Festival of power 2014

This coming weekend is the Festival of Power at Santa Pod raceway, it's first event of 2014 and the largest event we attend as well.
The entry list for comp bike still stands at 8 riders. There's a couple of new names in the class but largely it's made up of familiar faces:

4     Phil Crossley          Suzuki GSX         1500cc
5     Tony Clark          Suzuki GSX1100          1500cc
6     Harold Wolfenden     Suzuki Hayabusa     1299cc
8     Kevin Osman          Suzuki Busa         1300cc
9     Dave Batcheler          Suzuki GSX Bandit     1340cc
11     Steve Whiting          Suzuki GSX          1500cc
42     Allan Davies          Suzuki GSX          1428cc
653     Robert Field          Suzuki Hayabusa      1300cc

There are also 3 names missing from last years lineup, they are:
Phil Leamon, who is still rebuilding his engine after grenading it after 365 passes at the last event of 2013.
Jemma Venables,  who has moved into the Superstreet bike Class
And Lizz Mcarthy, who is also rebuilding her bike but also changing it somewhat and is hoping to be out partway through the season.

Whats new for team bopchop then? To recap  - changes from last year, we now have a full 5 speed auto billet gearbox, which has made the bike simpler electronically and the gearbox is now a lot stronger as well. It won't make the bike any faster though. I've also added an oxygen sensor and clutch input shaft sensor, both of these should help us tune the bike, and maybe produce some better 60ft times as well as improving fuelling at the top end of the track and maybe gain a bit of MPH.

All the event coverage can be found on the eurodragster.com event page here: http://www.eurodragster.com/santapod/live/2014festivalofpower/default.asp
The webcam will be running throughout the weekend as well as live reports and audio.

Santa pod also have a preview video posted up on youtube.....