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19:45

Today's pictures have now been posted, you can view them via the Event Index page.

That's the end of our coverage of the Custom Car Magazine Allstar Nationals, thanks very much for tuning in.

Thanks very much for their help and hospitality this weekend to Ozzy Ewing and all of the APIRA race and track officials; Janet and Wayne Schreier and Simon Day of Shakespeare County Raceway's timing crew; Lee and Emma Child; track announcers John Price and Jerry Cookson; Tracey Cowen; Darren Prentice, Jon Cross and John Hackney; Yvonne and Kirstie Tramm; Pat and Stephen Talbot; Mark Pointer and Sharon; Cath and Tig Napier; Paul Venners; and the Coffee Wagon.

Eurodragster.com's next Event Coverage will be from next weekend's pre-FIA European Finals Peak Performance Day and Run What You Brung at Santa Pod Raceway.

This weekend's coverage was brought to you in association with American Car Imports.

17:30

Here are the 2005 Ultimate Power Champions courtesy of Simon:

Super Modified: Ellis Racing
Super Pro ET: John Everitt
Pro ET: Ron Bartlett
Sportsman ET: Ian Petrie
Super Comp: Paul Knight
Super Gas: Frank Mason
Super Street: John Grant
Street Eliminator: Colin Lazenby
Junior Dragster: Jay Hauser
Wild Bunch: Sarah Howells
Outlaw Anglia: Paul Wright
VW Pro: Glynn Morgan
VW Sportsman: Chris Bray
VW Alternate Engine: Spencer Tramm

Top Fuel Bike: Steve Woollatt
Funny Bike: Chris Hall
Pro Stock Bike: Dave Beck
Comp Bike: Gary Jones
Super Street Bike: Steve Venables
9.50 Bike: Fred Furlong
Junior Drag Bike: Harry Steadman
Supertwin Fuel: Chris Stebbings
Supertwin Gas: Andy Smith
Supertwin Modified: Tony Legg
Supertwin Street: Dave Jones

Stay tuned for today's pictures.

17:05

Here are the final results in all classes:

Super Modified: Kev Perkins 7.631/179.76 def. Andy Kirk 7.853/174.30
Super Pro ET: John Everitt (7.89) 17.236/39.19 def. Rick Cooke (8.50) 8.700/132.73 red light
Pro ET: Bob Molden (10.30) 10.069/133.59 def. Neil Hunter (10.55) 10.574/130.10 red light
Sportsman ET: Steve Phillips (12.53) 12.608/109.74 def. Dan Page (14.10) 14.053/88.70 breakout
Super Comp: Paul Knight 9.251/134.79 def. Chris Johnson 9.200/145.01
Super Gas: Conrad Stanley 9.939/136.30 def. Spencer Tramm 9.881/117.95 breakout
Super Street: Leigh Morris 11.101/117.70 def. Paul Spiers 11.231/122.49
Street Eliminator: Andy Frost 8.231/175.16 def. Colin Lazenby 27.570/30.12
Junior Dragster: Collin Morrice (9.45) 9.496/66.86 def. Holly Mitchell (9.40) 9.522/69.98
Wild Bunch: Phil Sweeney (13.18) 13.180/92.42 def. Chris Hartnell (8.95) 8.916/145.00 breakout
Outlaw Anglia: Paul Wright 7.979/175.60 def. Pete Moore 9.246/147.36
VW Pro: Glynn Morgan (11.55) 11.679/102.40 def. Nigel Green (11.80) 12.988/105.83
VW Sportsman: Chris Bray (18.30) 19.102/55.96 def. Holly Baldwin (17.33) 17.403/73.94
VW Alternate Engine: Spencer Tramm (9.87) 10.475/107.84 def. Darryn Coleman (11.70) 12.238/109.40

