Santa Pod Raceway, 17th-19th May 2019
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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 return to the Event Index. 23:15 Today's gallery has been posted and is available via the Event Index. It contains 205 pictures courtesy of Kirstie, Julian and Diana. The first round pairings are as follow: VP Racing Fuels Pro Doorslammer first round pairings
Simon Barlow v Freddy Fagerström Turbo Technics Pro Street first round pairings
Andy Bond v Ian Cleminshaw True Street first round pairings
Chris Roylance v Beavis Allen Eibach Front Wheel Drive first round pairings
Nathan Birch v Lee Openshaw 6 Cylinder first round pairings Regis la Caer v Paul Dziubek Webster Race Engineering 4 Cylinder first round pairings
Phil West v Johnny Marriage 21:05 Pairings will be posted here after the drawing ceremony but here is the final qualifying. VP Racing Fuels Pro Doorslammer qualifying Position Driver R.T. E.T. MPH 1 PD71 MATTIAS WULCAN 0.1443 5.8698 234.84 2 PD4071 JAN ERICSSON 0.0576 6.0810 242.50 3 PD2933 LENN LINDELL 0.1313 6.1168 218.99 4 PD70 CHRIS ISAACS 0.1537 6.4398 224.74 5 PD507 JON WEBSTER 0.1925 6.5226 221.34 6 PD17 FREDRIK FAGERSTROM 0.3313 6.5425 214.87 7 PD3517 ANDREAS SJODIN 0.6251 6.5622 226.65 8 PD4234 CAROLINE STRAND -0.1176 6.7436 160.17 9 PD175 MICHAEL NORD 0.2538 7.2565 147.19 10 PD45 CHRIS ORTHODOXOU 0.9264 8.0633 182.83 11 PD81 SIMON BARLOW 0.2077 8.1064 136.14 12 PD449 PEL NORMAN 0.4728 8.1659 170.46 13 PD139 JOHN SLEATH 0.1680 8.2515 169.19 14 PD28 MARCUS PERMAN 0.5352 8.4985 105.21 15 PD51 JIMMY ALUND 0.0451 8.5436 89.43 16 PD1953 JOHN TEBENHAM -0.1018 9.2976 97.57 17 PD911 ANDRES ARNOVER 0.4305 9.4111 95.26 18 PD54 PAULA ATKIN 0.6116 10.3011 86.2 19 PD21 MICHAEL GULLQVIST 1.1321 10.8723 66.67 20 PD22 BOBBY WALLACE -0.0015 11.2828 73.95 21 PD2771 CHARLIE OSTEDT 3.7828 12.8673 65.51 22 PD38 ANDY WRIGHT JR 0.1493 19.7219 39.38 Turbo Technics Pro Street qualifying Position Driver R.T. E.T. MPH 1 PS11 MARCIN BLAUTH 1.4457 7.9100 182.88 2 PS10 MARK TODD 0.7262 8.1804 172.41 3 PS69 DAVE MACE 0.7602 8.1935 165.47 4 PS68 DAVID MAHONEY 0.2837 9.2625 147.66 5 PS12 ZBIGNIEW BRACH 4.3184 9.5171 143.11 6 PS666 ANDY BOND 0.3716 9.6088 104.19 7 PS35 IAN CLEMINSHAW 1.0825 9.7233 150.18 8 PS63 JOE STEVENS 0.5267 9.8055 139.07 9 PS67 CHRIS GOODALE 0.3615 9.9525 136.87 True Street qualifying Position Driver R.T. E.T. MPH 1 TS77 JURGEN VALLONS 1.8435 9.6846 158.48 2 TS34 GARY CARR 0.3225 9.8166 148.59 3 TS88 JOE BRISTOW 0.4110 10.1993 140.71 4 TS59 BEAVIS ALLEN 0.7603 10.9113 124.22 5 TS1 MARK BIGGERS 0.7692 10.9193 139.39 6 TS11 JUSTIN WOOLNER 0.9290 11.2814 125.24 7 TS368 CHRIS ROYLANCE 0.7076 11.9806 117.61 8 TS800 ROBERT GARVEY 0.6754 12.6888 114.92 9 TS998 JOE KELLETT 0.3586 14.0197 99.49 10 TS999 LEAH KELLETT 0.2728 14.4499 103.29 Eibach Front Wheel Drive qualifying Position Driver R.T. E.T. MPH 1 FWD550 STEEVE DURRANTE 1.2642 8.8944 169.17 2 FWD169 WENDALL BRAND 0.5660 9.0751 155.27 3 FWD11 PAUL ATKINSON 0.5601 9.6122 166.08 4 FWD566 RICHARD BATTY 2.1552 9.9335 155.26 5 FWD69 MICHAEL CLARKE 0.8876 10.1744 147.21 6 FWD13 ENRICO SCHAEFER 0.5905 10.1790 136.87 7 FWD579 NICOLAS HACKIERE 1.4966 10.4144 124.18 8 FWD1 STEPHEN RAY 0.7776 10.6831 139.46 9 FWD990 CLARK APPLETON 0.8646 10.6836 141.22 10 FWD112 JACOB BAILEY 0.4290 10.7223 139.84 11 FWD450 JOE GREEN 1.1042 10.7590 139.84 