Fuel Funny cars in Europe

[Mark13]

A couple of years ago it looked like Fuel Funny cars were making a comeback in europe but it seems to have fizzled out. What happened to the Knighthawk car? where is the Nobby Hills car and the new Starkotter car? I think Patrick Pers is selling his car but that seems to leave Showtime, Shockwave, old Showtime and Mongoose. 6 to 8 cars with proper eliminations would be brilliant but I think the economy has probably put this out of reach.

[veryoldfart]

are AA/FC still banned from running in Sweden?

[anonfc777]

the knighthawk car should supposedly be here within the next few weeks, the new starkotter is said to be ready for the end of this year or beginning of next.

[Jon C]

veryoldfart said:

are AA/FC still banned from running in Sweden?

They were never 'banned', they just fell out of favour, and so SHRA dropped them from the rulebook.

[Mark13]

With todays news about Team Hawk Racing I thought i would revisit this thread.

How many Fuel Funny Cars are we likely to see out in 2010. Presumably Showtime, Shockwave, Mongoose and the Nataas car will be out and this will make 5 with the Hawk entry. If the rumoured new car from Leif is ready, we may end up with as many Funny Cars as Dragsters. What happened to the old Patrick Pers car? and the old Starkotter car?

It could be the start of something really exciting.

[Tet]

I wonder who's going to be driving the car now. Given that the team is no longer called Knight Hawk Racing, I'm guessing it's not going to be Paul Knight.

[hellfish]

Mr Haddock maybe?

[chris89]

I work on the Nobby Hills car, we have a car ready to go, and all the trailer, awning, everything to look like a profesional race team, we are just waiting on sponsorship, which is so hard to find. If we could get someone with a nice cheque book we would be out there, we just don't have the spares to justify an entry to an event yet

[chris89]

http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Nobby-Hills-Racin...

just so you can check out what the Nobby Hills funny car is up to

[venom racing]

We will be running at Easter with the FUEL Altered and then hopefully with a bit of help financial help and Mr Dave Bryant-coils help we will be running at Main Event and Euro Finals with the big boys. This all depends on Jason and Roy at FGR Motorsport making the dates so NO pressure lads lol.

[topfuelgb]

Blimey tone thought you were nearly done after last seasons flip;)
So does that mean you 'may' be driving a fuel fc again?
Would be soooo cool if you were

[venom racing]

You would have thought that but when push comes to shuv its my life its the only thing that keeps me sane. Jason offered to build me a new chassis to 10.5 which is the latest spec, and Roy is doing the body for the altered and then we are using the old Shockwave body. We have the KB for the altered and 2 TFX engines curtosy of King Knut although they were missing some of the bits he did me a great deal. Our sponsors have agreed to wrap the body so all we need is consumable funds. We are working hard to get a small sponsor on board so we can run the funny at the Main Event.

[chris89]

can't wait to see you out there in again Tony, always been a fan of the team! Will be sure to drop by and say hi!

[venom racing]

Hi Chris be nice to see you come by anytime mate. I know we will be cannon fodder for the big guns but who knows may have them numbers up tonight and then its GAME ON !!!!

[WJM]

Great that there sounds like the possibility of 5 or 6 fuel funnies running at the big meets this season, pity the Houndog team is still a bit uncertain, I remember Nobby's cars from years ago and it would be great to see them back again. The other thing that is good is that most of them are British based and use their own car not something hired from Scandanavia. If only we could get a sponsor for a British championship with 3 or 4 rounds across the country and a final at the Pod.

Bill

[Mark13]

Adding in the curved ball from Tony, we could see a 6 car field, with Showtime, Shockwave, Mongoose, Nataas, Hawk and Venom. With the possibility of the new Starkotter, Houndog and the ex Patrick Pers car we might see a full elimination field. This really could be bigger than the Top Fuel dragster entry by September.

[chris89]

venom racing said:

Hi Chris be nice to see you come by anytime mate. I know we will be cannon fodder for the big guns but who knows may have them numbers up tonight and then its GAME ON !!!!

I have the same plan for finacing Nobby's car, sponsorship is too hard to find at the moment, but I keep on trying! Will you be doing the altered season?

[venom racing]

Yes as many as we can Chris but had no real confirmation of meets yet. Also waiting to see if we are getting any prize money or run money because all we have had for the last few years is what dropped out of Lawries pockets and we are forever indebted to him for that.

[NIRO LEWY]

Be great to see a championship for fuel funny cars organised. 4 rounds say 2 at the pod and 2 at shakey, anybody see this happening in the near future at all?. I mite be wrong but wasnt there talk of this so called world funny car series flying about starting bout 2/3 years ago whats happened to that?

[jpw90]

NIRO LEWY said:

Be great to see a championship for fuel funny cars organised. 4 rounds say 2 at the pod and 2 at shakey, anybody see this happening in the near future at all?. I mite be wrong but wasnt there talk of this so called world funny car series flying about starting bout 2/3 years ago whats happened to that?

the funny car championship in England would be great and could happen, but Avon park need to upgrade the safety of the track before that could happen, change guardrail to concrete barriers etc.

the "so called" funny car world series did happen in 2008 with 4 funny cars, shockwave, mongoose, starkotter and knuts red line oil funny car. They ran at the pod twice, sundsvall, pitea and gardermoen. Then Knut retired so that was the only year it took place.