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Peak Performance Day, Santa Pod Raceway, 23 May 2010 |
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Vic Hammond is the owner of the Speed Demon slingshot. Vic shares the driving of the car with Sam Freeman who tells me that Vic was in the seat on this occasion. |
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This is Billy Gane's Fat Pack Racing 461 cubic inch AC Cobra Pro ET entry lifting its wheels off the line and really making those wrinkle wall slicks dig in. |
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Dan Larsen was testing his Top Methanol Funny Car prior to the Main Event. This run yielded figures of 5.8634 seconds at 243.71 mph. |
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This singular device is driven by Perry |
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Tony Betts driving the Venom Fuel Altered was running in the seven second zone which is way, way off the pace for him. |
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Peak Performance Day, Santa Pod Raceway, 5 September 2010 |
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Many of you will recognise the bike as Brian Johnson's ex-Imperial Wizard which ran best figures of 6.119 seconds and 234.11 mph (with an eighth mile speed of a whopping 196.4 mph) as long ago as 2001. |
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The Supercharged Outlaws were out in force at this meeting. |
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Paul Watts made the long haul from the Isle of Wight with his No Easy Pick Up powered by a 565 inch big-block Chevy. |
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Lee Gallimore's Red Mist Model T-bodied altered runs a 350 cubic inch small block. Lee's best run of the day was 7.447 seconds at 181.40 mph. |
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This is Brian Gandy's superb Skullduggery entry. |
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And finally Dave 'Fuzzie' McKenzie's 350 inch Team Thing altered. You can keep up to date with all the |
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Robin Orthodoxou's Chaos Brothers altered runs a massive 632 inch (10.36 litres!) motor which I believe came out of a Pro Stock. You can see below the sort of performance a lump like can produce in the right hands.
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These VW Beetles are getting quite entertaining to watch. You can always rely on one or more of them to be pulling wheels-up launches like this. |
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I have been told off by some of the proper photographers for not stopping down the shutter speed in order to produce blurred backgrounds in order to give an impression of speed. |
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More blurry background but at least this time the bike was traveling very quickly indeed. |
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Rob Smallworth put in a couple of runs in his lovely Super Modified Chevrolet - 7.779/177.05 and 7.741/177.11. How's that for consistency? |
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There are some really cracking looking dragsters running in Super Pro ET and this is definitely one of them. |
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Moving up a class is Dave 'Grumpy' Wilson's Top Methanol Dragster which runs way down in the fives when at full chat. |
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. . . Perry Watkins again and this time he is expecting a few friends for lunch although that is not him at the rear. |
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European Finals, Santa Pod Raceway, 10 September 2010 |
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Introducing on the left Swedish Top Fuel Dragster pilot Mikael Kagered, and on the right . . . err . . . Mikael Kagered. |
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I managed to snap Ian King on board the ex-Imperial Wizard Top Fuel Bike on his way back from scrutineering. |
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Andrew Gibb at the wheel of his immaculately restored 3800cc Jaguar-powered Stripteaser Minivan which he campaigns in Pro ET. There is an article on the site covering the painstaking restoration of this car which you can read by clicking here. |
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2009 Pro Stock champion Jimmy Alund hurls his 500 cubic inch Pontiac GTO off the line. |
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Steph Milam qualified number 4 in the Top Methanol Funny Car field on this run which was a 6.3602 second 199.00 mph effort. |
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This is Swiss competitor Rolf Ammann's 511" blown Chevrolet Coupe Pro Mod which he calls Blown Nugget. This run was a 6.5226/214.09 clocking which these days was only good enough for tenth spot. |
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Exciting times for Dutchman Marc Meihuizen's 526 cubic inch supercharged Pontiac Firebird Pro Mod entry as he gets too close to the wall for comfort. |
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Swede Adam Flamholc managed to give it the full berries on this pass which was a storming 6.1435/230.07 and put him second in the field. |
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Norwegian Kenneth Vic gets right down behind the screen of his 1655cc Veidec Suzuki GSXR Pro Stock Bike. Kenneth shut off before the eighth mile on this run so could only manage 11.4501/65.46 which was the slowest of the field. |
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This is Roman Sixta from the Czech Republic on his 2600cc Super Twin entry which he calls White Cat. Unfortunately Roman crept the lights which lit the red and added to his ET which was 8.9862 seconds with a terminal speed of 171.09 mph. It looks like he went the long way round on this pass because he is clearly trying to straighten the bike up under full power despite the fact that the front wheel is not in contact with the ground. This chap is obviously some rider! |
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I have drawn extensively on the excellent Eurodragster.com |
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(First posted 28 December 2010) |
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