{"id":8338,"date":"2017-02-01T10:26:26","date_gmt":"2017-02-01T09:26:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dragracingeurope.eu\/fiaedc\/?p=8338"},"modified":"2017-02-01T10:26:28","modified_gmt":"2017-02-01T09:26:28","slug":"anita-makela-goes-up-for-another-number-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dragracingeurope.eu\/fiaedc\/2017\/02\/01\/anita-makela-goes-up-for-another-number-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Anita M\u00e4kel\u00e4 goes up for another number 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dragracingeurope.eu\/fiaedc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/02\/makela_2016_champ.01.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8354\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dragracingeurope.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/makela_2016_champ.01.jpg\" alt=\"makela_2016_champ.01\" width=\"540\" height=\"282\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dragracingeurope.eu\/fiaedc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/02\/makela_2016_champ.01.jpg 540w, https:\/\/www.dragracingeurope.eu\/fiaedc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/02\/makela_2016_champ.01-300x157.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>After coming close several times, Anita M\u00e4kel\u00e4 clinched her second FIA European Top Fuel Championship title in the semi-finals of last season\u2019s European Finals at Santa Pod Raceway. This time, the Finnish fan favourite doesn\u2019t want to wait another few years for her next title, as her goals for 2017 are loud and clear, to keep hold of the #1 race number and the European record.<\/strong><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dragracingeurope.eu\/fiaedc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/02\/makela_2016_champ.02.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8353\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dragracingeurope.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/makela_2016_champ.02.jpg\" alt=\"makela_2016_champ.02\" width=\"540\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dragracingeurope.eu\/fiaedc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/02\/makela_2016_champ.02.jpg 540w, https:\/\/www.dragracingeurope.eu\/fiaedc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/02\/makela_2016_champ.02-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Anita M\u00e4kel\u00e4 made headlines for herself and drag racing with her 2016 FIA European Top Fuel title, her second nitro title after she won the TF championship for the first time in 2000. M\u00e4kel\u00e4 was highlighted in an FIA Women in Motorsport publication, was invited to the FIA Prize Giving gala in Vienna, Austria, honoured by the Finnish Motorsport Federation and nominated as the (Finnish) Super Star of 2016!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dragracingeurope.eu\/fiaedc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/02\/makela_2016_champ.03.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8352\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dragracingeurope.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/makela_2016_champ.03.jpg\" alt=\"makela_2016_champ.03\" width=\"540\" height=\"515\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dragracingeurope.eu\/fiaedc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/02\/makela_2016_champ.03.jpg 540w, https:\/\/www.dragracingeurope.eu\/fiaedc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/02\/makela_2016_champ.03-300x286.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s almost impossible for M\u00e4kel\u00e4 to highlight one run or one race of her 2016 season. \u201cEach run I win means a lot to me. However, it was a special day to share the podium with Birgitte Bremnes at Tierp Arena,\u201d she remembers. But now it\u2019s time to look ahead, as the 2016 title tastes for more. \u201cOur chassis is updated by LG Eriksson, as the chassis was getting too loose to drive at the top end. And we step up with AJPE Stage 7 heads. We need to improve our performance as we want to go faster than the others, keep the European record and the number 1 on our car! With all six FIA races, it\u2019s business as usual for us. We want to run low 3.8 seconds this season.\u201d And the main rivals? \u201cAll the Top Fuel combinations are capable of running fast. There is no piece of cake! It will be a tough battle again, but we will go for it.\u201d And that\u2019s exactly what the fans want to see!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dragracingeurope.eu\/fiaedc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/02\/makela_2016_champ.04.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8355\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dragracingeurope.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/makela_2016_champ.04.jpg\" alt=\"makela_2016_champ.04\" width=\"540\" height=\"340\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dragracingeurope.eu\/fiaedc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/02\/makela_2016_champ.04.jpg 540w, https:\/\/www.dragracingeurope.eu\/fiaedc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/02\/makela_2016_champ.04-300x189.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Has the champion ever thought of switching to another class? \u201cNo. If you want to run fast, and that\u2019s what I want to do, you can\u00b4t go faster than with a Top Fuel dragster.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After coming close several times, Anita M\u00e4kel\u00e4 clinched her second FIA European Top Fuel Championship title in the semi-finals of last season\u2019s European Finals at Santa Pod Raceway. This time, the Finnish fan favourite doesn\u2019t want to wait another few years for her next title, as her goals for 2017 are loud and clear, to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dragracingeurope.eu\/fiaedc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8338"}],"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=8338"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.dragracingeurope.eu\/fiaedc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8356,"href":"https:\/\/www.dragracingeurope.eu\/fiaedc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8338\/revisions\/8356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dragracingeurope.eu\/fiaedc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dragracingeurope.eu\/fiaedc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dragracingeurope.eu\/fiaedc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}