The big one

Just  a couple of days to go now till the start of the FIM European Finals at Santa Pod, the biggest drag racing event of the year, and the first 'euro' event we have entered. Bike classes running at this event are:
Top Fuel Bike
Supertwin Bike
Pro Stock Bike
Superstreet Bike

We are entered in Top fuel bike as funnybike doesn't have it's own class but are allowed into top fuel. The catch as it were - is to make it onto the eliminations ladder the funnybikes must have run a 6.99 second ET or better. that gives us potentially 4 runs to improve our 7.2 into something a hell of a lot faster. The step from 7.2 to 6's is not a small one, but as ever we are going with our usual goal - to have fun and go quicker than we have gone before.  Anything else is a bonus.

The entry list looks like this:
TFB 1     Ian King         Litlington UK        1585cc
TFB 2     Rikard Gustafsson     Nethertlands         1550cc
TFB 3     Filippos Papafilippou     Greece              1570cc
TFB 4     Steve Woollatt         Garston UK         1327cc
TFB 7     Otto Knebl         Czech             1313cc
TFB 17     Lorcan Parnell         Kings Lynn UK        1500cc
TFB 18     Chris Reed         Essex     UK        1640cc
TFB 25     Phil Crossley         Lancaster UK        1500cc
TFB 31     Glenn Borg          Malta              1327cc
TFB 36     Rene v d Berg          Netherlands          1343cc
TFB 39     Stuart Crane         Sheringham UK        1640cc
TFB 40     Robert Brooks         Hellesdon UK        1700cc
TFB 43     Dale Leeks          Bury St Edmunds UK     1640cc
That's 5 actual top fuel bikes, 5 nitrous bikes, 2 turbo bikes and one supercharged methanol bike.

Coverage of this weekends event is better than usual too, and from midday friday can be watched via web TV as well as the usual coverage by the eurodragster.com team. All the links to webcams etc, can be found here: http://www.eurodragstereventcoverage.com/santapod/live/2016fiaeuropeanfinals/default.asp
the event starts on Thursday but the pro classes don't begin till Friday, with further qualifying on Saturday and eliminations on Sunday.