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Explosion Club web site moves...
28th February: The web site of the Dutch Explosion drag racing club has moved, and has been updated with new features such as a club member directory and a photo gallery. You can find the new Explosion web site at http://www.geocities.com/~explosion-nl.

...and so does TSI Timers'.
28th February: The web site of TSI Timers' European division has also moved. This site is a must for anyone interested in the technical aspects of the timing of drag races. TSI Timers' site is now at http://users.breathemail.net/mechy/.

UK snippets.
27th February: The following news items are courtesy of Jerry Cookson.

British photographer Darryl Bradford is expecting to make a career move with several drives in Smax Smith's 220 mph Top Alcohol Dragster this year. Following in the wheel tracks of American journalist and NHRA Funny Car racer Whit Bazemore, Bradford is expected to make his licensing runs at Avon Park Raceway in a month's time driving Smith's 2500 bhp "Astral Projection". (Editor's note: there's hope for Tog yet, then!)

Birmingham's Paul Jackson has acquired Gary Angel's VWDRC event-winning eight-second Modified class rear engined dragster. Jackson, who last raced in the Wild Bunch series in 1997 with a Rover V8 powered slingshot dragster, plans to contest the eight-round series for VW Modified dragsters and Beetles at both Avon Park and Santa Pod Raceway. The first round is scheduled for the Easter Thunderball at Santa Pod.

Former British Super Gas Champion Phil Drewitt is no longer on the straight and narrow. Drewitt, whose straight-line career began fifteen years ago with a Morris Minor V8 pick-up, is making a return to the quarter mile ovals with an ex-Malcolm Locke Formula Two stock car.

The Rover V8 Association has confirmed a four-round championship at Avon Park. Organised in conjunction with the Super Series, two classes of Rover V8 will be competing: Street Rover and Super Street Rover for eleven-second cars. Dates are May 1-3; June 19-20; July 30-August 1; and September 25-26. Contact Steve Law on 01895 850031 for more information.

Rob Faulkner is the new owner of Glen Dumont's "Crossfire" Pro Modified Chevy Camaro. Armed with a 500 cubic inch V8, Faulkner's plans include returning the car to the road whilst a few outings in the Custom Car Magazine Street Eliminator can't be ruled out.

 ETARA web site updated.
26th February: The official web site of the European Top Alcohol Racers' Association has been updated. It now contains 1999 race dates, an updated FAQ, and some new items for sale. You can find the ETARA web site at http://home.rednet.co.uk/homepages/dave_ale/dave_ale.html.

Top Fuel Technology.
25th February: A great new website has just been launched. Called simply Drag Racing it offers results, some great photos and an in depth look at the technology that goes into Peter Lantz's Top Fuel Dragster.

FIA Championships TV preview.
25th February: Satellite channel Eurosport is to broadcast a preview of the 1999 FIA European Championships next week. The FIA preview is twenty minutes in length, and makes up part of the Start Your Engines programme. It will be broadcast at the following times:

20:00 CET on Wednesday 3rd March (19:00 UK time)
00:00 CET on Thursday 4th March (23:00 Wednesday UK time)

UK site hosts USA pictures.
25th February: As with the Winston Finals pictures in November this is a tenuous link for a European drag racing site, but UK web site Tog's Drag Racing Page is currently hosting 153 of Bob Frye's excellent trackside photographs from the recent Winternationals at Pomona Raceway in California. Bob Frye photographs all races at Pomona for the NHRA, and is also responsible for producing the movies in NHRA Online's Multimedia section throughout the season. You can find Bob's photographs at http://www.togsdragracing.com/99winter.

Swedish Top Fuel Tour web site.
24th February: The official web site of the Swedish Top Fuel Tour, revealed here yesterday, is now online. Check it out at http://www.topfueltour.com.