12 FWD211 GINO DE JONG 1.5777 10.8406 136.54 13 FWD269 JOREL WELLS 0.7460 10.8787 129.59 14 FWD17 DARREN DEWHURST 0.3198 10.9316 132.63 15 FWD54 CARL GOLDSMITH 0.4468 10.9520 132.88 16 FWD15 MATT DAVISON 0.2990 10.9657 129.82 17 FWD52 AHMED JAMSHAID 1.9688 11.0289 137.84 18 FWD14 LUIS SILVA 0.7770 11.0434 126.29 19 FWD216 CALVIN SKERRITT 0.4716 11.1387 131.09 20 FWD603 ADAM BRADY 1.0503 11.1450 126.35 21 FWD114 ALLAN DUTHIE 0.6854 11.1963 142.48 22 FWD383 ADRIAN SOLLY 0.3656 11.2242 130.96 23 FWD28 SAGAR JAGESAR 2.4411 11.2583 129.41 24 FWD315 SAM CHISHOLM-BROWN 0.1861 11.2877 131.05 25 FWD444 SIMON BLACKBURN 0.5735 11.2997 120.89 26 FWD462 SAM LLOYD 0.8560 11.4523 118.86 27 FWD987 LISETTE DE KONING 1.1892 11.4604 122.88 28 FWD77 IAN MILNE 0.5252 11.5265 131.45 29 FWD669 OLIVER ST QUITIN 0.5211 11.5373 119.81 30 FWD27 EDWARD KEECH 1.2473 11.5744 118.07 31 FWD180 C. MARIE-FRANCOISE 1.8663 11.6320 127.23 32 FWD111 JORDAN KEELAN 0.8717 11.8017 127.43 33 FWD234 JOSHUA HOLMES 0.1324 11.8839 122.55 34 FWD12 MARCUS SCHMIDT 1.0461 11.9413 146.17 35 FWD777 CYRIL JUGON 0.5355 11.9991 123.57 36 FWD846 DANIEL MALTON 0.7453 12.3239 128.32 37 FWD21 LEE OPENSHAW 0.2142 12.3412 112.38 38 FWD404 BRAD MORGAN 1.3150 12.4358 113.62 39 FWD163 ANDY NICHOLLS 0.6386 12.6475 129.89 40 FWD76 CARL HARTLEY 2.9297 12.6709 94.66 41 FWD988 NICK GAY 0.2974 12.9471 102.20 42 FWD99 DAVE DUTHIE 1.3640 12.985 131.77 43 FWD920 PHILIP REEVES 0.5944 13.8047 108.04 44 FWD16 DEAN BOTTRIELL 0.5647 14.2775 76.42 45 FWD33 T. MIDDENDORF 1.7422 14.779 55.02 46 FWD999 ALEX SITCHBURY 0.6142 15.1798 83.18 47 FWD360 SIMON CROWLEY 0.6962 15.339 95.83 48 FWD956 NATHAN BIRCH 0.6967 15.9085 86.87 49 FWD445 KAIN KENNEDY 0.7240 16.4864 61.70 6 Cylinder qualifying Position Driver R.T. E.T. MPH 1 6C85 PAUL DZIUBEK 2.2599 7.9789 187.38 2 6C641 MARK MOSELEY 5.2541 8.7430 163.68 3 6C677 GARY GOODING 1.7754 8.7771 124.92 4 6C678 REGIS LA CAER 1.2878 9.5113 162.46 5 6C18 RALF POHL 0.3116 10.0032 149.12 6 6C69 GRAEME COOK 1.1653 11.7263 123.43 7 6C79 MIKE WHITTAKER 0.6623 12.9015 120.79 8 6C1308 JAMES WILLDAY 1.7826 18.1115 43.80 Webster Race Engineering 4 Cylinder qualifying Position Driver R.T. E.T. MPH 1 4C120 STEVE GUIREY 1.1681 9.1489 146.74 2 4C771 CLIVE FULCHER 2.1980 9.1753 154.69 3 4C298 ARNDT PUTZMANN 1.4400 9.5218 150.64 4 4C1 CHRIS TODD 0.7504 9.7021 141.15 5 4C53 ANTHONY PONCE 1.3910 9.9265 148.09 6 4C73 KEVIN JENKINS 1.5581 10.1444 119.63 7 4C649 GINO BERNADINE 1.4320 10.2853 134.42 8 4C110 PAUL JORDAN 0.5492 10.3011 147.18 9 4C126 ADAM SKINNER 0.3847 10.4483 132.84 10 4C770 RICHARD WEBB 0.7054 10.4653 126.29 11 4C12 DAVE REED 2.0117 10.5646 141.25 12 4C281 DAVID CROWHURST 0.4645 10.6153 127.27 13 4C100 JAMES WOOTTON 0.8686 10.7850 130.95 14 4C111 PAULS MAGS 1.0551 10.9036 123.19 15 4C52 IAN CLARK 0.3687 10.9339 123.86 16 4C174 DOMINIK SCHLEIPER 0.5620 11.0593 119.96 17 4C365 DAVID SWIFT 0.4933 11.0962 128.46 18 4C61 PETER SHATTOCK 0.5817 11.1275 118.71 19 4C558 PHIL WEST 0.6177 11.1717 122.40 20 4C11 DARREN SCANNELL 0.1642 11.2414 122.21 21 4C40 CHRIS LOCKE 1.0114 11.4392 126.2 22 4C69 JASON TURNOCK 0.4942 11.6484 117.78 23 4C456 CLARKE HILLYARD 0.4294 12.1134 108.74 24 4C23 PAUL HUGHES 0.9009 12.2957 114.51 25 4C161 DONALD HARVEY 0.5661 12.6065 104.46 26 4C464 JONNY MARRIAGE 0.6322 13.0433 100.11 27 4C98 VITO VERSLUYS 0.7800 13.3607 99.44 28 4C71 PASCAL AMODRU 1.0454 14.3041 92.54 29 4C60 DANNY PIKE 0.6488 14.5537 78.96 30 4C613 STEWART TAYLOR 5.1715 18.4179 57.76 31 4C13 BOBA KETTLER 1.9704 21.4779 31.46 32 4C703 MIKEE SINGH 1.5472 24.2759 34.71 20:55 Bye for Johnny Marriage in 4 Cylinder, 13.1992/96.67. Michael Clarke followed in his FWD Fiesta. 