European Finals

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I made my annual pilgrimage to the Pod on Saturday - and I was , as ever , stunned and amazed at the spectacle I first saw in 1973 .

Much talk elsewhere about the Bugatti Chiron doing 3000mph - with a Le Mans winning driver , on a long . multi lane private test track with teams of VAG engineers and so on. Yet at the Pod , here's one of the amazing women drivers wrestling an 8000bhp monster to nearly 300 and back to standstill in a few hundred yards .

If you have never seen drag racing you really, really should do so asap.

Here's a pic to whet appetites - very steampunk looking I thought .