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Rico Anthes Quarter Mile, Hockenheim, 26th-28th August 2022

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Racer notices are at this link courtesy DMSB.

19:10

Super Pro ET eliminations round 1 winners

Franz Aschenbrenner (8.10) 8.186/248.10, Tindra Christensen (8.09) 8.167/261.38, Thierry Senges (8.99) 9.113/238.38 (Michael Winter no-show), Christian Schneebeli (8.18) 8.187/267.00, Christoph Burfeindt (8.75) 8.752/247.45, Robert Gassner (8.47) 8.511/256.62, Stefan Eisenhauer (8.60) 8.667/245.13, Jens Könnecke (8.99) 9.148/246.32, Angel Romero (8.64) 8.629/260.44 (Jan Scheppers no show), Frank Roemer (8.61) 8.635/253.10 (Jochen Beck no-show), Alex Halter (7.70) 7.875/277.82, Mike Bruckmueller (8.21) 8.253/264.72, Billy Gane (8.67) 8.709/241.10.

That's the end of our race report for today, thanks for looking in, come back later for our galleries from today's action and the Night Show which you will be able to see at this link.

18:40

FIM Top Fuel Bike qualifying session 4

Thomas Pettersson 7.034/274.73, Rene van den Berg 6.461/346.28 with some fishtailing mid track.

Final Qualifying:

  1. Rikard Gustafsson 6.042/394.44
  2. Rene van den Berg 6.461/346.28
  3. Eric Richard 6.885/301.08
  4. Thomas Pettersson 7.034/274.73

Final official qualifying results at the end of this session: click here

16:30

FIM Super Twin Bike qualifying session 4

Marc van den Boer 18.844/122.20, very gentle first pass for Marc to get into the ladder. Roman Sixta 7.313/277.72, Chris van Nimmen 7.327/278.79 v Samu Kemppainen 6.871/290.26 getting very close to the right wall and leaning over avoiding contact to the extent that the left exhaust grounded at 1200ft (thanks Tog). Martijn de Haas's bike did not start, Juha Hintukainen 8.617/184.21 the engine note getting lower and lower until with one cylinder out he clicked it.

Final Qualifying:

  1. Marcus Christiansen 6.295/354.71
  2. Martijn de Haas 6.727/323.16
  3. Samu Kemppainen 6.871/290.26
  4. Roman Sixta 7.257/274.59
  5. Chris van Nimmen 7.327/278.79
  6. Juha Hintukainen 8.383/193.24
  7. Christian Jäger 17.862/69.39
  8. Marc van den Boer 18.844/122.20

Final official qualifying results at the end of this session: click here

18:30

FIM-E Pro Stock Bike qualifying session 4

Bump at start of session 8.490. Aswin Le Noble broke on track, Jerome Rougemont 8.043/255.57, Karl-Heinz Weikum having had transmission issues stopped on track v Pavlos Sidiropoulos 7.522/278.14, Martin Newbury broke on track v Charalambos Bousinis 7.491/287.00, Dimitrios Petridis 7.356/289.37 v Bertrand Maurice broke on track.

Final Qualifying:

  1. Bertrand Maurice 7.234/290.49
  2. Dimitrios Petridis 7.356/289.37
  3. Charalambos Bousinis 7.491/287.00
  4. Pavlos Sidiropoulos 7.522/278.14
  5. Jerome Rougemont 7.821/261.85
  6. Martin Newbury 8.054/260.28
  7. Karl-Heinz Weikum 8.490/274.38
  8. David Simon 8.533/191.08
  9. ---DNQ---
  10. Aswin Le Noble 8.873/235.79

Final official qualifying results at the end of this session: click here

Pro ET eliminations round 1 winners

Armin Widmann (10.59) 10.648/202.63, Till Schöninger (9.88) 10.020/209.77, Roberto Bonasso (10.80) 11.293/191.85, Aaron Schmalenberg (11.42) 11.461/187.92, Eberhard Keil (9.12) 9.179/213.96, Karl Geiger (9.85) 9.900/188.79, Nick de Kruif (11.15) 11.015/199.21 broke out by less, Arnold Hol (10.00) 10.259/216.48, Udo Becker (10.18) 10.229/201.50, Rilana Dold (11.65) 11.762/185.18, Philippe Daud (9.65) 9.650/224.23 and Philippe also wins the Perfect ET Award from DMSB, well done Philippe.

Janine Petzold (9.85) 9.854/197.43, Thomas Bublitz (10.35) 10.497/204.32 (Sandro Widmer broke on track), Martin Weikum (10.60) 10.717/175.63 (Jürgen Foersch no show), Ronnie Mercer (9.07) 9.051/231.20 (Nick Weel no show), Gerd Habermann (9.13) 9.161/230.58.

