{"id":6808,"date":"2016-07-09T20:06:22","date_gmt":"2016-07-09T19:06:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dragracingeurope.eu\/fiaedc\/?p=6808"},"modified":"2016-07-09T20:06:25","modified_gmt":"2016-07-09T19:06:25","slug":"friday-leaders-stig-neergaard-michael-gullqvist-bengt-ljungdahl-and-johnny-oksa-hold-on-for-top-spots-at-alastaro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dragracingeurope.eu\/fiaedc\/2016\/07\/09\/friday-leaders-stig-neergaard-michael-gullqvist-bengt-ljungdahl-and-johnny-oksa-hold-on-for-top-spots-at-alastaro\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday leaders Stig Neergaard, Michael Gullqvist, Bengt Ljungdahl and Johnny Oksa hold on for top spots at Alastaro"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Stig Neergaard<\/p><\/div>\n

Friday leaders Stig Neergaard (Top Fuel), Michael Gullqvist (Pro Modified), Bengt Ljungdahl (Pro Stock) and Johnny Oksa (Top Methanol Funny Car) claimed the number one qualifying positions at the FHRA Nitro Nationals at Alastaro and will lead their classes into Sunday\u2019s eliminations at round three of the FIA European Drag Racing Championship.<\/strong> <\/p>\n

In Top Fuel, almost all drivers improved on their Friday performance, but in the end it was again Stig Neergaard from Denmark who claimed the number one qualifying position. Neergaard improved to 4.17 seconds at 423 km\/h (was 4.19 seconds).<\/p>\n

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

The Dane needed that elapsed time to stay in the number one position, as Friday\u2019s number two qualifier, Finnish ski jumping legend Janne Ahonen improved to 4.186 seconds. There was also a major improvement for Micke K\u00e5gered. The reigning FIA European champion recorded 4.28 seconds and is now in the number three position. Friday\u2019s number three, local hero Anita M\u00e4kel\u00e4 is fourth and will have to face countryman Timo Lehtim\u00e4ki in the first round. Number one qualifier Neergaard will have to face another local hero, Antti Horto.<\/p>\n

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Micke K\u00e5gered<\/p><\/div>\n

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

With his Friday best elapsed time of 6.059 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 stay in the number one position.<\/p>\n

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

Friday\u2019s number two, David Vegter improved to 6.08 seconds and will enter eliminations as the number two qualifier. There was a major improvement for Johan Lindberg, as the Swede stormed to 6.12 seconds and jumped from eleventh into the number three qualifying position. Bruno Bader and Thomas Stiefel, both from Switzerland are fourth and fifth and Friday\u2019s number three, \u01fake Persson dropped to sixth position.<\/p>\n

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Johan Lindberg<\/p><\/div>\n

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

With his Friday best elapsed time of 6.612 seconds, Bengt Ljungdahl claimed the number one qualifying position in Pro Stock. Favourite Jimmy \u01falund improved this best elapsed time with 0.001 sec., and stayed in the number two position.<\/p>\n

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

Richard Sundblom from Finland made a major improvement with 6.67 seconds and jumped into the number three position. Friday\u2019s number three, Thomas Lindstr\u00f6m dropped one position and is fourth.<\/p>\n

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Richard Sundblom<\/p><\/div>\n

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

In Top Methanol Funny Car Jonny Oksa impressed once again with a new personal best. The Finn stormed to 5.66 seconds at 407 km\/h and stayed in the lead.\u00a0 There was also a major improvement for Ari Pietil\u00e4. The Finn recorded 5.93 seconds and jumped into second position. Leif Andreasson is third but had to withdraw from eliminations after the Swede suffered engine damage on Friday.<\/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 10th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n

Qualifying results: http:\/\/www.fhra.fi\/keskustelu\/threads\/7-10-7-2016-fhra-em-osakilpailu-nitro-nationals.485\/<\/a> (scroll down the page to see the results)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Friday leaders Stig Neergaard (Top Fuel), Michael Gullqvist (Pro Modified), Bengt Ljungdahl (Pro Stock) and Johnny Oksa (Top Methanol Funny Car) claimed the number one qualifying positions at the FHRA Nitro Nationals at Alastaro and will lead their classes into Sunday\u2019s eliminations at round three of the FIA European Drag Racing Championship.<\/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\/6808"}],"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=6808"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.dragracingeurope.eu\/fiaedc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6861,"href":"https:\/\/www.dragracingeurope.eu\/fiaedc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6808\/revisions\/6861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dragracingeurope.eu\/fiaedc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dragracingeurope.eu\/fiaedc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dragracingeurope.eu\/fiaedc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}