10.1744 at a huge 147.21. Good for #5 spot at that point. Justin Woolner next for True Street, #6 going in to this run, squealing tyres at the hit and 11.2814/125.24 at the stripe. 4 Cylinder racer Ian Clark with an 11.2856/120.95. Big tyre spin for Arndt Putzmann, Beetle turned left and just crossed the forbidden zone, stopped about 200 feet out and pushed back. Adrian Solly next with the L8 Goose FWD Audi, tyres squealing all the way, 11.6841/127.01. Zbigniew Brach followed in his Pro Street Ford, #5 going in to this session, 9.5171/143.11, stayed in place. Sam Chisholm Brown and Luis Silva matched up in an all-FWD pair. 11.3329/128.67 for Sam and 11.0434/126.29 for Luis. Alex Sitchbury pushed back with a big water leak. Carl Hartley took the bye, big shower of sparks from under the car at the eighth, track checked and clean-up called. Done for the day, stay tuned for qualifying standings and then today's gallery. 20:50 Gary Carr and Jorel Wells next, True Street and FWD, both with blackstriping tyres, Gary there in 10.3548/144.77 and jorel 10.8787/129.59. Matt Davison for FWD next with Paul Jordon for 4 Cylinder, great 10.9657/129.82 for Matt and equally good 10.3011/147.18 for Paul. Marcin Blauth for Pro Street up against Calvin Skerritt for FWD. fantastic run for Marcin! 7.9100/182.88. 11.1387/131.09 for Calvin. Clarke Hillyard for 4 Cylinder up against FWD Richard Batty, 12.5463/108.56 played 9.9335/155.26. Jacob Bailey and Ahmed Jamshaid in an all-FWD match, Jacob there first at 10.7223/139.84 to Ahmed's 12.2197/134.91. FWD v 4 Cylinder next, Adam Brady and Dave Swift. Adam there first 11.3539/119.16 to 12.0302/121.23. 20:35 Steve Durrante with a 9.0656/164.29 from his FWD Honda, smoke right on the stripe but all OK. Robert Garvey for True Street and Gino de Jong for FWD next up, Robert rolled through stage, 11.2833/118.67 for Gino. 6 Cylinder racer Lisette de Koning and 6 Cylinder racer Ralf Pohl next up, shake and bounce for Ralf and his chute deployed, did the whole pass dragging his chute. 11.1507/119.81 for Lisa. Ed Keech for FWD and James Wootton for 4 Cylinder next round the corner. Ed shut it off and pulled over about 200 feet out, James' Beetle did a hard right, pedalled and pulled it back and the car turned right again, shut off and idled through. Danny Pike and Vito Versluys side byt side for 4 Cylinder, both missed the same gear, 14.5537/78.96 for Danny and 13.3607/99.44 for Vito. 20:30 Next around the corner Jimmy Ålund in his Pro Stock. 150-foot burnout drew cheers and whistles from the crowd. It went down so well that he did a second burnout. Word was that he was scrubbbing in new tyres. Kept going after the second burnout, car got a bounce on and he rolled to a halt right on the stripe. Eurodragster.com sponsor Jon Webster followed in his Pro Mod, right behind him out of the lanes Chris Orthodoxou in his Pro Mod, both running in Pro Doorslammer. Jon to sixty in 1.0620, 4.3099/174.23 at the eighth, visbly accelerating hard in the second half and 6.5226/221.34 at the stripe. 