European Top Fuel racer Jndia Erbacher has announced, with team owners Erbacher Top Fuel Racing, the launch of her 2024 season which will take place this Saturday, 4th May at Weidenstrasse 50, 4143 Dornach, Switzerland.
Starting at 1600, there will be a dragster fire-up at 19:00 followed by a barbecue and drinks for Club 111 members and the live band Rockin' Chair at 2100 with a collection for funding Jndia's season, yet to be announced.
Heaven of Colours tattooists have been announced as new sponsors for 2024 alongside principal sponor Monster Energy.
The Ant Hill Mob Dragracing Team with Top Fuel racer expat Brit Smx Smith have announced their return to competition at the NHRA New England Nationals to be held from 31st May to 2nd June at Epping, New Hampshire.
The team announced: It’s going down! It’s official! For the first time since 2019, Smax will be back behind the wheel of the Leverich Family family Top Fuel Dragster!
No better team to be with, as Smax enters his 50th drag racing season, his 70th year on this planet, and the Leverich family’s 75th racing season! With a Gary Leverich tune, fresh off a 3.87@298 shut off run, Smax is looking to break his final milestone, running 300mph to 1000ft, and, as always, looking to break personal bests as the weekend goes.
The team racing thank their sponsors CP Carrillo, Hussey Gaskets, Six B Apparel, Zinger Bill, Clear Shot Customs Inc, Vodka Friday Canada, Trevor Snyder Matco Tools, Link Street Sausage, Macdaddy 1323 and Hutchison Haulage Inc.
Happy Birthday for today to Top Fuel racer shortly about to start competition in the NHRA Ida Zetterström, Street Week Sweden organiser Mats Appelgren, and Ford Consul racer Steve Taylor. We hope you all have a fantastic day.
Kieran has posted video from the Friday of the Festival of Power Rescheduled on his Mk1Kieran YouTube channel. Classes that feature are Pro ET, Super Pro ET, Super Comp, Comp Eliminator, Pro Modified, Funny Car, Nostalgia Funny Car, Outlaw Flat Four, Outlaw Anglia, VWDRC Pro, Super Gas, Super Street Bike, Top Fuel Bike. You can see Kieran's video by clicking here.
Top Fuel Bike owner, crew chief and engineer Phil Baimbrige has posted a blog entry on his Festival of Power Rescheduled with new rider Jiri Lukes acclimatising himself well to the 3 cylinder Rocket. You can see Phil's blog entry on his Facebook page by clicking here.
Meanwhile new Top Fuel Bike owner and racer Phil Crossley has posted a blog entry about running the historic Imperial Wizard at the Phil writes: "Once again we went with 2 Top Fuel bikes - or maybe that should be 1.75 Top fuel bikes, as mines not fully fledged just yet. The plan was similar to the last event, but this time I would concentrate on racing Keith Edwards' Imperial Wizard, and use any free time between rounds to start the v4 and test some of the modifications I'd made and try the Maxxecu setups I'd been working on." You can read the full story on Phil's FB page by clicking here.
Nick Pettitt has started to add pictures to his website of Andrew Stawiarski first gallery covering 1976-1979, you can view all the photo's by clicking here. There's a lot of bikes in the gallery which have been captioned with help from the British Drag Bike History group on Facebook, you can view them by this link.
Max Frost from Santa Pod Raceway has announced this important information ahead of this weekend's Nostalgia Nationals
Racers and public are reminded of a road closure that may limit access to Santa Pod Raceway this week leading into Nostalgia Nationals. 𝟮𝟵𝘁𝗵 𝗔𝗽𝗿𝗶𝗹 - 𝟯𝗿𝗱 𝗠𝗮𝘆
Hinwick Road will be fully closed on the above dates to fix the bad section of road by the bridge. The blue diversion route is out to Bozeat and along the A509, red line is the closure.
Although these works are due to finish on Friday 3rd May - Those planning to make use of the Friday Early Arrival may be affected and may need to find alternative routes via the diversions.
Round 2 of the Enemed Maltese Drag Racing Championship takes place on 3rd-5th May with Fueltech Malta Mayhem. Following test and tune on Friday 3rd at noon, round 1 of qualifying is at 16:00 until 19:00. Qualifying continues on Saturday 4th with four sessions from 11:00 to 19:00 with eliminations on Sunday 5th at 10:00am.
94 Entries are confirmed at the biggest May race in Maltese drag racing history. Included are a trio of V8 powered dragsters of Mario Borg, Matthew Carabott and Alan Muscat, the trio of 6 cylinder D5 dragsters of Clifton Abdilla, Alan Zammit and John Martin.