Official results: click here

17:40

Junior Dragster qualifying session 4

Lina Wolf -0.067 v Lucas Potthoff +0.006 into #3, Eleanor Petzold +0.307 Sam Timmers +0.265, Julian Guttzeit +0.048 into #7 v Max Timmers +0.164. Mia Hanke +0.324 v Thore Wolf +0.068 into #10, Anna-Lena Scherschinski +0.130 v Liam McDonald +0.016 into #4. Mia Thoma +0.158 v Cheyenne Visser +0.321, Lukas Schmid 0.125 v Felix Schmid 0.065 into #9.

Final qualifying results: click here.

FIM Junior Drag Bike qualifying session 4

Wichard Veldman (11.00) 11.983/75.63 v Geeuwke Siersema (10.00) 10.252/102.32, Meg Talbot (8.31) 8.233/129.22 Hollie King (11.25) 11.199/91.59 Marie Rosen 8.59 8.657/127.56 Anouk Burgering (12.10) 12.527/85.85. No changes to the standings this session.

Final qualifying results: click here.

17:25

FIA Top Fuel qualifying session 4

Jndia Erbacher 4.049/459.03, candles lit almost all the way and a burst panel bang at the end, bit of a driving job keeping it in the groove too.

Final Qualifying:

  1. Jndia Erbacher 3.892/482.05
  2. Ida Zetterström 4.286/422.93
  3. Dennis Nilsson 4.907/316.61
  4. Antti Horto 4.917/243.32
  5. Susanne Callin 5.492/207.36

Final official qualifying results at the end of this session: click here

17:25

FIA Pro Stock qualifying session 4

Stefan Ernryd 6.760/311.03, Jimmy Ålund 6.682/332.61 v Michael Malmgren 6.699/332.76, no improvements but great consistency in performance

Final Qualifying:

  1. Jimmy Ålund 6.659/334.04
  2. Michael Malmgren 6.696/334.09
  3. Stefan Ernryd 6.729/329.88

Final official qualifying results at the end of this session: click here

17:15

FIA Top Methanol qualifying session 4

Sandro Bellio 5.577/401.81 (0.981 60ft and 3.688/333.47 to half track), the team's hard work paid off to go #1 after the 0.22 FC handicap deducted. Tony Bryntesson 6.252/374.13 v Silvio Strauch 5.582/411.01, consistent for Silvio and Tony suffering dropped cylinders once again. Then Jonny Lagg pushed back after shutting off in the firing up sequence against Linn Fløysvik who then ran a very consistent 5.724/399.37.

Final Qualifying:

  1. Sandro Bellio 5.577/401.81
  2. Jonny Lagg 5.498/422.60
  3. Linn Fløysvik 5.783/398.06
  4. Silvio Strauch 5.575/409.38
  5. Tony Bryntesson 6.132/390.68

Final official qualifying results at the end of this session: click here

17:05

FIA Pro Modified qualifying session 4

Walle Strobel 7.784/205.89, car nosed over in second half of the track, so Walle not a qualifier for eliminations. Andres Arnover 6.437/378.17 with a half second pedal after getting out of shape at 330ft. Norbert Kuno 7.222/260.94 v Marcus Hilt NTR stage foul with two step, Marcus driving down the track nevertheless to entertain the big crowd. Pete Wacker 6.956/310.81, safe run but conservative looking. Andy Robinson 6.080/389.21 v Bruno Bader 6.032/378.50, clean side by side passes. Marck Harteveld 6.093/380.22 v Michel Tooren 6.212/368.86 +0.009RT for Michel. Marcus Perman 6.144/383.04 v Jan Ericsson 5.963/386.31, cars now properly dialled into the conditions. Mats Eriksson 5.961/389.70 v David Vegter 5.919/386.79, David accumulating more points.

Final Qualifying:

  1. David Vegter 5.919/386.79
  2. Jan Ericsson 5.948/388.31
  3. Mats Eriksson 5.949/388.0
  4. Michel Tooren 6.026/384.46
  5. Bruno Bader 6.032/378.50
  6. Andy Robinson 6.080/389.21
  7. Marck Harteveld 6.093/380.22
  8. Marcus Perman 6.144/383.04
  9. Andres Arnover 6.437/378.17
  10. Ingo Eckert 6.629/320.63
  11. Peter Wacker 6.935/309.09
  12. Marcus Hilt 7.137/317.81
  13. Norbert Kuno 7.148/258.67
  14. Jean Dulamon 7.203/282.15
  15. ---DNQ---
  16. Walter Strobel 7.592/238.74

Final official qualifying results at the end of this session: click here

16:35

FIM Top Fuel Bike qualifying session 3

Eric Richard 6.895/316.01 v Thomas Pettersson 7.473/272.77, into the qualifying list for Thomas. Rikard Gustafsson 6.042/394.44 v Rene van den Berg 6.937/291.90.

