2008 FIA Main Event
Friday (qualifying)
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Rick Denny has been Sportsman ET Champion in the past and led Pro ET qualifying after sessions 2 and 3. |
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Pro ET racer Carla Pittau was back out in Heaven and Hell As Well a mere three weekends after the car piroutted and tagged the guardrail at Shakespeare County Raceway. |
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Both Perfect Awards went to Pro ET in the same session. Paul Baynton won the Eurodragster.com / Gold RV Perfect ET Award and took #1 qualifier with an 11.0005 on an 11.00 dial-in... |
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...whilst Marius Blackburn won the Eurodragster.com / Speedflow Perfect Light Award with a 0.0006 RT. |
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Angie of the start line safety crew runs to the assistance of Jason Weir during Comp Eliminator qualifying. |
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Steve Anderson runs this very mean-looking Dodge Dart in Pro ET. |
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Halvor Överby went straight into #1 spot in Super Street despite reportedly not having touched the Opel since last season. |
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John Ricketts' Super Street Anglia is street-legal, was MOT'd yesterday, and ran a 10.8 today. |
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Nick Griffin made a move to #2 in today's last Super Street qualifying session. |
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Not for the first time Nigel Payne moves from a heads-up class to a dial-in class and takes the lead, this time in Super Pro ET. |
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Jack Brewster was #1 in Super Pro ET for about thirty seconds in the third session. |
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Mission accomplished for Bob Doyle with an eight-second pass in Super Pro ET qualifying. |
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A rare on-track appearance for Al O'Connor and he was quickly into the 9.9s in Super Gas qualifying. |
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We have two Pops in Super Gas this weekend, Matt Eley is currently tenth. |
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Jon Morton leads Super Gas and is fourth in Super Comp. |
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John Bradshaw's Nissan Skyline is -0.1401 seconds under index in Comp Eliminator with a PB of 8.1199. |
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Per Erik Lindgren has made a long journey from the north of Sweden and leads Comp Eliminator -0.6676 under index. |
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Dennis Habermann is second in Comp Eliminator -0.5036 under index. |
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Team Erbacher had their first outing on track today; Noah Stutz is currently #16 in Junior Dragster qualifying. |
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Ludvig Perés ended the day fifth in Junior Dragster. |
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Pontus Dantanus' Junior Modified Dragster arrived from the USA last weekend and today Pontus ran into the mid-sevens, but slowed it down before the Race Director had a word. |
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Pete Cresswell's Super Comp/Super Gas Mustang is in primer this weekend. |
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Eurodragster.com News sponsor Chris Isaacs broke rods in the motor of his Standard Vanguard and so is out for the foreseeable future. |
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Jens Riehl has a new motor in his Super Comp dragster. |
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Paula Atkin holds today's wheelie duration record going to at least 100 feet with the front wheels in the air in Super Pro ET qualifying. |
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Tim Adam made his first outing this year in his Super Gas Falcon. |
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Super Pro ET racer Nigel Turner declared himself mystified as his Super Pro ET dragster picked up two tenths this afternoon. |
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Junior Dragster rookie Lisa Selles has already won her first event this year, a race at Chambley in France. |
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Eddy Van Den Bos brought his Chevy C10 all the way from The Netherlands to run in Pro ET. |
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Nick Curtis has tamed the Team Lawbreakers Super Street Chevy, no more twisty launches. |
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Levi Selles has also made the trip from The Netherlands and is twenty second in Junior Dragster qualifying. |
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Teresa Letchford moved up to Pro ET this season and is currently twenty seventh in the huge field. |
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Sweden's Johan Rehmström is currently eleventh in Super Gas. |
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Germany's Jürgen Schubert is currently under index in Super Gas. |
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Nick Good had the wheels up in Super Pro ET qualifying. |
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Wheels-up launches are also customary for fellow Super Pro ET racer Steve Green. |
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