Carter Motorsport seek pictures.
24th February: The web master of the Carter Motorsport Top Fuel Team web site is looking for pictures of Andy Carter, especially pictures of the cars which preceded Andy's Top Fueller such as his wild Outlaw Anglia. If you have any pictures of Andy Carter in action then please e-mail David Hoddle at david_hoddle@compuserve.com.

Swedish Top Fuel Tour.
23rd February: Swedish Top Fuel fans get an extra bite of the cherry in 1999 with today's announcement of a three-race, four-participant domestic Top Fuel tour. With the late-July FIA round at Mantorp Park, this brings the total number of Top Fuel races in Sweden in 1999 to four.

On the Swedish tour, Peter Lantz, Monica Öberg, Pelle Lindelöw and Jens Nybo will be racing at Piteå, Stockholm and Malmö for a total prize fund of one million Swedish Kronor.

"The major problem for Swedish teams to attract sponsors is that every race but one goes outside Sweden" says the tour's Stefan Boman. "Racing in Sweden is a way to make the Swedish cars more interesting for Swedish sponsors. Hopefully this will bring in sponsors to finance the Swedish Top Fuel Tour as well as the FIA European championship."

Full details will be available very shortly on the official Tour web site, whose address we shall publish as soon as it is announced.

 Speedflow seek bike partner.
22nd February: Speedflow are looking to get into the sports motorcycle market with a range of stainless braided brake lines with steel or anodised aluminium fittings. They are seeking an active bike racer in the south east of the UK who has a very close working relationship with a multi-manufacturer dealership. They need to develop patterns for all the popular bikes and look for a bike-orientated advertising platform (racer maybe) and technical partner.

If you are interested in becoming involved then please e-mail Speedflow at speedflo@netcomuk.co.uk or telephone on 0181 530 6664.

An Englishman on Holiday.
21st February: Many of you will remember Andy Carter from the FIA Top Fuel Championship two years ago. Andy is now in the USA and hopes to race later this year at several NHRA events. For more details see Andys new website :

Trouble Racing.
21st February: Trouble Racing, the awesome blown alcohol burning 55 Chevy from Switzerland now have their own website. Click HERE to take a look.

Svensk interviews Håkan Nilsson.
19th February: Svensk Dragracing has posted an interview with Nordic Pro Mod Champion Håkan Nilsson in which he gives a brief history of his involvement in the sport, sizes up the opposition, and voices his intent to hold on to his number one plate! Click here to reach the Svensk Dragracing site.

High pass rate at Chassis Open Day.
19th February: Twenty two cars were presented for inspection at last Saturday's Chassis Open Day at Santa Pod Raceway. In an encouraging outcome for this season's racing, sixteen of these cars passed without a problem, five required minor work, and only one failed outright.

Swap Meet opens.
17th February: Check out our new Swap Meet page, which allows you to place your own classified advertisements. Categories include cars and bikes for sale or wanted, crew positions sought or offered, and help and advice sought.

Eurodragster interviews Paul Allen.
16th February: Eurodragster's latest exclusive interview is with the UK's first Junior Dragster driver Paul Allen. Paul gives us a breakdown of what Junior Dragster is and how it works and some great insights as to what inspired him to get into the cockpit.Click here to read the interview.

Do you want everyone knowing?
16th February: Student Dave Nelson has approached TSI Timers for timing data for the last two European Finals as he wishes to chart the improvement (or otherwise!) in drivers' and riders' performances as part of an A-level project. TSI plan to provide this data over the next weekend. If any drivers or riders would rather that their own performances were not included in the data file then please e-mail TSI Timers.

The headlines from Bristol.
15th February: Zane Llewellyn writes to tell us that his BootSoop/Bristol Doorslammers site has had its latest fortnightly update.

There are two new pages this week: For Sale/Wanted in Bristol (sorry we beat you to the line on that one Zane, let's hope that doesn't set the tone for your racing this season!) and a new Street Rod page, which Zane says will grow as he gets around to the relevent garages and meeting places with his camera and notebook.