Top Fuel Bike: Steve Woollatt 6.508/213.93 bye, Steve Carey no show
Funny Bike: Tim Blakemore 7.173/180.04 def. Chris Hall broke
Pro Stock Bike: Dave Beck 7.168/184.27 def. Len Paget no time
Comp Bike: Gary Jones 7.690/180.97 def. Roland Chaplain 8.474/148.18 red light
Super Street Bike: Steve Venables 7.994/192.87 def. Dave Smith 8.690/144.47
9.50 Bike: Fred Furlong 9.667/144.44 def. Steve Coombs 9.672/138.91
Supertwin Fuel: Chris Stebbings 8.868/125.03 bye
Supertwin Gas: Andy Smith 9.523/138.85 def. John Floyd 10.781/119.02
Supertwin Modified: Tony Legg 9.316/152.83 def. John Hackney 10.031/137.51
Supertwin Street: Dave Jones 10.088/132.51 def. Ian Radanke 11.280/130.36
Junior Drag Bike: Harry Steadman (9.60) 9.870/60.24 def. Scott Collier (13.00) 17.450/32.33

Congratulations to Phil Sweeney who took the Eurodragster.com/LA Racing Parts Perfect ET Award to add to the Wild Bunch win.

Stay tuned and we will shortly bring you the list of this year's Ultimate Power Champions, and Sharkman is working on today's pictures.

16:15

Roger Goring's final run of the weekend in the Firestorm Jet Funny Car was a 6.302/252.48 preceded by a very fierce flame and thunder show which tried to punt the webcam across Race Control!

Pro Modified match race 4

Gordon Appleton 8.225/120.86 def. Danny Cockerill 6.643/215.18 red light

Side-by-side hundred-foot burnouts again, Danny jumped the start and went straight as you like, no sign of shake whilst Gordon hit shake at sixty feet, he tried to drive through it as the car headed for the guardrail but got off the throttle before half-track.

We're now up to finals in all classes, stay tuned and we will bring you the results as soon as the last final has run.

15:55

Super Street eliminations round 3 winners: Paul Spiers 11.183/122.37, Leigh Morris 10.993/120.67 bye

Super Gas eliminations round 3 winners: Conrad Stanley 9.987/120.77, Spencer Tramm staged (bye)

VW Sportsman eliminations round 3 winners: Holly Baldwin (17.33) 18.611/72.35, Chris Bray (16.40) 18.355/73.01 bye

Outlaw Anglia eliminations round 3 winners: Pete Moore 10.290/99.52 bye, Paul Wright 7.656/178.34

Congratulations to Mark Pointer who got into the sevens in his race against Paul Wright, 7.938/171.93.

VW Sportsman eliminations round 1 winners: Darryn Coleman (12.00) 12.103/97.20, Spencer Tramm (9.87) 10.189/115.14

Next up are the final Pro Mod match race and the Firestorm Jet FC.

15:15

Pro ET eliminations round 4 winners: Bob Molden (10.00) 10.309/132.84 bye, Neil Hunter (10.55) 10.570/130.09

Junior Dragster eliminations round 4 winners: Collin Morrice (9.42) 9.482/69.77 bye, Holy Mitchell (9.40) 9.429/70.98

9.50 Bike eliminations round 4 winners: Steve Coombs 9.750/133.41, Fred Furlong 9.710/144.64 bye

Steve Coombs took a Battle of the Brothers with Paul.

Sportsman ET eliminations round 3 winners: Dan Page (14.15) 14.147/96.11, Stephen Phillips (12.53) 12.579/110.04

Super Pro ET eliminations round 3 winners: John Everitt (7.82) 7.918/166.96, Rick Cooke (8.49) 8.520/151.68

Wild Bunch eliminations round 3 winners: Phil Sweeney (13.15) 13.281/99.80, Chris Hartnell (8.95) 8.928/148.57 bye (Helen Smythe no show)

Super Street Bike eliminations round 3 winners: Steve Venables 8.044/191.35, Dave Smith 8.409/185.54

There was a cloud of smoke and flame from Wayne Bradley's bike in the shutdown area after his race with Dave Smith, Wayne is just fine but we have a small clean-up. Stay tuned.

