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Didn't make the weekend sadly, but enjoyed eurodragster.com coverage (well done to Tog & the gang, you deserve medals and honours for the work you all do to keep the absent informed).
to all racers, what a first event of the year! Super Street Bike seemed to put on a hell of a show, Dave Beck scaring the Nordics from a distance and, as mentioned already, a rather quick milk float with a beetle body, WOW! Well done to Darren, Adam & Motor Psycho gang on getting to their first final also.
TF/TM/PM, whilst I am a big fan, should, I think, be encouraged to come along and test (which in essence they are) rather than attempt to put a show on. What if the weather had done it's usual or there were more on track incidents, would the excellent (my PoV, from a distance) sportsman show have suffered delays to allow the pros to run at allotted times?
Final point: Darryl & Colin's commentary, with having the coverage running pretty much all weekend, for the first time I didn't reminisce about the good old days of Beckwith & Pricey. Witty banter, informative and with a passion that I found would engage fans new and old. Well done.
to all racers, what a first event of the year! Super Street Bike seemed to put on a hell of a show, Dave Beck scaring the Nordics from a distance and, as mentioned already, a rather quick milk float with a beetle body, WOW! Well done to Darren, Adam & Motor Psycho gang on getting to their first final also.TF/TM/PM, whilst I am a big fan, should, I think, be encouraged to come along and test (which in essence they are) rather than attempt to put a show on. What if the weather had done it's usual or there were more on track incidents, would the excellent (my PoV, from a distance) sportsman show have suffered delays to allow the pros to run at allotted times?
Final point: Darryl & Colin's commentary, with having the coverage running pretty much all weekend, for the first time I didn't reminisce about the good old days of Beckwith & Pricey. Witty banter, informative and with a passion that I found would engage fans new and old. Well done.
fergywales said:
What if the weather had done it's usual or there were more on track incidents, would the excellent (my PoV, from a distance) sportsman show have suffered delays to allow the pros to run at allotted times?
Yes. But that's just how it is. Always has been, and always will be. Having been on both sides of the fence for that, it doesn't bother me too much. What I don't understand, though, is the obsession with only running complete cycles of qualifying. The track closed early on Friday, for example, because there wasn't enough time to run another complete cycle. But who cares? Why not run as much as you can before curfew, and continue the cycle the following morning? I can understand why you wouldn't split a class. But splitting the cycle at the end of an appropriate class seems a no brainer to me. We get little enough track time in this country as it is. I'd like the see us make better use of that time that we're currently doing. We have the chance to throw a few more vehicles down the track. I don't see why we don't take it.Equally bizarre was the decision on Saturday night by the race director. When the last cycle of the day couldn't be completed, the decision was made to start the next cycle again from scratch the following morning, with the promise that they'd try and fit in an extra run at the end of the day for those of us that had missed out at the end of the previous cycle. To no one's great surprise, that never happened, and we missed out on a qualifier that we should have had. Yes, I know that we got a decent number of qualifiers anyway, but we've paid the same as the other classes to enter, so it seems strange that we get to miss out while they get extra runs. There's an argument to say that maybe Pro ET and Super Pro ET will put rubber down to prep the track for the other classes, so it makes sense to run them first. But personally I'd rather just run on a slightly green track...
But that aside, ultimately, I had a great weekend, even if the racing didn't go entirely as planned. After taking a year out last year, it was great to be back out on track, and nice to see decent weather for the whole meeting (even if it was too hot to be entirely pleasant for me or for the car).
Agree, did come across as a bizarre decision top chop and change running orders. Can only assume there was a reason not immediately apparent that lead to it.
I can understand to an extent when the race track and support staff hours are taken into consideration. What also struck me as bizarre was that none of the 5 TF teams (or indeed any of the FIA or FIM/UEM racers) took the opportunity to tab a teat run on the end of the finals day. Would have been good track time and a good close to the event (not that Andy Robinson's 6.10 wasn't a fitting end to proceedings for the weekend).
I can understand to an extent when the race track and support staff hours are taken into consideration. What also struck me as bizarre was that none of the 5 TF teams (or indeed any of the FIA or FIM/UEM racers) took the opportunity to tab a teat run on the end of the finals day. Would have been good track time and a good close to the event (not that Andy Robinson's 6.10 wasn't a fitting end to proceedings for the weekend).
fergywales said:
What also struck me as bizarre was that none of the 5 TF teams (or indeed any of the FIA or FIM/UEM racers) took the opportunity to tab a teat run on the end of the finals day. Would have been good track time and a good close to the event (not that Andy Robinson's 6.10 wasn't a fitting end to proceedings for the weekend).
its not up to the teams if they test or not its up to the race director, Andy R was only alowed that shot as he is leaving SP and going straight to Kunmadaras and had to test his engine after the trouble hed had this weekend,fuel cars in europe dont test generaly it costs too much they wont run for free anywhere,... what do you think this weekend is for the big cars.....a test session for the fia rounds with pay...
fergywales said:
Final point: Darryl & Colin's commentary, with having the coverage running pretty much all weekend, for the first time I didn't reminisce about the good old days of Beckwith & Pricey. Witty banter, informative and with a passion that I found would engage fans new and old. Well done.