Qualifying after this session:

  1. Rikard Gustafsson 6.042/394.44
  2. Rene van den Berg 6.630/300.20
  3. Eric Richard 6.885/301.08
  4. Thomas Pettersson 7.473/272.77

Official qualifying results at the end of this session: click here

16:30

FIM Super Twin Bike qualifying session 3

Marc van den Boer shut off on line so last chance saloon for him. Marcus Christiansen 6.295/354.71 v Chris van Nimmen 7.850/285.11, Samu Kemppainen 6.944/324.17 displaced timing block at quarter mile after getting very close to the centre line and recorded Christian Jäger's time of 6.868/158.05 which does not stand, nevertheless good to see Kirsten Krause on Christian's team. Martijn de Haas 7.120/244.85

Qualifying after this session:

  1. Marcus Christiansen 6.295/354.71
  2. Martijn de Haas 6.727/323.16
  3. Samu Kemppainen 6.961/321.72
  4. Roman Sixta 7.257/274.59
  5. Chris van Nimmen 7.850/285.11
  6. Juha Hintukainen 8.383/193.24
  7. Christian Jäger 17.862/69.39

16:20

FIM-E Pro Stock Bike qualifying session 3

Bertrand Maurice 7.234/290.49 outhouse to penthouse, Aswin Le Noble 8.873/235.79, Jerome Rougemont 8.010/257.84 v Karl-Heinz Weikum 9.004/254.67, Charalampos Bousinis 7.584/284.74 to #3 Dimitrios Petridis 7.382/284.97 to #2, Pavlos Sidiropoulos 7.692/278.89 v Martin Newbury 8.054/260.28

Qualifying after this session:

  1. Bertrand Maurice 7.234/290.49
  2. Dimitrios Petridis 7.382/284.97
  3. Charalampos Bousinis 7.584/284.74
  4. Pavlos Sidiropoulos 7.692/278.89
  5. Jerome Rougemont 7.821/261.85
  6. Martin Newbury 8.054/260.28
  7. Karl-Heinz Weikum 8.490/274.38
  8. David Simon 8.533/191.08
  9. Aswin Le Noble 8.873/235.79

16:15

FIM-E Super Street Bike qualifying session 4

Margot Schmidt 9.504/285.94, Eleni Reveltzi 8.874/175.47 v Ricardo Grauer 8.523/214.45, Steve Wood 9.752/171.87, Clemens Walleit 7.339/322.15 v Dániel Donát Lencsés 14.740/90.64, Jake Mechaell 6.959/342.08 to #1 v Stephen Mead 7.380/307.91, Mogens Lund 7.033/333.06 Mathias Bohlin 6.977/331.44 into #2,

Qualifying after this session:

  1. Jake Mechaell 6.959/342.08
  2. Mathias Bohlin 6.977/331.44
  3. Mogens Lund 7.027/338.57
  4. Clemens Walleit 7.339/322.15
  5. Stephen Mead 7.458/314.64
  6. Dániel Donát Lencsés 7.632/259.97
  7. Erich Gruber 7.872/266.02
  8. Ricardo Grauer 7.894/308.25
  9. Steven Wood 8.235/260.94
  10. Eleni Reveltzi 8.874/175.47
  11. Margot Schmidt 9.504/285.94

Final official qualifying results at the end of this session: click here

16:05

Super Twin Top Gas Bike qualifying session 4

Carsten Hormann 8.761/238.64 v Gerhard Caspari 7.513/291.27 to #1, Olaf Menzi v Martin Bühler NTR for both. Jörg Lymant 7.387/286.20, grabs #1 back on the final pass of class qualifying!

Final qualifying results: click here.

Funny Bike qualifying session 4

Final qualifying results: click here.

Super Comp Bike qualifying session 4

Brad Head 8.520/262.26, Tim Christiansen 8.723/240.97, Sascha Hartl 10.105/221.40 v Torben 8.505/248.86 to #1.

Final qualifying results: click here.