The main Bristol Doorslammers page also has new pictures and news.

Testing Times.
11th February: With the season nearing and Test and Tune days beginning at tracks around Europe, Eurodragster plans to publish a testing diary to give fans a chance to see some drag racing before the season proper starts. Eurodragster is also planning to attend test sessions and to publish brief reports. If you are planning to test at a Run What You Brung or a Test and Tune anywhere in Europe before the season starts, then E-mail Eurodragster with your testing dates, or a brief report of testing you have already undertaken, and we'll publish the details here.

If there are any fans outside the UK who would like to volunteer to provide Eurodragster with reports from test sessions then please also E-mail us.

Web site updates.
9th February: UK1320 now has a 1998 Top Ten list and webmaster Gareth invites everyone to make their own suggestions.

Swedish Super Gas team Nordstrom Brothers have also updated their web site. Winners at last year's Sko-Uno Drag Festival, the team are a little unusual in having a Ford power unit in their Mustang. "No Chevy parts here," says Richard.

Finally, if you want to buy or sell a car, bike, parts, tools or even a complete turnkey operation, place your free ad in our new Swap-Meet section. Fill in a simple form and your ad will appear in your selected category immediately.

Svensk Dragracing update.
8th February: The Svensk Dragracing web site has been updated with two versions of the Nordic Drag Racing Series calendar of events - a "normal" version and a detailed version for drivers and riders. Also new is a cool clickable map giving details of member tracks.

Formsvacka swerves to new URL.
7th February: Swedish Super Small Block team, Formsvacka Racing have moved their web site to http://www.formsvacka.com. You'll find a history of the team, info about the Sierra XR4i, 1999 race calendar and lots more on the site.

Nordic Drag Racing Series.
7th February: Peter Axeldal sends us this report from the Drivers Information Meeting yesterday:

"Now the race dates for Nordic Dragracing Series are settled. The calendar can be found on the Little Big Racing web site at http://w1.853.telia.com/~u85301044/page20.html.

As You can see down the bottom of the calendar, Jr-Dragster will have 8 races that all of them will count for. SST, SG, SC, S/SS, COMP and Street Bike will have 5 races that allways count and 4 of the others.

Another new thing for -99 is the new name, Nordic Drag Racing Series, and that the bikes will be included in the cup for the first time. Also new for -99 are that the listed races in Finland will be in the cup."

Thanks, Peter.

Drag Bike project.
6th February: Readers of the bike magazine "Back Street Heroes" will be familiar with that magazine's project to build a drag bike named "Fatalistic Attitude".

"Veggie Dave" writes to inform us that the project now has an official web site at http://www.bikehouse.demon.co.uk/racing.htm. The site features information and photographs documenting the bike's construction, together with other details such as race dates. We look forward to seeing the bike on the track!

1999 ACU Drag Bike Championship.
5th February: Ian King writes with details of the 1999 ACU Championship for drag bikes.

The 1999 Championship will be run over a total of ten rounds at Santa Pod and Avon Park. Superstreet will have ten, Top Fuel four and all the other classes eight points scoring rounds. The classes are Top Fuel, Funnybike (incorporating Top Fuel Twins), Prostock, Competition Bike (incorporating Pro Mod) and Superstreet Bike.

Riders' attention is drawn to the full version of this news release which contains important licensing information, 1999 rule updates and other details.

The championship dates are as follow:

April 3-5: Santa Pod (includes Top Fuel)
May 1-3: Avon Park
May 15-16: Santa Pod
May 29-31: Santa Pod (Superstreet only, all other classes FIM)
June 19-20: Avon Park (includes Top Fuel)
July 3-4: Santa Pod (includes Top Fuel)
July 31- August 1: Avon Park (includes Top Fuel)
August 28-30: Avon Park
September 10-12: Santa Pod (Superstreet only, all other classes FIM)
September 25-26: Avon Park
October 9-10: Santa Pod

Record-breaking web site.
4th February: JADE Racing, world two-stroke twin record-holder Jerry Collier's Supertwin Top Gas team have launched their web site. The site is still under construction but already there's lots of photos and information about the record-breaking bike. You'll find the site at http://www.jaderacing.freeserve.co.uk/.

