2009 FHRA Nitro Nationals
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The latest updates are at the top of the page. Click on your Browser's Refresh key to be sure of seeing the latest news. Click here to go back to the event index 01:00 We have now posted today's gallery. You can view it from the Event Index page. 21:30 At the drivers meet we understood that the morning will start at 10 with the sportsman classes that wasn't run today, Super Gas, Super Comp, Outlaw and Comp Eliminator. Then we will continue with the Pro Classes that didn't run today, Top Methanol Dragster, Top Methanol Funny Car and Top Fuel. After that we will get in to the 'normal' schedule, with 2 planned sessions for FIA and UEM 20:20 FIA qualifying after session 1 20:05 Top Fuel Dragster licencing L. Tommy Rostgaard is back after his incident at Main Event. He is continuing his licensing and put down a 0,97 60 foot and shut off (probably exactly what he had been told) And that is sadly all what was able to run today. The curfew is at 8oclock. We will try to sort pictures and do a gallery. As soon as we hear anything about the time schedule for tomorrow we will post it, of course! 20:00 Pro Stock qualifying session 1 R. Bo Pettersson in a Cavalier runs 7,47/262 fishtailing slightly at top end L. Eero Knihtilä was off early, 10,068/145. Looked like it was a planned halfpass. R. Jan Palmqvist 10,784/ 135 L. Rickard Sundblom 7,513/235 L. Tommy Leindahl got loose towards top end and just hit the reflectors L. Jonas Dantanus 7,341/238 19:40 Pro Modified qualifying session 1 continued The word just came that Kaj-Erik has been checket up and is OK. LL. Timo Äikää missfired heavily and shut off. 13,563/97 LL. Seppo Saapola backed up very slowly. Ran straight as an arrow until the end of the track where he got in to the right lane. No
time recorded and the shattered foam blocks containing the reflectors tells the story RL. Norbert Kuno lifted early, 9,238/177 LL. Markko Lantto 12,97/118 Early shut off R. Terje Håkonsen drifted a little bit to centerline and early shut off. /,971/199 L Marc Meihuizen shut off after burnout. No visible reason for us watching. R. Roger Johansson did the same story as many Pro Mods this evening, drifting slightly to the wall and shut off emidiatelly, 8,547/255 L. Micke Gullqvist straight as an arrow, 6,305/351 L. Micke Lindahl 6,328/349 L. Urban Johansson 6,299/351 19:00 Pro Modified qualifying session 1 RL. Ulf Rapp was close to hit the wall about 50 meters out, saved the situation, got out of control and hit the wall on the right side further out. He quickly got his shuts out and stabilized the car. We quickly got a report that Ulf is A-OK. Short break for cleaning up. LL.Tami Brander left very slow and never really picked up any really big speed, luckily. Tami had to go over in the right lane, but the car never where very close to each other. 18:30 FIM/UEM qualifying after session 1
Pro Stock Bike 18:20 Top Fuel Bike qualifying session 1 LL. Pasi Hirvasoja fishtailed violently but made a fantastic job solving the situation, NOT getting of the throttle.. 8,24/226 LL.Jere Laaksonen almost lost fire from the line but kept going 14,51/161 LL. Mikko Rajaniemi 9,080/171 LL. Kai Selkämaa was very carefully staged by crew. Left hard, drifted to centerline and shut off 8,295/177 LL. Michael Poncha 14,04/195 LL. René van den Berg drifted over the centerline. 18:00 Supertwin qualifying session 1 RL.Greger Johansson sounded really good, but up in smoke after just 2 meters. He never tried to get on it again, just rolling down the track. 16,461/79. LL. Petri Mattson, with a very nice looking bike, took his licens only yesterday. Left good but dropped a cylinder quickly. 18,148/71 LL. Anders Karling sounded very strange while staging. He left but shut of quickly when it didn’t sounded good at all. LL. Martyn de Haas shut off after burnout. It looked like one of his crewmembers spotted a leak. RL. Per Bengtsson straight, clean 6,92/281 LL. Tommy Möller had a troubled run, 8,021/236 Rl. Hans Olav Olstad sounded very strong all way, but lost some power at the far end 7,062/272 LL. Job Heezen left hard and drifted towards the centerline and finally crossed it. Rl. Hans Olav Olstad sounded very strong all way, but lost some power at the far end 7,062/272 LL. Job Heezen left hard and drifted towards the centerline and finally crossed it. 17:45 So we are on with UEM qualifying! We had some excellent sportsman racing before this very long clean up, and I like to once again apologize for not being able to keep up with the pace for those classes! Pro Stock Bike qualifying session 1 Right lane. Anders Abrahamson is back in Pro Stock Bike. Runs a 7.452/279 with a little fishtailing midtrack Right lane. Miia-Maria Vepseläinen left before tree, so no time. Left lane Gabriella Nicolovska 8,981/177 Right lane.Martin Bishop Spun off line, 8,01/251 Left lane. Fredrik Fredlund 7,493/285 Ulf Ögge lost fire at the line. (Sounded very very strong during burnout.) 17:15 More pit notes but we will be starting in two minutes! 16:50 Still cleaning the oil but there are now some more pit notes for you to enjoy. 16:00 After a very long-distance oildown from a Stock car the plan is to go into the Pro session after clean-up is finished. 13:40 We just got the word that racing will start at 14 and we will run one round of Sportsman classes before FIA and UEM classes. The temperature is rising fast now. According to many racers we have spoken to, this morning's rain might have been very good for the rest of the day. The track was cleaned and cooled down a bit. Yesterday was almost too hot says many. The teams are talking about over 30 degrees in the shade under the canopies during yesterday afternoon afternoon. While waiting for the racing, we have posted some pit notes which you can check out via the event index page. 13:10 The rain has gone, we have blue skies around us, and the track crew are working very hard on the strip. 10:30 Good morning, and welcome to the almost-live report from FHRA Nitro Nationals at Alastaro. After having several days with very hot weather it is cloudy today and a drizzling rain makes it impossible to run. Original plan was 2 cycles of qualifying today, 12 and 16. Forecast says that it will clear up at 2 and we just have to wait and see what will happen. Yesterday was all dedicated to sportsman racing and they had a great day in 28 degrees and sun. I should of course have been practicing my typing skills over the winter to be able to keep up with all classes, like Master Tog. But I havent, so like last year, I will do my best to give you reports from the FIA and UEM classes. Reports and pictures ©Eurodragster.com |