15:40

ET Bike qualifying session 4

Hannes Burgering (10.78) 15.396/217.71 Patrick Lenaers (11.00) 13.582/190.73 Stefan Graff (9.70) 9.841/218.85 v Hubert Franger (9.70) NTR Lutz Kreuzpeintner (10.79) 11.095/201.09 Rainer Hescher (10.08) 10.268/221.42, Carsten Hemberger-Frauenkron (10.13) 11.376/170.26 #5 v Michel Schmidlin (9.31) NTR #6 Lorens Bochnig 9.25 Marc Quattelbaum 9.25 shut off for track clean up.

Final qualifying results: click here.

15:30

Competition Eliminator qualifying session 4

Thomas Ranft (6.67) 8.610/229.37 #4 v Manuel Kreiter (7.68) 9.684/236.51 #3. René Ehrismann (8.02) 7.391/303.35 #2, Robin Sattler (9.52) 8.998/234.06 Berndt Rudolf (6.67) 8.751/250.15.

Final qualifying results: click here.

15:25

Super Comp qualifying session 4

Arndt Putzmann 9.434/241.58 #6 v Gerd Habermann 8.985/228.23 #1, Markus Ochsner 9.119/234.87 #3 Enrico Bailo 9.015/239.61 #2. Martin Friedschröder pushed back before starting.

Final qualifying results: click here.

15:20

Super Pro ET qualifying session 4

Claude Knopf (7.60) 7.621/290.22 to #3 v Jan Scheppers (6.50) 8.844/262.74, Gerhard Dold (8.80) 8.837/244.66 v Robin Perez (8.25) 8.182/243.73 breakout, Thierry Senges (8.99) 9.071/228.84 v Frank Römer (8.63) 8.615/254.04 breakout, Alex Halter (7.77) 7.859/278.71 #6 v Michael Winter (7.95) 8.364/281.90 #10, Tindra Christensen (8.17) 8.123/262.29 #5 Christian Schneebeli (8.20) 8.199/266.61 #21 double break out Eric Mathis (7.92) 8.065/271.13 #9 v Robert Gassner (8.54) 8.496/247.08 #11, Mike Bruckmüller (8.26) 8.242/265.50 #10 v Oliver Petzold (8.31) 8.467/255.93 #26.

Jens Könnecke (8.99) 9.077/247.56 #8 v Stefan Eisenhauer (8.40) 8.854/245.77 #10, Harry Scherschinski (8.50) 8.671/265.47 Billy Gane (8.67) 8.706/248.58 Christophe Burfeindt (8.64) 9.069/203.42 #11 v Angel Romero (8.61) 8.686/249.98 #22 up to #10, James Rechsteiner (8.99) 10.177/209.26 #18 v Franz Aschenbrenner (8.10) 8.127/263.73 #13, Urs Embacher (6.50) 7.828/176.80 with burst panel going #16 Nowak (8.30) 8.661/260.28 #18 Alain Duerr (8.65) 8.6398/251.05 #1.

Final qualifying results: click here.

14:55

Super Gas qualifying session 4

Oscar Scappocin 9.933/211.54 Marianne Wisotzke 10.119/208.40, Pascal Czieschowitz NTR v Stevan Reffeltrath NTR, Daniel Vetterl 9.968/215.38 v Michael Vogt 9.921/217.60, Stephan Blauwitz 9.989/217.36

Final qualifying results: click here.

14:50

Pro ET qualifying session 4

Roberto Bonasso (9.80) 10.107209.67 #4 Dirk Sommer 11.58 11.555/187.97 #21, Dirk Kunold (11.48) 11.678/183.20 Janine Petzold (19.69 9.689/230.76 v Joerg Boenisch 12.369/172.73 Aaron Schmalenberg (11.49) 11.340/192.55 v Laurent Levi (9.90) 10.024/210.19, Arnold Hol (10.00) 10.936/151.33 #17 v Karl Geiger (9.75) 9.981/229.05 #20, Til Schöninger (9.98) 10.010/212.48 v Ronnie Mercer (9.05) 9.079/230.93, Robert Willinger (9.52) 10.103/193.87 Marc-William Wagner (10.00) 9.934/224.37, Eberhard Keil (9.12) 9.061/237.26 Thomas Bublitz (10.31) 10.412/205.54, Jill Kemp (11.05) stopped on track v Udo Becker (10.18) 10.212/208.92.

