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The first outing of the year was to the Brentwood Racing Car Show on 8 January 2005. While I was there I was very fortunate indeed to be introduced to double FIA Top Fuel Champion Andy Carter by Andy Rogers aka Tog of Eurodragster.com. Andy C is posing here with his family in front of the Santa Pod Raceway display cars. |
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Still too early in the year for racing so on to Alexandra Palace in north London on 20 February for the Xtreme Wheels Show and very good it was too. This was what greeted you as you entered the show, the Santa Pod exhibition funny car in the Palm Court. |
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This car would have made the journey up to Ally Pally worthwhile on its own - Danny Cockerill's gleaming new Pro Mod. It won best appearing race car and quite right too. Fortunately we were to discover later that it goes every bit as well as it looks. |
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Lawrie Gatehouse has made a major
contribution to the sport in my view by masterminding and driving through the
creation of the Nostalgia Fuel Altered Association. |
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The first actual track action for me this
year was the Peak Performance Day at Santa Pod on Saturday 19 March. This
meeting was best known for the 7 second runs in Super Street Bike by Steve
Venables but of course I didn't take any pictures of that. Doh!
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This is Steve Wells burning out in the time-honoured way in his Ford Pop pickup. Unfortunately Steve got some fluid under the tyres on this run and side-swiped the wall causing the damage to the car shown on the right.
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As you might expect the B&J Race
Cars' Top Fuel Dragster is a favourite of mine. The shot on the left
shows Bill Felstead making some adjustments to the car. |
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Still on the nostalgia theme, it was great to see Money Hungry back on the track, Mick Smith is the new owner of this historic car which was imported from the States in the 1970s by the late Tony Dickson. |
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Ian Caseley's Roadzombie 2 jet dragster
blasted both ends of his personal best with a 7.222/230.73 lap. The right rear
tyre shredded when the chute was deployed causing some damage to the
car. |
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As we saw above, Danny Cockerill sure got the show part of 'show'n'go'. How about shakedown runs of 9.379/92.19, 7.392/206.34 and 7.067/202.59 for the go? |
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If you are going to go drag racing it must be rather handy if your old man builds race cars for a living. Scott Hauser is the lucky lad in that position and he is seen here with his dad, Acceleration Archive contributor Geof Hauser. The two of them had obviously decided to turn the wick up a bit and have a bit of fun. Scott's runs of 7.612 and 7.687 seconds were way below the official 7.90 index. |
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Steve Nash ran a best of 8.256/173.65 in his 598 cubic inch Wildcat Street Eliminator Mercury Cougar. He certainly needed the help of his team (including Rob Loaring of ICE Automotive, centre) to accomplish this tricky reversing manoeuvre between the grandstand and one of the merchandising stalls. |
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Mark Pointer drives the beautiful Hooligan Super Pro ET entry which ran in the 8.6's at 152 mph. |
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