1.2837 to sixty for Chris, on and off the gas, 5.2831/130.65 at the eighth and 8.0633/182.83 at the quarter. First outing for Paula Atkin in her turbo Pro Mod, in the other lane Marcus Perman in his Pro Mod, again both running in Pro Doorslammer. Paula's car really wanted to move out of stage but she kept a hold of it. 1.2000 to sixty for Paula, 1.1128 for Marcus, puffs of smoke from Paula's pipes, shut it off before the stripe 10.3011/86.20. Marcus off it at 330 feet, to the eighth in 4.6963/127.74 and 8.4985/105.21 at the stripe. Eurodragster.com sponsor Chris Isaacs and Bobby Wallace next, both Pro Mods and both in Pro Doorslammer. A big Thank You to Bonnie Wallace for the cakes earlier. Bobby with help from Roger Johansson's tuner Alex. 1.1230 to sixtu for Bobby, 1.0507 for Vhrois blackstriping, Bobby's Willys took a right turn and he shut it off. Chris to the eighth in 4.4271/175.67 still blackstriping and drove it all the way, 6.4398/224.74. 11.2828/73.95 for Bobby. VP Racing Fuels Pro Doorslammer qualifying Position Driver R.T. E.T. MPH 1 PD71 MATTIAS WULCAN 0.1443 5.8698 234.84 2 PD4071 JAN ERICSSON 0.0576 6.0810 242.50 3 PD2933 LENN LINDELL 0.1313 6.1168 218.99 4 PD70 CHRIS ISAACS 0.1537 6.4398 224.74 5 PD507 JON WEBSTER 0.1925 6.5226 221.34 6 PD17 FREDRIK FAGERSTROM 0.3313 6.5425 214.87 7 PD3517 ANDREAS SJODIN 0.6251 6.5622 226.65 8 PD4234 CAROLINE STRAND -0.1176 6.7436 160.17 9 PD175 MICHAEL NORD 0.2538 7.2565 147.19 10 PD45 CHRIS ORTHODOXOU 0.9264 8.0633 182.83 11 PD81 SIMON BARLOW 0.2077 8.1064 136.14 12 PD449 PEL NORMAN 0.4728 8.1659 170.46 13 PD139 JOHN SLEATH 0.1680 8.2515 169.19 14 PD28 MARCUS PERMAN 0.5352 8.4985 105.21 15 PD51 JIMMY ALUND 0.0451 8.5436 89.43 16 PD1953 JOHN TEBENHAM -0.1018 9.2976 97.57 17 PD911 ANDRES ARNOVER 0.4305 9.4111 95.26 18 PD54 PAULA ATKIN 0.6116 10.3011 86.20 19 PD21 MICHAEL GULLQVIST 1.1321 10.8723 66.67 20 PD22 BOBBY WALLACE -0.0015 11.2828 73.95 21 PD2771 CHARLIE OSTEDT 3.7828 12.8673 65.51 22 PD38 ANDY WRIGHT JR 0.1493 19.7219 39.38 20:10 Initial word after David Vegter's motor stopped yesterday was that the engine damage was sufficient to stop him competing maybe for the rest of the season but David is up here colour-commentating and says that the race is on to build up the spare block and run the Pro Mod at the FIA/FIM Main Event here next weekend. 9.9525/136.87 for Chris Goodale in Pro Street. Fellow Pro Street racer Dave Mahoney next, at that point #4, 9.5056/143.43, stayed #4. 20:05 The Last Chance Saloon runs continued, Regis le Caer with a 9.5113/162.46 in his 6 Cylinder Audi, Pascal Amodru with a 14.4031/92.54 in his 4 Cylinder Split. 10.1993/140.71 for Joe Bristow in his True Street VW. Mark Biggers next up for True Street, in the other lane Dave Duthie with his FWD Vauxhall. 10.9193/139.39 for Mark and a 12.9850/131.77 for Dave. Mark Todd followed with the Six Appeal Aston Martin running in Super Street, a nice 8.1804/172.41 with a few pedals and moves left and right so more to come yet. 19:50 First outings for Mike Whittaker and Sylvie Lavaud in 6 Cylinder and 4 Cylinder respectively. Sylvie with problems staging, pushed back, 12.9015/1020.79 for Mike. Next up the long-awaited appearance of Jurgen Vallons in his True Street Lamborghini, 6 Cylinder racer James Willday in the other lane. Planned gentle launch for Jurgen but still 9.6846/158.48, James' motor sounded to be mixing cylinders, 18.1115/43.80. Carl Goldsmith with a fourth attempt at recording a time, big thanks to Carl for the offer of a loan of a laptop for the day when he heard about one of our racing laptops being difficult. 