Stefan Alberth (10.58) 10.614/203.39 v Jerry Bachinger (9.15) 9.038/250.87, Sally Ekerst (10.30) 10.400/205.37 0.003 RT J Foersch (11.70) 11.873/183.01, Ed Breedveld (9.52) 9.667/224.97 v Michael Försch (10.80) 10.839/196.88, Jürgen Frank (11.70) 11.868/187.74 #28 Clarissa Czekalla (10.41) 10.748/210.30 #12, Harald Geuss (10.31) NTR stage foul v Philipp Thurnher (9.55) 11.192/210.76 Sandro Widmer (10.00) 10.456/202.21 v Rilana Dold (11.70) 11.654/182.41, Gerd Habermann (9.12) 9.105/231.35 Robert Vos (10.01) 10.471/186.10, Martin Weikum (10.50) 10.491/207.84 Phillip Daud (9.65) 9.680/224.42, Armin Widmann (10.60) 10.628/202.04 up to #3 v Matteo Bailo (9.53) 9.375/233.68 #24,

Final qualifying results: click here.

14:20

Funny Bike qualifying session 3

Markus Laur 14.802/82.28 v Jacky Olie-Zijlstra 9.960/219.56, Stefan Hagenstein 10.079/246.66 in at #8 v Kars Van Den Belt 11.405/115.79, Thomas Joswig 7.826/283.55 v #4 Petr Ceska 27.326/88.05 #5.

Super Twin Top Gas qualifying session 3

Martin Bühler 8.322/266.02 #3 v Carsten Hormann 8.853/235.76 no improvement, Jörg Lymant 8.313/201.74 #1 v Gerhard Caspari NTR.

Super Comp Bike qualifying session 3

Brad Head 8.519/262.74 to consolidate #1 v Sascha Hartl 9.558/224.30, Torben Frahm 8.547/258.49 v Tim Christensen 8.551/244.16. .

Junior Dragster qualifying session 3

Max Timmers -0.008 Sam Timmers 0.182, Lina Wolf into #1 with 0.003 RT, -0.058 for Liam McDonald. Mia Hanke 0.300 v Lucas Potthoff -0.039, Anna-Lena Scherschinski 0.094 v Cheyenne Visser -0.003, Thore Wolf 0.101 Mia Thoma 0.284, Julian Guttzeit -0.004 v Felix Schmid 0.270, Lukas Schmid 0.002 into #1 v Eleanor Petzold 0.100.

13:25

FIM Junior Drag Bike qualifying session 3

Hollie King (10.98) 11.278/91.31 Meg Talbot (8.25) 8.410/126.97. Geeuwke Siersema (10.00) 10.137/101.19 v Wichard Veldman (10.95) 11.222/88.47, Anouk Burgering (12.10) 12.202/87.86 up from #5 to #3 v Marie Madleen Rosen (8.59) 8.618/125.61 #1.

FIA Top Fuel qualifying session 3

Dennis Nilsson, revs sounding high, explosion from the engine at around 500ft, 4.907/316.61, improvement nevertheless but a lot of work for the team we suspect. Susanne Callin 5.492/207.36 v Jndia Erbacher next, 3.892/482.05 for Jndia and cylinders lit all the way down the track, outhouse to penthouse as they say. Susanne suffered tyre shake up in smoke and lifted. Antti Horto finished the sesson with 4.917/243.32, lifting before the eighth after tyre shake. No Ida this session.

Apologies to readers for lack of incremental times in our report.

Qualifying after this session:

  1. Jndia Erbacher 3.892/482.05
  2. Ida Zetterström 4.286/422.93
  3. Dennis Nilsson 4.907/316.61
  4. Antti Horto 4.917/243.32
  5. Susanne Callin 5.492/207.36

13:10

FIA Pro Stock qualifying session 3

Michael Malmgren 8.638/173.48, tyre shake after the launch, car went sideways at 330ft and lifted. Stefan Ernryd 7.042/321.01 v Jimmy Ålund 6.709/330.03. Good to see Jimmy back, the engine kicked a rod and had to use his spare engine this session.

Qualifying after this session:

  1. Jimmy Ålund 6.659/334.04
  2. Michael Malmgren 6.696/334.09
  3. Stefan Ernryd 6.729/329.88

13:00

FIA Top Methanol qualifying session 3

Jonny Lagg 5.508/435.21 0.980 60ft and 3.679/349.35, getting close to the centre line but not lifting. Then Silvio Strauch who had a burst panel go with some engine damage from a broken valve getting stuck in the cylinder head causing consequent severe engine damage, great effort from the team to return in this session v Tony Bryntesson. High revs on the burnout for Silvio 5.575/409.38 (0.917 to 60ft and 3.654/328.98 to half track) and 6.132/390.68 for Tony (1.056 and 4.133/312.33 to half track and cylinder out again), nice runs.

The two funny cars of Sandro Bellio 10.199/121.45 and Linn Fløysvik 5.786/398.93 (1.028 60ft and 3.829/324.75 to half track) next, very consistent for Linn however Sandro suffering tyre shake and short shifting did not improve the situation. Linn's position reflects her 0.22 handicap which will be in the tree for eliminations.