15:00

VW Sportsman eliminations round 2 winners: Paul Herbert (14.80) 15.039/76.46, Chris Bray (16.40) 16.744/85.72, Holly Baldwin (17.33) 17.351/75.00

Supertwin Modified eliminations round 2 winners: John Hackney 9.897/139.73, Tony Legg 9.507/151.54 bye

Supertwin Street eliminations round 2 winners: Dave Jones 10.250/133.83 bye, Ian Radanke 10.567/133.24

Supertwin Gas eliminations round 2 winners: Andy Smith 9.450/137.14, John Floyd 9.515/138.86

Junior Drag Bike eliminations round 2 winners: Scott Collier (13.00) 13.820/41.47 bye, Harry Steadman (9.60) 9.603/65.69

Super Comp eliminations round 2 winners: Chris Johnson 9.107/137.67, Paul Knight 8.925/158.20 bye

Street Eliminator eliminations round 2 winners: Andy Frost 8.230/174.74, Colin Lazenby 17.648/59.27 bye

Andy Frost's race against Ian Hook must be the quickest-ever side-by-side Street Eliminator race as Fatty ran an 8.368/161.29, well done guys!

VW Pro eliminations round 2 winners: Nigel Green (11.80) 12.331/104.31, Glynn Morgan staged (bye)

Funny Bike eliminations round 1 winners: Chris Hall staged bye (Stu Chamberlain no show), Tim Blakemore 6.952/179.27

Comp Bike eliminations round 2 winners: Gary Jones 7.527/178.55, Roland Chaplain 8.379/156.48

14:30

Super Street Bike eliminations round 2 winners: Steve Venables 8.362/193.17, Jamie Sneddon 9.413/112.18, Wayne Bradley 8.746/175.72, Dave Smith 8.255/184.20 bye

Super Street eliminations round 2 winners: John Grant 11.001/123.30, Leigh Morris 11.203/111.39, Paul Spiers 10.903/124.55 bye

Outlaw Anglia eliminations round 2 winners: Mark Pointer 8.018/170.34 bye, Paul Wright 7.860/174.76, Pete Moore 9.440/147.18 bye

Paul Wright's Pop trailed smoke all the way down the track, with the customary far-from-straight run we were worried that the car would appear out of the smoke sideways or worse still upside down, but Paul ran just fine and nothing was found on the track.

14:10

Super Modified eliminations round 1 winners: Andy Kirk 7.905/174.63, Kev Perkins 7.643/180.07 bye

14:05

Junior Dragster eliminations round 3 winners: Holly Mitchell (9.40) 9.468/70.20, Collin Morrice (9.39) 9.495/67.47, Anna Stanley (14.20) 14.309/44.12 bye

9.50 Bike eliminations round 3 winners: Fred Furlong 23.000/45.18, Paul Coombs 9.658/124.40, Steve Coombs 10.169/142.56 bye

Supertwin Fuel final: Chris Stebbings 8.868/125.03 bye

Chris was off the throttle at about 900 feet so there is plenty more to come, but not at this event as Chris has taken the event win.

Sportsman ET eliminations round 2 winners: Keith Crampton (15.77) 15.860/86.04, Dan Page (14.25) 14.427/82.84, Stephen Phillips (12.55) 12.539/110.12, John Parker (14.00) 14.398/81.83

Wild Bunch eliminations round 2 winners: Roy Wilding (11.95) no time recorded bye (Alec Coe broke after burnout), Chris Hartnell (8.95) 9.045/149.13, Phil Sweeney (13.12) 13.418/95.67, Helen Smythe (10.08) 10.202/129.47 bye

Super Pro ET eliminations round 2 winners: Rick Cooke (8.46) 8.531/150.86 bye, John Everitt (7.82) 8.274/163.29, Martyn Jones (7.70) 7.822/157.17, Mark Flavell (7.10) 7.119/189.20 bye (Ian Hook no show)

Super Gas eliminations round 2 winners: Conrad Stanley 9.933/136.76, Frank Mason 9.956/138.77 bye, Spencer Tramm 9.966/114.36

Frank Mason's win in this round makes him 2005 Ultimate Power Champion in Super Gas.

