Thanks also to Keith Bartlett and Darren Prentice for all the job he’s done this 12 months

Santa Pod is one of the most readily useful tracks in the world while climate and people are just like it then the race is very good. This new Championship for 2009 has grown to become done. Now’s it cold temperatures and i pledge that i are certain to get the chance to return next year and you will perform my work. Nevertheless never know. There are troubles coming and that i vow that they may be repaired. ©Eurodragster Quick snippets. eighteenth September: Using Santa Pod Racers Pub Assistant Paula Marshall for delivering all of us Type 4 of your own certified entryway listing into the High Efficiency Bike Weekend, which will take lay on Santa Pod Raceway on tenth-11th Oct. You can visit the extreme Efficiency Bike Sunday entryway listing because of the clicking here or of the simply clicking the big event Visibility connect toward leftover-hands edge of any Eurodragster page and you will choosing the Significant Overall performance Bicycle Week-end. ©Eurodragster Ouch! nineteenth September: British Extremely Expert Et racing Paul Harvey very first got good go back to the fresh tune back to Can get however, something quickly become to go some time completely wrong:

Remember that we work at exclusive 1968 Ford Cleveland Alloy block engine, Ford trans and 1974 Rear System Dragster. I have had a few trips this season to the 410 ci Cleveland, the original actual decide to try of your engine while the 2005, both in the Pod and you may both leading to destroy. We were anticipate on Vintage Ford Reveal at the Pod in may, which was a good skills. We went good PB out of 8.67 and PB off 153 mph to the our last trial work on of your week-end, stumbled on stop at the top stop and discovered very little from the braking department. On examination on pits, one of the buttocks shaft hubs had completely snapped out of, and just the new braking system disk and you can caliper were holding on the 33″ Goodyear. fortunate?

This has been a good 12 months, nothing like 2008 with lots of rain

With the assessment right back home, i and additionally learned that we had 8th curved fatigue valves once a fault from the rotating set up. Very a quick reconstruct, 1000 dollar’s worth of pieces, and you may away to possess a past decide to try of the season during the VW Action/Level Abilities Date. Turned up Friday locate certain beneficial powering-in time in order to created about pits, simply to select we’d a faulty the brand new oil push and therefore bankrupt if you are idling towards whiplr indir the 3rd take to flames. New oil push arrived Tuesday day, and you can regarding we ran. ©Eurodragster Most of the I can state is that the burnout felt awesome, most picked up the tyres, a lot not the same as for the last. A small misjudgement from the team (part rusty) perhaps not getting this new tyres in songs when staging the auto to your the start range, and now we promptly spun new tyres for around 100 ft, two knowledge shifts etcetera, following shook reduce the fresh new parachute at about brand new 8th, therefore absolutely nothing much to review of that run. The following work at later you to big date, again an awesome burnout right after which an effective PB out-of 8.58 at a slow 143 miles per hour.

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Our point happens to be to better the first fastest Ainsi que of one’s Turbo Saxon ran, which was a keen 8.56, very almost indeed there. Later on about pits just after plenty of attempts to begin brand new engine and alter settings, i learned that there can be a problem. That sinking feeling whenever a spark plug would not leave the head, if in case you do have it out the end is totally forgotten.