Event Coverage

2007 UK National Finals
Saturday (qualifying)

	Mats Andersson's little Opel launched level in Pro ET qualifying whilst in the background Dave Cherrett's Model A van reached for the sky.		Wayne Nicholson led Super Pro ET qualifying after the first of today's two sessions.
	Kerry Hough made her first competitive outing in the Harrison family's Super Pro ET dragster and ran into the 7.4s.		Steve Turner drives the Turner Motorsport Top Methanol Dragster in UK rounds and ran into the fives today.
	Your News Editor is perilously close to spending the off-season growing a ponytail as Eurodragster.com News sponsor Derek Flynn missed the fives in his TMD today.		Bert Englefield celebrated his new Direct Plastics Online sponsorship by taking the Pro Mod qualifying lead.
	Dennis and/or Paul Wratten made his second NFAA appearance with the Dirty Harry altered.		Martin Ayton's name is never very far from the top in Volkswagen Sportsman qualifying.
	We felt a bit rotten when VW Sportsman racer Adrian Wigley clocked 17.0000 on a 17.00 dial-in after the Eurodragster.com / LA Racing Parts Perfect ET Award had been won to three decimals. So we gave Adrian £50 as well.		Jamie Sneddon blasted into the 7.8s in Super Street Bike qualifying.
	Ade Lockley is not far off the sevens with an 8.0 on his Super Street Bike.		Eurodragster.com 9.50 Bike report contributor Chris Jones has a shot at the 2007 UK National Championship.
	Team Breakout flagship Geof Connor made his second 9.50 Bike appearance of the year.		Today's wheelie gallery commences with Frank Mason in Super Comp qualifying...
	...continues with Martin Curbishley up on three wheels...		...and concludes with Real Steel Street Eliminator racer Colin Lazenby.
	Real Steel Street Eliminator racer Ray Tucker must have fun doing right hand turns with that injector in the way.		Steve Pateman leads Real Steel Street Eliminator with an early shut off 8.1. We understand that Steve backed off early because he thought the run was a nine, was he sick when he found out.
	Les Harris took the front fairing off his Tilly III Supertwin Gas bike, pity since it robbed us of the chance to see the great paintwork.		Supertwin ET seems to have been a hit with the NAST racers.
	Andy Kirk celebrated his birthday weekend with a potential new Super Modified speed record of 184 mph after he got over the shock of Bahrain-resident son Lee's appearance in his pit.		Andy Hone leads Super Modified qualifying...they don't like it up 'em!
	Final checks for Wild Bunch racer Chris Hartnell and is that an extended pinkie for Chief Starter Ian Marshall?		Ant Harris has a shot at the Wild Bunch Series and has the added advantage of a race car you could find in the snow.
	Netherlands visitor Rene Van Den Berg in Top Fuel Bike qualifying.		The Cannonball-style qualifying in the NFAA is already very tight with Frank Bennett well-placed.
	Matthew Wright of Eurodragster.com Home and News sponsor Gleeson Wright Security made a very competent licencing pass in his AA Fuel Altered. How tall is that rear wing?		Tim Blakemore burning out in Funny Bike qualifying under the supervision of Wendy Clutterbuck.
	We think Steve French's 7.14 in Funny Bike qualifying is somewhere near a Personal Best.		Philippe Runget made the trip from France to contest Pro Stock Bike and is currently fifth.
	Stu Crane's Warpspeed Racing Comp Bike has a simple but we think effective paint job.		Shawn Rodman ran into the nines in Supertwin Fuel qualifying.
	Nick Griffin ended the day fifth in Super Street qualifying, right-side when several others weren't.		Hans Van Der Spek's trip from The Netherlands was well worthwhile with the Sportsman ET qualifying lead.
	Another father-daughter duo is Super Street Bike racer Pete Bellenie and Junior Dragster racer Rhiannon.		Ross Norris led Junior Dragster qualifying after today's single session.
	Pete Creswell leads Super Comp qualifying with an 8.9001 which won him the last-ever three-decimal Eurodragster.com / LA Racing Parts Perfect ET Award. When Pete came to collect the cheque his first question was whether the Eurodragster.com / Speedflow Perfect Light Award was still available.		With the bad weather and oildowns and other downtime we ran into the evening; John Everitt contested the second Super Pro ET qualifier under darkening skies.
	By the time Julian Harris and Chris Reed ran in the second 9.50 Bike qualifier it was dark.		A returning Zane Llewellyn dropped his Super Comp rail's water on the track twice in two passes.

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