Trackside conditions are 22.2 C, 64% humidity, 30.06 inches of air.

Simon has given us a Championship update and as a result of eliminations so far today we have some more 2005 Ultimate Power Champions, congratulations to:

Super Street: John Grant
Pro ET: Ron Bartlett
Junior Dragster: Jay Hauser

Super Street Bike: Steve Venables

13:35

Top Fuel Dragster match race 3

Thomas Nataas 5.471/281.46 def. Darryl Bradford 29.568/27.04

A burnout to about thirty feet for Thomas, Darryl chirped the throttle out of the water just to clean the tyres. On the green both cars hooked up, then at about forty feet the rear tyres of the Wright Racing Top Fueller went up in smoke and there was a brief flash of flame - so much smoke that the car disappeared! Thomas hit shake at about fifty feet, 0.940 to sixty feet where the caterpillar tracks are clearly visible, Thomas pedalled at about 100 feet and got back on the throttle, the car drifted towards the guardrail - in fact the tyre marks at about 700 feet can't be more than a yard or two from the armco - but Thomas was obviously determined to put on a show and he stayed with it all the way to the finish line.

13:25

Roger Goring's latest pass in the Firestorm Jet Funny Car was a cracking 6.373/251.38. The flame show on that car is really thumping, stuff falling off the tables here in Race Control, and a couple of fireballs out of the tube, nice one Roger!

13:10

Pro Modified match race 3

Danny Cockerill 6.611/215.71 def. Gordon Appleton 7.448/152.16

Side-by-side burnouts to 100 feet today, on the green Danny's Chevy hooked up and went driving through a small amouth of shake but going straight and hard all the way, Gordon's Camaro hit shake at thirty feet, Gordon tied to drive through it whilst the car headed purposefully for the centre line. Gordon wrenched the car straight, staying on the throttle all the while, and the car headed for the left guardrail but Gordon wasn't getting off it for anything! The track crew were picking up small pieces in Danny's lane but Sharkman at trackside reported that the pieces didn't look like aluminium - word just reached Race Control that the lane is liberally coated with small pieces of one of Danny's rear lights.

The Top Fuel match race has been slightly delayed whilst a rose joint is repaired on the Wright Racing car. Next up is Roger Goring in Firestorm.

12:55

Pro ET eliminations round 3 winners: Rick McCann (10.26) 10.247/124.03, Neil Hunter (10.57) 10.551/130.54, Bob Molden (10.00) 10.243/133.77

Next up are Pro Mod, the Firestorm Jet FC and Top Fuel, stay tuned.

12:50

Junior Drag Bike eliminations round 1 winners: Scott Collier (13.00) 14.661/39.75, Harry Steadman (9.60) 9.632/69.44, Andy Irvine (11.70) 11.903/55.28

Comp Bike eliminations round 1 winners: Vaughan Foster 8.181/170.36, TJ O'Brien 7.833/164.57, Roland Chaplain 8.487/158.94, Gary Jones 7.609/177.17 bye

Pro Stock Bike final: Dave Beck 7.168/184.27 def. Len Paget no time (crossed lanes)

Congratulations to Dave Beck on the first-ever 7.1-second PSB pass outside the USA!

12:40

Super Comp eliminations round 1 winners: Paul Knight 8.965/135.17, Chris Johnson 8.907/153.01, Brian Pateman 9.009/137.51

VW Pro eliminations round 1 winners: Glynn Morgan 11.597/110.27, Martin Taylor (12.42) 12.519/111.41 bye, Nigel Green (11.50) 112.443/105.46 bye

Supertwin Street eliminations round 1 winners: Dave Jones 10.351/132.73, Ian Radanke 10.656/130.91, Neil Dickson 11.745/123.95 bye (Rachael Prevett shut off on line)

Supertwin Modified eliminations round 1 winners: Chris Mott 10.123/141.39, John Hackney 9.959/140.06, Tony Legg 9.302/154.10 bye

Congratulations to Tony Legg who set a new ET record with his 9.302, backed up by yesterday's 9.316.