TRB Racing on the move.
4th February: Nordic Junior Dragster champion Thomas Brundin has found a new home for his TRB Racing team web site, at http://home.swipnet.se/trb-racing/index.htm. The site has been recently updated with lots more information and pictures.

A family affair.
4th February: Hot on the heels of Tuesday's news comes word of another Junior Dragster driver joining this year's competition. 13-year-old Katie Gibbs becomes the latest member of her family to take to the strip, following in the footsteps of her father Terry and brother Craig, who have both raced in Super Gas.

"Katie has always wanted to give Junior Dragsters a go, and she's looking forward to it" says Katie's mother Tina. "She will have a lot of tuition before she gets in the car, and will get a lot of practise beforehand so that she can get used to the car. Terry and I think that is very important".

Katie has also found a sponsor for the car. "Pansonic Air Conditioning have confirmed that they will be on board with Obsession Racing this year" says Tina. "Katie's Junior Dragster will be in the same livery as the Super Gas car".

Junior Dragster certainly looks to be a growth class in its first season in the UK. "We've had a lot of interest from parents who read the piece in Custom Car and from drivers who would like to see their child having a go" says Tina.

If you would like to get involved in Junior Drag Racing then you can find details in Tuesday's news item.

1999 Avon Park race calendar.
3rd February: The full 1999 race calendar for Avon Park Raceway (UK) is as follows:

17-18 April: Test and Tune
1-3 May: Super Series 1 1 2
22-23 May: Street Fighter 1 (sponsored by Pirelli Tyres)
5-6 June: Mopar Nationals
19-20 June: Super Series 2 1
3-4 July: NSRA Nostalgia Nationals
17-18 July: Mini Shootout
31 July-1st August: Super Series 3 1
6-8 August: Bulldog Bash
14-15 August: GTI Nationals
28-30 August: Super Series 4 2
11-12 September: NSRA Hot Rod Drags
26-27 September: Super Series Finals 1
9-10 October: Street Fighter 2 (sponsored by Pirelli Tyres)
30-31 October: Invitational

1 UK National Championship round
2 RAC MSA British Top Alcohol Championship round

Junior Dragster storms into UK.
2nd February: It looks like Junior Dragster is really set to take off in the UK, with the possibility of 6 or more cars competing this year. Geoff Hauser tells us that he has already built one car and has orders for 4 more... and that's without counting Paul Lindley-Allen, who bought his car from the Little Big Racing team in Sweden. Anyone else interested in taking up Junior Dragster can contact Geoff at Hauser Race Cars, tel: 01933 312735, email: GeofHauser@compuserve.com.

Little Big Racing, meanwhile, will be graduating to Super Gas with a big block Chrysler powered Volvo 480. There should be some pics of the "Vopar" on their web site soon.

Site-seeing in Norway.
2nd February: Thanks to Rune Myrseth for some Norwegian web sites: http://w1.2638.telia.com/~u263809980/NDRG/ is the homepage for Gardermoen Raceway, http://home.sol.no/~rollsv12/krracing/ is KR Racing's Super Gas site and http://home.sol.no./~boyehaug/sdrace.htm is where you'll find the Shamestone Racing Super Comp team.

Showtime UK web site update.
2nd February: The Showtime UK Fuel FC team is still looking for a 1999 sponsor for their second, ex-Tom Hoover FC. The amount involved is approximately £12,000. If you would like to sponsor a Fuel FC then please visit the newly-updated Showtime UK web site, where you can also find news of a change of body for the ex-Hoover FC, and a fascinating new history of the "silver" Showtime Trans Am.

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