Qualifying after this session:

  1. Jonny Lagg 5.498/422.60
  2. Linn Fløysvik 5.783/398.06
  3. Silvio Strauch 5.575/409.38
  4. Tony Bryntesson 6.132/390.68
  5. Sandro Bellio 7.657/202.87

12:45

FIA Pro Modified qualifying session 3

Walle Strobel with his third licensing pass, needs to run 7.4s or better, car given extra weight to stabilise it down the track, wheels up launch to 7.592/238.74. First runs for Jean Dulamon 7.203/282.15 (who had issues with his truck on the way to the track) and Andres Arnover 7.292/325.87 (who suffered chute deployment in the lanes yesterday from a sensor), cars got very close to the centre line and to one another however lifted before disaster occured.

Norbert Kuno's car wouldn't fire against Marcus Hilt and went back to the pits so last chance saloon for Norbert. Marcus ran 7.137/317.81 on and off the throttle (1.083 to 60ft) and 4.503/228.00 to half track. Hi to Camp Stanley who is overseeing Marcus as usual having flown over from the US.

Michel Tooren 6.036/388.38 v Ingo Eckert 6.629/320.63, nice pair of runs and Ingo close to his 6.59 PB. Peter Wacker 6.935/309.09 v Marck Harteveld 6.170/323.20 with Dutch orange wrap on his car just for this event, however some fans want it to remain, Marck wandering around his lane but not lifting for anything. Bruno Bader 6.079/375.88 getting close to the left wall and correcting v Andy Robinson 6.222/385.76 driving through big tyre shake.

Jan Ericsson 5.948/388.31 to jump ahead of Mats Eriksson into #2 v Marcus Perman 7.243/230.98, David Vegter 9.112/152.81, front wheels up on the launch with subsequent tyre shake v Mats Eriksson whose engine ceased to run after the launch.

Qualifying after this session:

  1. David Vegter 5.935/381.89
  2. Jan Ericsson 5.948/388.31
  3. Mats Eriksson 5.949/388.0
  4. Michel Tooren 6.026/384.46
  5. Bruno Bader 6.079/375.88
  6. Marcus Perman 6.146/374.13
  7. Marck Harteveld 6.170/323.20
  8. Andy Robinson 6.222/385.76
  9. Ingo Eckert 6.629/320.63
  10. Peter Wacker 6.935/309.09
  11. Marcus Hilt 7.137/317.81
  12. Norbert Kuno 7.148/258.67
  13. Jean Dulamon 7.203/282.15
  14. Andres Arnover 7.292/325.87
  15. Walter Strobel 7.592/238.74

12:15

FIM Top Fuel Bike qualifying session 2

Eric Richard crossed over behind Thomas Pettersson, who himself had no time due to a stage foul. Rene van den Berg 6.630/300.20 v Rikard Gustafsson 6.118/374.52. Eric later allowed a rerun to 6.885/301.08.

Qualifying after this session:

  1. Rikard Gustafsson 6.118/374.52
  2. Rene van den Berg 6.630/300.20
  3. Eric Richard 6.885/301.08

Official qualifying results at the end of this session: click here

12:10

FIM Super Twin Bike qualifying session 2

Roman Sixta 7.257/274.59, Christian Jäger 17.862/69.39 first run lifted as bike went towards the centre after 60ft v Juha Hintukainen pushed back, Chris van Nimmen pushed back v Samu Kemppainen 13.303/88.35, Martijn de Haas 6.751/334.24 (1.157 60ft and 4.425/275.43 to half track) v Marcus Christiansen pushed back, Happy Birthday to Marcus nevertheless!

Qualifying after this session:

  1. Marcus Christiansen 6.393/314.37
  2. Martijn de Haas 6.727/323.16
  3. Samu Kemppainen 6.961/321.72
  4. Roman Sixta 7.257/274.59
  5. Chris van Nimmen 7.968/221.96
  6. Juha Hintukainen 8.383/193.24
  7. Christian Jäger 17.862/69.39

Official qualifying results at the end of this session: click here

12:00

FIM-E Pro Stock Bike qualifying session 2

Aswin Le Noble 9.017/226.66, Dimitrios Petridis 8.265/194.97 v Bertrand Maurice stopped on track, Martin Newbury (on a bike loaned by Richard Gipp) 8.232/257.23 v Pavlos Sidiropoulos 7.753/276.76, Karl-Heinz Weikum 8.490/274.38 v Charalampos Bousinis 8.140/274.98, David Simon 10.740/132.89 v Jerome Rougemont 8.152/251.69

Last chance saloon for Bertrand Maurice after cancellation of yesterday's session.