Supertwin Gas eliminations round 1 winners: Les Harris 9.876/134.84, John Floyd 10.027/135.90, Andy Smith 9.356/140.14 bye (Ian Worthington no show), George Laycock 9.540/141.56

Top Fuel Bike final:

Steve Woollatt 6.508/213.93 bye

Steve Carey broke on Saturday so Steve Woollatt took the bye for the event title. Another straight, strong pass and markers laid down for the European Finals.

12:20

Super Street eliminations round 1 winners: Paul Spiers 11.034/97.38, Brian Huxley 10.837/115.58, Kev Slyfield 10.967/117.59, John Grant 10.901/134.01, Leigh Morris 10.919/121.59 bye

Outlaw Anglia eliminations round 1 winners: Pete Moore 9.428/140.17, Paul Wright 7.826/177.52 bye, Mark Pointer no time, Ray Guy 9.676/138.82 bye (Richard Colby no show)

Aidan Kenny moved out of stage and got a red in his race with Mark Pointer, Mark Pointer then also got a red light whilst still sitting in stage. The Race Director adjudged Mark Pointer the winner.

VW Sportsman eliminations round 1 winners: Chris Bray (16.40) 18.304/72.41, Matt Dolby (16.54) 16.555/78.03, Paul Herbert (14.80) 15.086/77.13, Becky Allen (17.30) 18.974/70.93 bye (Adele Atherton no show), Holly Baldwin (17.310 17.434/69.66, Robert Austwick (19.60) 20.0875/65.21 bye

Street Eliminator eliminations round 1 winners: Andy Frost 8.261/177.31, Colin Lazenby 8.155/183.37, Ian Hook 8.414/170.47

Colin Lazenby backed up yesterday's 8.120 and set another new speed record in this round, well done Colin! Congratulations to Andy Frost on a new PB ET to match yesterday's PB speed. Well done also to Wilf Stacey who got out of shape and had his car sideways and up on two wheels in his match-up with Ian Hook, a great driving job by Wilf kept the car out of trouble.

12:00

Super Street Bike eliminations round 1 winners: Wayne Bradley 8.824/171.14, Fiona Moore 9.441/157.84 bye (Richard Stubbins no show), Jamie Sneddon 11.113/121.18, Mark Fisher 8.496/166.98 bye (Nick Moore no show), Dave Smith 8.087/182.82 bye (Richard Beck no show), Graham Dance 7.957/183.64 bye (Nigel Barker no show), Steve Venables 7.900/192.98 bye

An interesting race between Jamie Sneddon and Ivan Birch, Ivan's bike bogged off the line, Jamie shot up the track then was off the throttle at half track, Jamie turned round to see where Ivan was, he gestured at Ivan, Ivan was back on the throttle and almost chased Jamie down!

11:55

Sportsman ET eliminations round 1 winners: Keith Crampton (15.77) 15.774/84.93, Jonathan McGarrigle (13.80) 13.892/101.31, Stephen Philips (12.52) 12.604/109.99, Dan Page (14.30) 14.362/80.39, John Parker (14.00) 14.247/95.77, Cath Bishop (14.70) 14.717/92.74, Johnny Walker (13.00) 13.027/105.25

Congratulations to Jonathan McGarrigle and Dan Page who won their first-ever rounds in competition.

Wild Bunch eliminations round 1 winners: Phil Sweeney (13.12) 13.327/90.35, Chris Hartnell (8.74) 9.360/146.97 bye (Trace Froome no show), Alec Coe (8.40) 8.699/165.11 bye (Steve Field broke after burnout), Tony Smith (11.44) 11.561/111.72 bye, Helen Smythe (10.08) 10.127/122.97, Neil Ward (8.80) 9.141/146.24 bye (Sid Slattery no show), Roy Wilding (11.94) 11.983/114.20 bye (Mike Creswell no show)

Super Pro ET eliminations round 1 winners: Rick Cooke (8.46) 8.498/151.23, Martyn Jones (7.68) 7.731/167.40, Ian Hook (8.80) 9.051/165.96, John Everitt (7.80) 7.910/166.94, Mark Flavell (7.05) 7.145/189.50, Pat Talbot (7.88) 7.899/172.08 bye (Derek Flynn no show), Nigel Turner 9.629/127.77 (8.50) bye (Mick Cheley no show)

