Halfway point and Christiansen is still on top
Speedy’s Racing, the multiple FIM-E Super Twin championship winning team of Marcus Christiansen and father Claus, continue their undefeated reign in competition to head the season’s points chase. However, the competition is getting very tight and the Danish duo are far from complacent. Following on from the Summit Racing Equipment Internationals, we caught up with Marcus for his thoughts on the forthcoming challenges:
Continue readingAmerican Lifestyle team look for the right direction
To say the first half of the FIM-E season has been a frustrating one for the Belgium American Lifestyle Super Twin team would be something of an understatement. Struggles at the rained off Main Event were then followed a surprising DNQ in Sweden at the start of August when the bike refused to stay straight. However, team principal and rider Chris van Nimmen still sees the positives:
Continue readingTwo races in eight days, the exciting conclusion of the 2025 FIA European Drag Racing Championship
With back-to-back the NitrOlympX at the Rico Anthes Quartermile of the HockenheimRing, and the European Finals at Santa Pod Raceway, the FIA European Drag Racing Championship will be decided in a timeframe of one week. Susanne Callin (Top Fuel), Tina Høst Nedregård (Top Methanol), Robin Norén (Pro Stock) and Jere Rantaniemi (Pro Modified) are the current leaders, but with two races to go and so many points to be awarded, anything can still happen. One thing is for sure, the championship standings are so close, that the final decisions will be made in England at the last race of the season.
Continue readingGustafsson skips the NitrOlympX, takes aims for the crown
For many looking on from the outside, this year has been of plain sailing for Rikard Gustafsson and the Indian Motorcycles/RG Engineering Puma Top Fuel Bike. Low qualifiers, event wins and consistently quick runs making the team one of the standout performers on a global level. Following on from a winning effort at Tierp Arena at the start of August, Gustafsson offered his reflections on what has happened to date as well as a look forward.
Continue readingMarck Harteveld runner-up at Tierp Arena
Marck Harteveld claimed the runner-up position at the Summit Racing Equipment Internationals at Tierp Arena, Sweden, round two of the FIA European Drag Racing Championship. The Voodoo Hemi Racing driver, who finished seventh in qualifying, won his elimination rounds, reset his personal best to 5.852 seconds and advanced to the final. However, in a close final Harteveld lost to reigning FIA European Pro Modified champion Jere Rantaniemi. Harteveld is now in second position in the FIA European Championship, only one point short of the Finnish reigning champion. With two races to go, anything is still possible for Harteveld and his team Voodoo Hemi Racing.
Continue readingTina Høst Nedregård back on track
To say that Tina Høst Nedregård’s last week has been a rollercoaster, is even an understatement. The Jedborn Motorsport driver won the Summit Racing Equipment Internationals to take the lead in the FIA European Top Methanol Championship, to see her dreams collapse a few seconds later when the parachutes of her dragster failed to deploy and she ended in the Tierp Arena sand trap with a destroyed car. End of the season and championship dreams gone. But the drag racing family once again proved to be the best in the world as a text message from Dave Wilson turned the world around again.
Continue readingA mixed Summit attempt for Team Brothers
The Swedish summer usually means sun, long days and plenty of fika, this wasn’t quite the experience of Team Brothers at the recent Summit Equipment Internationals at Tierp Arena just north of Stockholm. The trip didn’t get off to the best of notes with Margot and Stefan Schmidt (FIM-E Super Street Bike) stranded on the roadside with a wounded transporter. Once they arrived at the track and met up with team mate Eric Richard (FIM-E Top Fuel Bike) things didn’t progress as planned. Catching up with Margot after the meeting:
Continue readingLight Speed make mid-season moves
Bertrand Maurice and the French Light Speed FIM-E Pro Stock Bike team left Sweden in fine fettle having picked up the event win, a new personal best and the points lead with two events on the calendar remaining.
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