2007 Open Sport Nationals
Monday (eliminations)
Photos ©Roger Gorringe
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Jason Weir set new Personal Bests and made his first Real Steel Street Eliminator final. |
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Alas, a minute or so later one of the rods in Andy Chilton's Super Modified engine was laying smoking on the track. |
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Phil Leamon was runner-up in Comp Bike. |
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Paul Mander's Plymouth Arrow Super Mod was carrying the front left wheel for a few hundred feet on each run. |
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Stu Chamberlain's consistency took the win in Funny Bike. |
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The shiny new injector on the Giles and Hartley Super Pro ET dragster doubtless helped Barry Giles to the event win. |
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Dave Catton was runner-up in Super Gas, helping to redeem Paul Marston Racing's weekend after Grumpy's Dodge put a rod out. |
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It was a Battle of the Breakouts in the Super Street final and Martyn Sanger was the worst offender. |
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Ray Debben's very tidy ZX12R was a first-round casualty in Pro Stock Bike. |
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Dan Page was racing in Pro ET as well as calling the shots on Jon Morton's Super Comp/Super Gas Camaro. |
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Darryl Howells got to round three of the Wild Bunch. |
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Paul Herbert had another good weekend in VW Sportsman taking the event win. |
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Anna Stanley took the Junior Dragster win in a family double with Super Gas racer and dad Conrad. |
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Lane sponsor Motorshack will have been pleased with Paul Knight's Super Comp win. |
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Frank Bennett took a worthy event victory in NFAA which was heading for a Last Man Standing scenario. |
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Tony Betts blasted a 6.473 in the Venom Fuel Altered in NFAA qualifying. |
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Jon Turner's Barracuda broke so he substituted this very pretty pick-up in Sportsman ET. |
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Paul Wright was the class of the Outlaw Anglia field but did not show for the final. |
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Steve Carey was runner-up to Steve Woollatt in Top Fuel Bike and his bike went a lot straighter in the final. |
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Gary Bowe had a good weekend in Super Street Bike making it all the way to the final. |
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Scott Collier made the most of his head start in the Junior Drag Bike final but Tyler Clutterbuck took the trophy. |
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John Hackney had to wait more than five and a half seconds before chasing down Dan Baldwin and winning Supertwin ET. |
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Chris Stebbings' Destroyer took the Supertwin Gas title from #1 qualifier, Beardy Bloke Les Harris. |
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Jon Parker has changed Mustang models and took his first Sportsman ET event win. |
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Julian Harris aka Fast Harry was 9.50 Bike runner-up on a bike borrowed from Phil Pratt. |
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Frank Hoffmann's trip from Germany was worthwhile as he took the Outlaw Flat Four event win on his first weekend racing this Beetle. |
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