10.9520/132.88 for Carl, in at #13, in the other lane Frederic Dussart lost drive off the line. dave Mace into #2 in Pro Street wit his Vauxhall, 8.1935/165.47, brief pedal off the line so more in there. Jose San Martin with a promising launch in his 6 Cylinder VW but shut it off before half track and rolled to a halt just past the line, the clocks had however timed out. Dan Frost lost drive off the line and was pushed back. 4 Cylinder racer Mike Singh next up in his Subaru, tyres blackstriped and shut off passing the Tree, 24.2759/34.71 19:20 First out Errol Huell for FWD... smoke from Errol's Vauxhall then a trail of fluid, car moved right but Errol pulled it back and kept it off the rail but then did a 180, the car slid backwards into the guardrail at what looked like quite a high speed. Errol got himself out of the car and walked to meet the paramedics and other safety crew who moved very quickly. 16:15 Today's Big Bracket will not take place. There will be a Big Bracket tomorrow with double prize money, no less than £10,000 to the winner. Racers who were entered for today can enter for tomorrow for full prize money, or can use today's entry fee and earn half prize money. Buybacks will be available after the first round. Heads-up classes will be all-run tomorrow. Open qualifying for heads-up classes will take place today should the track dry, and we would be running to 21:00. Spectators who had a one-day ticket for today can use it tomorrow (Sunday). 07:45 Good morning from Santa Pod Raceway for our coverage of the Doorslammers brought to you in association with John Woolfe Racing. That noise on the caravan roof at 03:00 this morning wasn't the end result of Colin Millar armed with slices of bread but rain. The track got quite the wash but the crew are already out there wortking on the surface. Today's plan is to bring you reports of the on-track action including Big Bracket 1 results, qualifying standings in Heads Up classes, and E1 results in Pro Doorslammer and FWD. Heads-up qualifying is run in Open format, which means turn up and run when you fancy it rather than holding formal sessions, so we will update the standings on a regular basis. There will of course be a gallery at the end of each day too. Simon will be back tomorrow with more pit notes to add to yesterday's. No webcast from us today, Santa Pod Raceway are streaming the event on YouTube Live (Santa Pod TV) and Facebook (Santa Pod Raceway); you can find a link to the YouTube on the Event Index. Please note that the YouTube page will not, of course, show the live broadcast until it commences so just keep hitting Refresh. In the same way that we would not expect Santa Pod to entertain queries or comments about our own webcasts, we won't respond to queries or comments about SPR's webcast. A big Good Morning to the Eurodragsterholics, especially Kai Plathan and the faithful Otto in Vehkataipale, Finland, and Ivar Kolberg who is tuned in from Norway. Keep an eye on this page and when the wheels start to turn we'll start to bring you the news. In the meantime why not check out yesterday's pit notes and gallery courtesy of Simon, Julian and Diana. Reports and pictures ©Eurodragster.com |