d<\/p>\n

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In 1976 Stig Olsson\u2019s drag racing career kicked off with a nitro car he bought from Krister Johansson. Now, 43 years later and after many seasons in non-nitro categories, Olsson is the proud owner of a nitro car again. And that\u2019s not the only circle that is complete for Olsson, as Johansson will assist Daniel […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dragracingeurope.eu\/fiaedc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14973"}],"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=14973"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.dragracingeurope.eu\/fiaedc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14988,"href":"https:\/\/www.dragracingeurope.eu\/fiaedc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14973\/revisions\/14988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dragracingeurope.eu\/fiaedc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dragracingeurope.eu\/fiaedc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dragracingeurope.eu\/fiaedc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}