Qualifying after this session:

  1. Pavlos Sidiropoulos 7.753/276.76
  2. Jerome Rougemont 7.821/261.85
  3. Charalampos Bousinis 7.959/221.28
  4. Martin Newbury 8.232/257.23
  5. Dimitrios Petridis 8.265/194.97
  6. Karl-Heinz Weikum 8.490/274.38
  7. David Simon 8.533/191.08
  8. Aswin Le Noble 9.017/226.66

11:50

FIM-E Super Street Bike qualifying session 3

Margot Schmidt 9.506/272.90, Dániel Donát Lencsés 7.632/259.97 v Steve Wood 8.235/260.94, Erich Gruber 7.910/297.33 v Eleni Reveltzi 10.258/134.49, Steve Mead 7.458/314.64 v Clemens Walleit 7.429/318.89, Ricardo Grauer 7.922/294.99 v Mogens Lund 7.027/338.57 Mathias Bohlin 7.067/327.59 v Jake Mechaell 7.125/334.35

Qualifying after this session:

  1. Mogens Lund 7.027/338.57
  2. Jake Mechaell 7.038/331.34
  3. Mathias Bohlin 7.067/327.59
  4. Clemens Walleit 7.429/318.89
  5. Stephen Mead 7.458/314.64
  6. Dániel Donát Lencsés 7.632/259.97
  7. Erich Gruber 7.872/266.02
  8. Ricardo Grauer 7.894/308.25
  9. Steven Wood 8.235/260.94
  10. Eleni Reveltzi 9.250/172.04
  11. Margot Schmidt 9.506/272.90

Official qualifying results at the end of this session: click here

11:35

ET Bike qualifying session 3

Hannes Burgering 11.690/217.32 v Ralf Rüdiger (9.70) 11.961/191.84, Patrick Lenaers (11.00) NTR v Carsten Hemberger-Frauenkron (9.88) 10.221/213.52, Hubert Franger (9.58) 10.060/229.29 #2 Lutz Kreuzpeintner (11.05) 10.988/202.72 #3, Rainer Hescher (10.08) 10.318/219.03 #5 v Stefan Graff (9.65) 9.818/211.42 #1, Michel Schmidlin (9.18) 9.569/233.36 #7 v Marc Quattelbaum (9.19) 9.325/231.54 #2, Lorens Bochnig (9.30) 9.853/229.80 #4.

11:30

Competition Eliminator qualifying session 3

Bernd Rudolph (6.67) 10.203/237.05 #5 René Ehrismann (8.02) 7.530/298.51 improvement in #2, Manuel Kreiter (7.68) 9.155/202.83 #3 v Thomas Ranft (6.67) 9.713 #4, Robin Sattler (9.52) 8.916/234.47 #1.

11:20

Super Comp qualifying session 3

Markus Ochsner 9.180/233.01 #4 Arndt Putzmann 9.616/242.07 #5, Gerd Habermann 8.872/227.92 #1, Martin Friedschröder (VW Karmann Ghia) 9.301/227.40, Enrico Bailo 9.006/239.22 #2.

11:10

Super Pro ET qualifying session 3

Eric Mathis (7.92) 8.155/264.37 v Robert Gassner (8.41) 8.545/256.02, Sylvain Nowak (8.05) 9.343/190.84 with a wiggle at the top end v Jan Scheppers (7.70) 8.234/269.42, Alex Halter and Gerhard Dold shut off on line for rain.

On the restart Alex Halter (7.70) 7.859/277.65 v Gerhard Dold (8.80) 9.092/235.23, Stefan Eisenhauer (8.40) 10.595/136.25 #12 v Tindra Christensen (8.14) 10.342/121.22 #7, Alain Dürr (8.65) #2 up to #1 8.657/250.82 v Mike Bruckmüller (8.22) 8.300/256.90 #11 up to #7, Christian Schneebeli (8.15) 8.263/264.82 #12 Robin Perez 8.376/232.98 (8.25) #13, Billy Gane (8.67) 8.940/240.65 #8 v Christoph Burfeindt (8.64) 10.180/157.04 #15, Harry Scherschinski (8.50) 9.443/190.94 #3 v Claude Knopf (7.60) 8.495/281.71 #21, Franz Aschenbrenner (8.10) 8.671/199.92 #19 Oliver Petzold (8.39) 8.310/258.89 #2.