Super Gas eliminations round 1 winners: Frank Mason 9.909/127.82, Ron Bartlett 9.882/117.71, Brian Pateman 9.996/139.82, Conrad Stanley 9.916/127.42, Spencer Tramm 10.054/111.13

A big Hello to Nev and Libby Mottershead, purveyors of 9.8-second passes and amazing curries, who we know are tuned in. I'll have a word with Rune later, guys.

11:15

Pro ET eliminations round 2 winners: Neil Hunter (10.57) 10.610/124.33, Bob Molden (10.00) 10.206/133.07, Rich Davies (11.80) 11.822/109.12 bye, John Atkinson (9.15) 9.244/127.37, Rick McCann (10.29) 10.258/121.75, Ron Bartlett (9.70) 9.848/123.88

Junior Dragster eliminations round 2 winners: Collin Morrice (9.37) 9.464/63.47, Scott Hauser (7.95) 8.167/79.79, Holly Mitchell (9.40) 9.443/70.42, Jay Hauser (7.90) 8.025/68.49, Anna Stanley (14.10) 14.201/44.55

9.50 Bike eliminations round 2 winners: Fred Furlong 9.554/125.34, Steve Coombs 9.976/116.06, Paul Coombs 9.516/125.73, Andy Bird 9.586/127.55, Chris Jones 10.211/120.53 bye

Trackside conditions are 20.7 C, 69% humidity, and 30.06 inches of air.

10:30

In his capacity as Ultimate Power Championship Co-ordinator, Simon has kindly given us a list of those Championships which have already been won this weekend. Congratulations to 2005 Ultimate Power Champions:

Super Modified: Ellis Racing
Street Eliminator: Colin Lazenby
VW Pro: Glynn Morgan

Top Fuel Bike: Steve Woollatt
Pro Stock Bike: Dave Beck
Comp Bike: Gary Jones
Supertwin Fuel: Chris Stebbings
Supertwin Modified: Tony Legg
Supertwin Street: Dave Jones

We'll have the full list shortly after the event finishes.

Stay tuned.

9:30

Good morning and welcome from Shakespeare County Raceway. It's race day at the Custom Car Magazine Allstar Nationals and we're here to bring you all the news in association with American Car Imports.

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

It's a beautiful day again today, sunny and warm. Weather conditions at trackside are 19.9 C, 72% humidity, and 30.06 inches of air.

The traditional raceday Hello to our US correspondents Ed O'Connell and Kathy Hileman who are tuned in from Rye, NH. Hope you are enjoying the coverage guys, even if if is not a public holiday on that side of The Pod...your turn will come.

We missed it at the time in all the frantic typing to keep up with qualifying standings but congratulations to VW Sportsman racer Paul Day who took the Eurodragster.com/Speedflow Perfect Light Award with a 0.000 Reaction Time in yesterday's first VW Sportsman qualifier. Paul is £50 better off and the Award has been reset to £50 for the FIA European Finals.

If you tuned into the webcam before we switched it on this morning, you may wonder about the picture which was on display all night. What you were looking at was a practice session by the Allstars Mule Stunt Performance Team who are rumoured to be appearing at the European Finals instead of Jason Finn. The team were rehearsing with their new member, Fuel Altered driver Mickey Moore, who being no stranger to peril willingly joined the team of Lee Child, Darren Prentice, Jon Cross and John Hackney. We understand that Moo discovered a new and different appreciation for Santa Pod's Race Director Darren who has apparently also taken up bodybuilding. Stay tuned for more details on the Mules' next appearance.

A potentially worrying sight in the pits this morning was Ian Hook of Street Eliminator team FB Racing holding a plate of salad. Luckily it transpired that he was only carrying it to the waste bin.

Racing is scheduled to start at 11:00 so stay tuned and as soon as the action starts we'll bring you all the results.