Santa Pod this weekend
Discussion
If you're only going for one day and you're not overly concerned about seeing who actually wins, I'd go Sunday, as that's final qualifying and you'll get more bang for your buck.
I know it gets said every time drag racing gets mentioned on here, but if you've never seen two top fuel dragsters running in anger, be prepared to be utterly floored. You simply cannot believe what you've just seen, heard and felt. Best way to describe it is "visceral". I know it's the first big event of the season, so there will undoubtedly be early season gremlins, but quite a few of the top fuel field have the parts and potential to run VERY fast this year. I'm expecting 4.70s and 310+ at some point this weekend from someone.
Usual big event rules apply - take your own food and drink (and a bag for the rubbish pleeeease), don't forget the sun tan lotion and aim to get there early. Sitting around with a bacon sarnie and a coffee waiting for things to get started is infinitely more preferable than overheating in a jam three miles away. I speak from bitter experience.
Have yet to see the scameras out in force for big events at Santa Pod (can't comment on the lifestyle events), but I'm sure they'll be lurking somewhere, so keep 'em peeled!
I know it gets said every time drag racing gets mentioned on here, but if you've never seen two top fuel dragsters running in anger, be prepared to be utterly floored. You simply cannot believe what you've just seen, heard and felt. Best way to describe it is "visceral". I know it's the first big event of the season, so there will undoubtedly be early season gremlins, but quite a few of the top fuel field have the parts and potential to run VERY fast this year. I'm expecting 4.70s and 310+ at some point this weekend from someone.
Usual big event rules apply - take your own food and drink (and a bag for the rubbish pleeeease), don't forget the sun tan lotion and aim to get there early. Sitting around with a bacon sarnie and a coffee waiting for things to get started is infinitely more preferable than overheating in a jam three miles away. I speak from bitter experience.
Have yet to see the scameras out in force for big events at Santa Pod (can't comment on the lifestyle events), but I'm sure they'll be lurking somewhere, so keep 'em peeled!
The DJ 27 said:
We're aiming to leave at 06:30, should get there around 9:00. Please tell me I'm going to be early enough?
That's normally the time I aim to be there for. From experience over the last five or six years, the traffic really starts building up after 10am. Nothing more frustrating than being sat on Airfield Road listening to the first round of top fuel....
Think Saturday has a full shedule of pro class qualifying (two sessions). The running orders are Here
standing in the Barn is fun! I actually find the nitro Harleys worse than the fuel cars. They have a sort of low end thump that goes right through you. Even stood there for the jet once...not doing that again!
You can't fall off a car either!
Good day yesterday - loads of personal bests and lots of promise for the coming season. Nice to see a decent field in top methanol dragster and especially good to see Krister Johansson get the injected nitro car running the numbers. Should be a few more cars joining the tour over the course of the season as well. All we need now is the return of the Maltese teams. Should be more top fuel cars coming this season as well, so who knows how many there'll be come the Eurofinals? Ditto pro mod - 20 cars at the first event is brilliant. Shame the nitro funny cars struggled again, but that's something of an ongoing saga unfortunately.
Highlights for me were Tommy Moller's 308mph blast, plus Trevor Capewell lowering his PB on every pass and getting oh so close to a 5 with 6.005. Nice to see the UK teams stepping up in TMFC. I think PH's resident Pro ET team are doing quite well too.
Glad I know my sneaky shortcut to avoid the traffic though, as it was busy even when I got there just after 9:00am! Santa Pod looks in better shape than it's ever been, there seem to be more advertisers than there's ever been and the place was packed. Added bonus, I found an even sneakier sneaky short cut on the way home
Good day yesterday - loads of personal bests and lots of promise for the coming season. Nice to see a decent field in top methanol dragster and especially good to see Krister Johansson get the injected nitro car running the numbers. Should be a few more cars joining the tour over the course of the season as well. All we need now is the return of the Maltese teams. Should be more top fuel cars coming this season as well, so who knows how many there'll be come the Eurofinals? Ditto pro mod - 20 cars at the first event is brilliant. Shame the nitro funny cars struggled again, but that's something of an ongoing saga unfortunately.
Highlights for me were Tommy Moller's 308mph blast, plus Trevor Capewell lowering his PB on every pass and getting oh so close to a 5 with 6.005. Nice to see the UK teams stepping up in TMFC. I think PH's resident Pro ET team are doing quite well too.
Glad I know my sneaky shortcut to avoid the traffic though, as it was busy even when I got there just after 9:00am! Santa Pod looks in better shape than it's ever been, there seem to be more advertisers than there's ever been and the place was packed. Added bonus, I found an even sneakier sneaky short cut on the way home
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