2004 SPRC Summernationals
Saturday (qualifying)

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19:00

It has started to rain again at the top end of the strip so Race Director Darren Prentice has called a halt for today. The plan for tomorrow is to complete the outstanding classes' first qualifiers - that is Super Gas, Super Street Bike, Comp Bike, Super Street, Super Modified, Super Comp, Funny Bike, Pro Stock Bike, Supertwin Fuel and Top Methanol - and then run another complete cycle of qualiying before going into eliminations.

We have posted today's photographs of those classes which did get to run, you can view those via the Event Index.

It's a 9:00 start tomorrow so tune back then and we'll bring you the news from the pits and all the action from qualifying and eliminations.

15:50

Super Pro ET top five qualifiers after session 1:

  1. Barry Giles +0.002 7.652/170.53
  2. Steve Johnson +0.016 7.566/174.97
  3. Paul Davies +0.030 8.730/135.48
  4. John Ellis +0.063 7.413/171.01
  5. John Everitt +0.072 8.932/149.44

Next up, when it stops with the light drizzle, is Top Methanol.

15:40

9.90 Bike top five qualifiers after session 1:

  1. Fred Furlong 9.906/138.33
  2. Geoff Connor 9.957/128.92
  3. Dave Baker 9.994/129.78
  4. Steve Coombs 9.995/128.91
  5. Martin Walker 10.014/140.23

Custom Car Street Eliminator top five qualifiers after session 1:

  1. Colin Lazenby 8.324/176.41
  2. Steve Nash 8.577/145.62
  3. Ian Jackson 8.587/162.90
  4. Andy Frost 8.787/162.39
  5. Allen Curtis 9.735/143.39

A new Personal Best ET for Colin Lazenby takes the #1 spot; Steve Nash backed off by 1000 feet, sandbagging again Splinter?

Wild Bunch top five qualifiers after session 1:

  1. Joe Stevens +0.145 10.145/128.56
  2. Andrew Murphy +0.224 12.614/102.24
  3. Chris Hartnell +0.768 9.868/136.83
  4. Tony Wynne-Jones +2.200 13.900/90.76
  5. Andrew Gibb +12.853 25.153/56.09

Supertwin Street top five qualifiers after session 1:

  1. Mark Earrey 10.383/131.21
  2. Ian Radanke 11.166/129.66
  3. Chris Mott 11.627/123.20
  4. Dave Jones 11.647/121.98
  5. Neil Dickson 11.824/119.31

Supertwin Modified top five qualifiers after session 1:

  1. Simon Hodgson 10.010/140.14
  2. Tim Boutle 11.596/117.23
  3. Pete Richarddon 11.687/120.37
  4. Barrie Gregory 11.959/117.71

Supertwin Gas top five qualifiers after session 1:

  1. George Laycock 9.628/136.29
  2. Andy Smith 9.936/132.39
  3. Ric Naylor 10.847/121.65
  4. Les Harris 10.897/123.55
  5. Don Irvine 11.431/118.81
13:55

Apologies for the break in service which was nothing to do with any problem here at the track or with Eurodragster; it was down to our ISP in the USA but as you can see we are back in business now.

You haven't missed anything, since it has been raining since our last update. It has now stopped raining and the track crew are hard at work drying the track; the strip looks fine but the shutdown area is very damp.

Stay tuned.

10:20

Pro ET top five qualifiers after session 1:

  1. Brian Huxley +0.021 10.821/121.52
  2. Ian Brown +0.024 10.844/120.30
  3. Carl Burton +0.031 11.121/119.31
  4. Rick McCann +0.050 10.300/129.40
  5. Terri Lee +0.051 10.651/130.83

Beetlemania VW Sportsman top five qualifiers after session 1:

  1. Mick Geraghty +0.162 15.512/82.39
  2. Graham Fairhead +0.192 15.692/83.67
  3. Christos Kouzaris +0.225 21.425/59.05
  4. Simon Funnell +0.324 17.774/77.99
  5. Martin Ayton +0.516 15.316/89.64

Jon Rathbone Race Cars VW Pro top five qualifiers after session 1:

  1. Ken Blomer +0.148 9.348/122.78
  2. Steve Roberts +0.155 13.085/97.40
  3. Justin Aldred +0.189 11.589/107.46
  4. Russ Fellows +0.210 10.710/124.59
  5. Richard Webb +0.342 11.222/124.33

AMR Motors VW Alternate Engine top five qualifiers after session 1:

  1. Spencer Tramm +0.017 9.667/138.79
  2. Ian Sewell +0.225 15.425/83.37
  3. Andy Raw +0.368 12.768/112.76
  4. Joe Williams +0.392 15.392/84.61
  5. Mark Skeen +0.551 17.301/76.92

10.90 Bike top five qualifiers after session 1:

  1. Phil Pratt 10.915/123.55
  2. Shaun Spiers 10.969/111.32
  3. John Hackney 11.162/106.90
  4. Dave Burfitt 11.490/115.07
  5. Andy Grant 11.846/121.95

9:30

Junior Dragster top five qualifiers after session 1:

  1. Milly Bond 0.000
  2. Collin Morrice 0.033
  3. Jay Hauser 0.086
  4. Nick Mugridge 0.121
  5. Ross Norris 0.123

The Eurodragster.com/Speedflow Perfect Light Award is won on the fourth pairing of the event by Milly Bond, who is now £75 better off. Well done Milly!

Sportsman ET top qualifiers after session 1:

  1. Rick Denny +0.018 13.458/98.86
  2. Jon Turner +0.025 12.755/105.62
  3. Chris Emms +0.029 20.529/64.20
  4. Nick Gay +0.061 15.961/83.83
  5. Ian Petrie +0.073 18.573/71.67

7:40

Good morning and welcome from Santa Pod Raceway for day one of the SPRC Summernationals. It's qualifying day and we're here to bring you all the news in association with American Car Imports.

The Webster Race Engineering/MPM Oil webcam is already on-line and is broadcasting a picture every two minutes.

Trackside conditions right now are 12.1 C, 77% humidity and 30.06 inches of air pressure.

A big good morning to all of our friends from Volkszone who are tuned in to follow the progress of the three VWDRC classes. Hope you guys are having a good weekend and we'll do our best to keep you up-to-date.

Qualifying is scheduled to commence at 9:00 this morning with Junior Dragster, and three full cycles are planned. As ever our plan is to bring you the top five qualifiers in each class and other on-track highlights as we go through the day, so stay tuned and we'll bring you the first update as soon as we can after 9:00.


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