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[grahamw48]

As a student I had a summer job driving a mobile cigarette shop owned by Imperial Tobaccos.
One venue was next to the startline at Santa Pod in 1970.

Been a fan and regular spectator ever since.

Had a go at York recently:

[T.S.R.]

I have a vw funy car with a 555ic built by jeff bull ,been drag racing for about 8 year.I also crew on a mustang funny car that run in super pro ET and a rail that runs in the same class.Run my first 8 at big bang

[T.S.R.]

Andy Raw

[Mopar Steve]

Hi, i'm Steve Case, 1970 Dodge Challenger, got the car into the 10's now, but currently building a bigger motor, so car won't be run in anger again until 2010!!! Done my 1st race in 1978 at the 'Pod, and have run such things as a supercharged 3 litre Capri, Formula 400 Firebird with GTO 389 six-pack, camaros etc.

Edited by Mopar Steve on Tuesday 7th July 22:07

[Pro Gob Theo]

Hi All. Colin Theobald, Drag racing fan for 30 years and in my first season (and hopefully not my last) as one of the commentary team at Santa Pod. Sorry for any wrong info and incorrectly announced names.... Loving every minute in the commentary box and hoping to meet as many of the racers and crews before the season ends.

Cheers,

Colin.

ps. Will visit the banking with the radio mic more often to meet the spectators....
pps. Will never call Dave Days car the Bar-*-*** roadster ever again, sorry Dave.
ppps. Will never sing over the PA at the 'Pod ever again........

[Jon C]

Pro Gob Theo said:

Hi All. Colin Theobald, Drag racing fan for 30 years and in my first season (and hopefully not my last) as one of the commentary team at Santa Pod. Sorry for any wrong info and incorrectly announced names.... Loving every minute in the commentary box and hoping to meet as many of the racers and crews before the season ends.

Cheers,

Colin.

ps. Will visit the banking with the radio mic more often to meet the spectators....
pps. Will never call Dave Days car the Bar-*-*** roadster ever again, sorry Dave.
ppps. Will never sing over the PA at the 'Pod ever again........

Doing a grand job, Colin. There is a hard core group of us at about 330 foot on the banking, come and say Hi at the finals...

[double trouble]

Colin
you are doing a fantasic job, thanks for taking the time to come round each and every team and try to find out a little about them, as regarding the bbq comments hmmmmm i,m sure weve been called much worse (spence,s normally good for a unprintable line or two!)

[fuzzian]

Hi im ian
I have been visiting the Pod since the early 70s

[novanut64]

paul bentley from romford essex run my 64 nova in UKSRS/NSCC/KING OF EUROPE
hang around with the crow lane mob

[Aveago]

I'm Nigel Holland and I race in the National Drag Racing Championships in the Sportsman ET class. Although I'm not racing this year due to lack of funds! I'm also one of many press photographers at Santa Pod Raceway.

My Racing Site: http://www.aveagoracing.co.uk


My Ford Mustang 4.6GT V8. Not a super fast car but very consistent which is all that's needed for bracket racing. My best ET is 14.8s.

Who am I kidding, of course I want to go faster. Going fast is fun and you can never have too much fun!

[Y8RSP]

Hi chaps/chapesses,
Steve Porter, Cylinder head monkey and fuel guy... crewing Top Fuel since 2004 with Andy Carter, Janne Ahonen, Barry Sheavills, Linda Thun Tønseth & Risto Poutainen. This year i'm crewing Kai Selkämaa's TF Bike in Germany and the Fianls

[598SE]

MICK HEAR. CO OWNER AND CREW CHIEF OF MINE AND SPLINTERS COUGAR.
BEEN INVOLVED IN RACING SINCE CREWING FOR DAVE MINGAY AND HELLRAISER. AT THAT TIME
I WORKED FOR JON WEBSTER IN SOUTHEND SO I BLAME HIM FOR MY ADDICTION TO THE SPORT.
HAVE TO SAY ANDY THE NEW LOOK FOR THE VX IS GREAT AND I DOOOOOOO REALY WISH YOU ALL THE BEST FOR PM. IT WILL BE REALY INTERESTING TO SEE A UK TURBO MOTOR IN THE CLASS. BEST OF LUCK.

[redvictor]

598SE said:

MICK HEAR. CO OWNER AND CREW CHIEF OF MINE AND SPLINTERS COUGAR.
BEEN INVOLVED IN RACING SINCE CREWING FOR DAVE MINGAY AND HELLRAISER. AT THAT TIME
I WORKED FOR JON WEBSTER IN SOUTHEND SO I BLAME HIM FOR MY ADDICTION TO THE SPORT.
HAVE TO SAY ANDY THE NEW LOOK FOR THE VX IS GREAT AND I DOOOOOOO REALY WISH YOU ALL THE BEST FOR PM. IT WILL BE REALY INTERESTING TO SEE A UK TURBO MOTOR IN THE CLASS. BEST OF LUCK.

Thanks Mick. I'm looking forward to it myself..

[timingmonkey]

David Anniwell, Santa Pod baby and general timing and technical geek. Working at Santa Pod for 7 years and 5 years on timing. Also worked at Mantorp Park in 2008 & 2009. I'm the guy changing a lamp on the tree and looking gormless on the startline on the Eurodragster galleries from Veidec Festival 2009.

[Cliff J]

I'm Cliff Judson, I compete in the Pro street drag series at Shakespeare county raceway.
Last year (2008) was my first year competing, I was fortunate enough to win the street class title for the season and came 2nd overall with street and pro classes combined.

My car is a Nissan Skyline R33 GT-R. My engine is standard, as are the weak ceramic turbos, injectors and cams. Its basically a "stage 1" tuned GT-R with exhaust, filters, boost controller (1 bar boost) and remapped on an Apexi Power FC by Abbey motorsport, but has still produced a very respectable 11.97 @ 114mph (Personal best) on my last outing in June 2009 at SCR.

Edited by Cliff J on Tuesday 4th August 22:38

[jamiep]

Not really into drag racing, ive only ever been twice, i knew my car had the potenial to do a decent time so had a crack at it yesterday, managed a 10.9 @ 126 mph with a 60ft of 1.6, im going to stick with doing trackdays now, might have a crack at Vmax.

[Jon C]

jamiep said:

Not really into drag racing, ive only ever been twice, i knew my car had the potenial to do a decent time so had a crack at it yesterday, managed a 10.9 @ 126 mph with a 60ft of 1.6, im going to stick with doing trackdays now, might have a crack at Vmax.

Very impressive.

[jamiep]

Thanks, forgot to add the car is still on a stock unopened engine, just bolt on mods, running 632bhp 545ftlb, gets driven most days and has done 15k in the last year, its never let me down.

[Jon C]

Pity you aren't really into Drag Racing, with performance and reliability like that you could do really well in Super Street...

[Herald5.7]

Tony from Guildford. I've done aseason or two in a road car and now building a 'proper' racer.
First day out we managed a 1/4 time of 13.2 @ 112 with n 1/8 time of 8.9 @100.
Lots of fun to come next year.