All of the pictures on this page
were taken by professional photographer Kelvin Fagan,
I am very grateful to him for the opportunity of reproducing them here.
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Marion Owens (left) in conversation with John Hobbs on the right. |
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Three shots of the immaculate and very rapid double Norton-engined Pegasus campaigned by Ian Messenger and Derek Chinn.
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Who is the chap above staring pensively at Pegasus? None other than ex-pat Brit Jay Upton who is now the Top Fuel Bike champion in Australia. Visit Jay's website by clicking here. |
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Two shots of Terry Revill firing
up his double Kawasaki-engined gas bike The Assassin for the first time at Santa
Pod. |
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Thomas Klarkner was the rider of SW1 above - I like his style - top man! |
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American serviceman Terry Bell on board his 750 Triumph American Dream. Bell used to ride spread-eagled like this for virtually all of the quarter mile. |
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Time for some blown 4 wheel action and where better to start than the Page Brothers' legendary Panic! Pro Comp altered. |
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This is the late Lee Anders Hasselstrom driving his Swedish Air Force sponsored AA/FC. |
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Plymouth Arrow-bodied funnies were very popular in the 1980s and were great looking cars, none better than this excellent study of Gene Snow's Snowman. |
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Roz Prior drove the Maneater Top Fuel Dragster which was one of a fleet of cars belonging to Santa Pod Raceway. |
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The next three pictures show Shakespeare County Raceway as it was originally constructed by members of the National Drag Racing Club. It was called Long Marston back then. What you can see in the picture on the left is the strip running diagonally in the top right hand corner and the pits extending off to the left. The start line is out of shot on the right which means that the pits were originally located on the other side of the strip. |
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This shot was taken looking up the road by which you currently approach the pits and clearly shows the old pit area on the other side of the strip which runs from left to right almost in the centre of shot. |
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If you look carefully at the enlarged picture you will see there is a small spectator banking on the right hand side of the strip where the grandstands are today. Grandstand seating was provided on the left hand side of the strip by the use of hired trailers with built-in seating. |
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The next selection of pictures show Long Marston under construction by the club members. One of the first jobs was to acquire a large quantity of Armco barrier which as you can see was successfully accomplished. |
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The Armco was (and still is) attached to tubular steel uprights which were planted in holes drilled in the concrete runway. First they had to be cut to length which was done using this machine. |
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On the left NDRC supremo the late
Alan Wigmore is operating the gizzmo which drilled the said holes in the said
concrete, |
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Great oaks from little acorns grow. This is the first bit of Armco barrier that was installed at Long Marston. The Parkers, Mr & Mrs, left and right of the picture, did much of the administration of the NDRC. Can anyone supply the names of the 3 people in the middle of the picture? |
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Left and below - Steve Read at the controls of the beautiful John Woolfe Racing Chevy Beretta funny car. |
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The famous Liquidator Ford Pop
altered was originally owned by Tony Merry and later passed to Pete
Goddard. |
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