We will bring news from the event courtesy of Malta Drag Racing Association, and links to live video.
Thanks to MDRA committee member Konrad D'Anastasi for posting on his Youtube channel 89 videos of runs from the April RWYB held on Saturday 20th, which you can see by clicking here.
Our article on Jack Spider-man Taylor has drawn another racer who has constructed a Junior Slingshot dragster. Step forward Andy Gosling following an appeal by Dave Nelson who recalls such a car being around at the track a number of years before.
Andy said "I built it for my kids, and named it Ram Raider Jr., there was no way I could build one with the engine in the wrong end! At the time I never claimed it to be the first Jr slingshot but we never found another to race. My boys Ben and James Gosling both raced the car at Shakey for three or four years.
"It was outside the Junior Dragster rules, despite being built to all the regulations regarding tubing and safety stuff, but luckily Shakey agreed we could run it as long as I didn’t put a Hyabusa engine in it!
"We ran it for 3 years probably, until the kids grew out of it, first with a 125 two stroke that never really ran right then with a 250 four stroke."
Adam Harrison added "I own this now, was in the process of installing a Suzuki motorcycle engine into it but I don't have the time to finish it so I will be selling it as an unfinished project."
Photo of Andy Gosling's Junior Slingshot courtesy Wild Bunch website.
Thanks to Andrew Clifford for his notes on the Festival of Power, Andrew says:
Last Wednesday it looked like we would have to drop out of the FoP (at the last minute) for the third year in a row.
However, thanks to my son's boss we were able to borrow a trailer to get the car to the pod on Thursday morning. Turns out the car enjoyed getting off the borrowed trailer so much it went straight out and ran a PB 8.60 on Friday! We then had our most successful qualifying session ever finishing up in 3rd with our 8.94.
It was a great shame not to have the opportunity to try and make it through round one on Sunday but glad to finally get home and warm up. We still have things drying out today. Gutted for everyone affected by the weather but we are an amazing community and I know many of us will be back stronger at the Main Event next month.
Thanks to all at the Pod for never quitting and shout out to my amazing family/crew: Dad, James and my wife Rach. Thanks mum for supporting via the livestream!
Finally, a massive thank you to Kevin Parsons of Parsons Metal Recycling, Walton-on-Thames for the loan of the trailer (it's already reserved for Main Event). There are some genuinely nice people around and Kevin is one of them.
Joakim Tarnstrom Press Officer Bryntesson Motorsport has announced this latest news from Sweden: A-Fuel Team Sweden is aiming for a full European Championship season in Top Methanol!
Just like last year, Bryntesson Motorsport and Jonny Lagg Racing are competing under a common flag as A-Fuel Team Sweden in the European Dragracing Championship and the Top Methanol class. Both teams have their sights set high for this year's season, which begins at Santa Pod in England on May 24-27.
"We took big steps in our development last year and this year we are ready to take the next step to fight for the European Championship title”, says Tony Bryntesson. "It is a great advantage for us that we can do it in cooperation with Jonny Lagg and his team.
In drag racing, shared experiences are double experiences. With few racing opportunities, it is important to be able to share experiences with each other in order to get all the five thousand horses down the strip. Both teams have plenty of skills to bring to the table. Several of Tony's team members, such as Christer Runald, Bosse Davidsson and Lasse Theander, were already involved in the Top Fuel era in the 90s and helped Tony to great success. Jonny has drag racing legend Krister Johansson and Lars Lindkvist and others in the crew.
"There is plenty of expertise in both teams," says Jonny Lagg. “Dragracing is a team sport, more than any other branch of motorsport, and much of the result is already decided in the pit.
Jonny Lagg comes into this season after a long winter rebuilding his dragster after the engine explosion that occurred at Mantorp Park last year. Drag racing fans stepped up and helped getting Jonny Lagg on the track again with the help of a fundraiser - Powered by Fans.
"It's amazing how much support we've had from all the dragracing fans," says Jonny. "We will try to repay it with good results, and we have everything needed to do so.
The premiere will take place at Santa Pod in England where Bryntesson Motorsport ended the season with its best ever record of 5.29 seconds, the third fastest by a Swede of all time, and Tony is looking forward to coming back.
"It will be extra fun coming back to Santa Pod because we did so well there in the final last year. If we can repeat that and keep a consistent level throughout the season, we should be able to fight at the top of the championship.”
The first chance to see A-Fuel Team Sweden in action at home will be at Tierp Arena where the second European Championship event of the year is run on June 13-16.
Happy Birthday for today to Wild Bunch racer Bradley Cooper, Outlaw Flat Four racer Jack Marriage and Comp Bike racer Michael Gooding We hope you all have a great day!