Frank Römer (8.61) 8.651/253.39 #7 up to #4 v Urs Embacher (6.50) 7.605/252.92 Urs getting into the qualifying list at #23. Thierry Senges (8.99) 20.064/190.44 #6 v Angel Romero (8.70) 8.666/249.52 breakout #20, James Rechsteiner (8.90) 10.351/205.60 #26 v Jens Könnecke (8.99) 9.088/239.61 #20 up to #9

09:45

Super Gas qualifying session 3

Pascal Czieschowitz 9.683/227.95 v Daniel Vetterl (Fast Forward Nova, show quality car) 10.005/213.16, Stevan Reffeltrath 9.975/232.81 into #1 v Oscar Scappocin 10.070/208.12. Then Stephan Blauwitz 9.914/216.46 into #1.

09:40

Pro ET qualifying session 3

Dirk Sommer 11.750/188.74 and Juergen Foersch 11.866/182.05 first down the track, then Martin Weikum (Camaro) 10.416/207.70 v Aaron Schmalenberg (Coronet) 11.510/190.64 up into #11, then Michael Foersch 10.842/195.81 v Armin Widmann #1 qualifier 10.865/201.03. Followed by Johannes Nold's '67 Mustang (9.00) 9.258/198.57 v Robert Willinger in a Nova (9.82) 9.703/225.18 breakout. Thomas Bublitz (10.31) 10.412/204.57 Laurent Levi (9.80) 10.080/208.32, Joerg Boenisch (11.99) 12.490/172.34 Philipp Daud (9.62) 9.658/223.91 up to #5, Karl Geiger (9.75) 11.181/224.79 v Stefan Alberth (10.49) 10.616/197.92, Eberhard Keil (9.12) 12.134/144.22 v Nick Weel (9.35) 9.430/229.88 up to #17.

Harald Geuss (Opel GT) (10.26) 10.505/179.31 v Marc-William Wagner (BMW520i) (10.00) 10.317/220.97, Roberto Bonasso (9.65) 25.279/73.92 Rilana Dold (11.70) 11.707/181.59 into #1 +0.007 on dial, Dirk Kunold (11.43) 11.707/183.93 v Janine Petzold (9.85) 9.714/229.25, Ed Breedveld (9.52) 9.594/225.67 up to #14 v Clarissa Czekalla (10.39) 10.573/215.94, Sandro Widmer (10.00) 10.242/227.49 v Andre Nahler (10.00) 10.599/204.05, Udo Becker (10.15) 10.216/209.75 up to #13 v Alexander Beck (9.00) 9.341/189.41, Jürgen Frank (11.55) 11.835/186.97 v Arnold Hol (10.00) 10.144/222.10, Philipp Thurnher (9.38) 11.186/211.09 v Jerry Bachinger (9.00) 9.355/229.27 with 0.005RT.

Robert Vos (10.01) 9.961/178.87 v Matteo Bailo (9.33) 10.258/180.67, Til Schöninger (10.10) 10.093/210.64 Sally Darleen Ekerst (9.90) 10.704/201.42 Niek de Kruif (11.15) 11.166/197.20 up to #2 with -0.002RT v Ronnie Mercer (9.07) 9.056/230.14 #4 qualifier, Gerd Habermann (9.17) 9.137/229.51.

09:15

Good morning and welcome to day 2 of our coverage from the 35th NitrOlympX from the Hockenheimring. It was raining overnight but stopped a couple of hours ago so the track crew are at work drying the surface out. The temperatures today are a lot cooler than yesterday which was hot and humid. It's currently 21C and forecast for a maximum of 24C with wind of 7mph from the north west. Density altitude is forecast at 1500-2000ft with 88-94 grains of water, so still humid.

We had two sessions of qualifying for most classes yesterday however the FIM-E Top Fuel Bike and Super Twin Bike were carried over due to the far shutdown area being damp, Super Pro ET and Pro ET have also been carried over. Today's qualifying will commence with the carried-over third session of Pro ET, Super Gas and Super Pro ET and the other sportsman classes, with FIM-E classes running mid morning depending on weather conditions. We are linking our sportsman reports to the official qualifying lists so you can see the order with one click.

Greetings to all Eurodragsterholics, hi to Kai Plathan from Finland who is tuned in with Otto, also to long time supporter and sponsor Bob Roberts. Hi also to colleagues Julian, who we hope is feeling better on his Birthday, many happy returns Julian, and Kieran who has been busy with new uploads to his Mk1 Youtube channel and is represented on Andy Robinson's Anger Management Camaro via a Mk1Kieran decal. Greetings also to former editor Tog who is staying tuned and keeping your race reporter on the straight and narrow.

Happy Birthday also to Super Twin Bike racer Marcus Christiansen, and former Top Fuel racer Håkan Fällström, we hope you have a great day.

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