I have to agree, Darryl commetating from the startline and getting "first impression" feedback from teams was a good idea.wicked fish said:
fergywales said:
What also struck me as bizarre was that none of the 5 TF teams (or indeed any of the FIA or FIM/UEM racers) took the opportunity to tab a teat run on the end of the finals day. Would have been good track time and a good close to the event (not that Andy Robinson's 6.10 wasn't a fitting end to proceedings for the weekend).
its not up to the teams if they test or not its up to the race director, Andy R was only alowed that shot as he is leaving SP and going straight to Kunmadaras and had to test his engine after the trouble hed had this weekend,fuel cars in europe dont test generaly it costs too much they wont run for free anywhere,... what do you think this weekend is for the big cars.....a test session for the fia rounds with pay...
Great to see progress happening with the Cuda, and well done on having the kahunas to put together the turbo setup in the Superbird. Our own Roger Burgess in the making
Once again Darryl and Colin were fantastic on the commentry.
My massive congratulations has to go to Lawrie, Gary and the Chaos team. Storming performance all weekend and knocking very heavily on the door of Clive Mechaell's record
and getting to race one of your heros in a fuel altered final, awesome 
Also to Wendy Baker and Paul Stubbings, good to see the lone NFC out there flying.
My massive congratulations has to go to Lawrie, Gary and the Chaos team. Storming performance all weekend and knocking very heavily on the door of Clive Mechaell's record
and getting to race one of your heros in a fuel altered final, awesome Also to Wendy Baker and Paul Stubbings, good to see the lone NFC out there flying.
i was not able to get to the pod this weekend but the coverage on Eurodragster and the webcam was the best it has been.. as already been said Colin & Darryl did a great job.
the performances from all classes were fantastic too it was a joy to watch everything all weekend and i cannot wait for the Main Event.
big well done to Gary page and the team !!
and also to Dave beck what a great run that was.
as for the fuel cars .. was not really expecting many of them to put in full runs.. but some half track numbers make the Main event looks very interesting...
the best thing was that the weather was good all weekend and everyone in every class got to put some runs down.
Bring On May
the performances from all classes were fantastic too it was a joy to watch everything all weekend and i cannot wait for the Main Event.
big well done to Gary page and the team !!
and also to Dave beck what a great run that was.
as for the fuel cars .. was not really expecting many of them to put in full runs.. but some half track numbers make the Main event looks very interesting...
the best thing was that the weather was good all weekend and everyone in every class got to put some runs down.
Bring On May
NitroWars said:
In my opinion I thought it was a shame that the RFM cars only appeared to "make the numbers up" so as to take payment by guaranteeing a crowd without putting in representative passes... It was no surprise to see the top two places taken by independents (and by a large margin too)...
The top two places were taken by the combinations that have the most runs under their belts with their respective set ups. I was not at all surprised to see the new RFM combinations not being at the front. These cars are not easy to tune and the top end is where you do the damage.Burndown said:
NitroWars said:
In my opinion I thought it was a shame that the RFM cars only appeared to "make the numbers up" so as to take payment by guaranteeing a crowd without putting in representative passes... It was no surprise to see the top two places taken by independents (and by a large margin too)...
The top two places were taken by the combinations that have the most runs under their belts with their respective set ups. I was not at all surprised to see the new RFM combinations not being at the front. These cars are not easy to tune and the top end is where you do the damage.NitroWars said:
Burndown said:
These cars are not easy to tune and the top end is where you do the damage.
Really? You're kidding me aren't you! 
ETA - Just to let you know that 2011 is my 36th season involved in Drag Racing...
Edited by NitroWars on Tuesday 26th April 13:08
wicked fish said:
what do you think this weekend is for the big cars.....a test session for the fia rounds with pay...
How very true. Big well done to Dave Beck too, 7.06 @ 188mph
We went up on the Saturday and enjoyed it, not quite sure why every topic on here now turns into a barny but hay ho.
BennettRacing said:
How very true.
Big well done to Dave Beck too, 7.06 @ 188mph
We went up on the Saturday and enjoyed it, not quite sure why every topic on here now turns into a barny but hay ho.
Well done to Dave on the record and everyone else who had PB's, Conrad dipping to the 6.8's in his pro stocker, John Bradshaw in his nissan 200mph! sorry for anyone else I missed, busy working hard to get the Timewarp car that I work on to a new pb of 6.73@215.87, just a thought, new class record Big well done to Dave Beck too, 7.06 @ 188mph
We went up on the Saturday and enjoyed it, not quite sure why every topic on here now turns into a barny but hay ho.
sadly you can type anything on here and someone has to jump on it and put you down.
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