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Well we're all back from a weekend of world class racing at Bug Jam 24 and I'm certainly in need of a rest!

What a weekend!

Congratulations to rookie Sam Young in 'Black Current III' car not only for his electrifying (see what I did there) victory over Matt Attwood's V8 powered 'Blacklisted' in VW Pro but for his excellent silent burnout right out to the 60ft mark in qualifying. Anything petrol can do, electric can do too eh guys?!

This is the first time an electric vehicle has ever taken the honors in a UK championship class and the Hungerford VW Club guys really are knocking on the doors of re-setting their own European Record as well as taking a world record off the Americans and we wish them all the luck for the future.

Picture from DarrenW of http://www.retro-motoring.com

Russ Weir continued his progression towards upgrading from Runner Up in last years championship to Winner for 2010 defeating another Rookie Rhonda Calloway in a super close final. Unfortunately Russ's excellent looking Ghia isn't quite finished so he was in his sister Lou's Mk2 Golf GTi, but such a fantastic performance really shows just how great a racer Russ is, it seems he can win in anything!

With all that action over the weekend there's a couple of special mentions too, in no particular order.

Russ Fellows. 10.1 with 'chute out from the 60ft mark first pass out and closing the show with the lowest ET for an aircooled all weekend of 9.21 at 151mph. An awesome performance from a regularly driven street car I'm sure everyone can agree.

Picture from DarrenW of http://www.retro-motoring.com

Wayne Allman. What can we say? Awesome? Amazing? Insane? Probably. Intergalactic? Certainly.

If you didn't see it over the weekend 'Mental Breakdown' is Wayne's latest inspired creation, sporting a Methanol-burning supercharged Keith Black V8 burning five gallons of Methanol per run and capable of over seventeen hundred horsepower Mental Breakdown is truly something special and Wayne has pushed the envelope of not just VW race cars, but race cars worldwide with this creation.

Only on licensing passes this weekend, but he's certainly not holding back!

Picture from DarrenW of http://www.retro-motoring.com

Thanks to everyone that made Bug Jam 24 one of the best ever, I certainly had one of the best weekends ever.

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So it’s June and half way through the season already!

We’ve just completed the Summer Nationals at Santa Pod Raceway. Where both Pro and Sportman ran. We are happy to report that the weather was on our side all weekend and some fantastic racing was had.

VW PRO
Winner - James Hodson

Runner up - Ian Huggan

VW SPORTSMAN
Winner - Abi Tether

Runner up - Bruce Collins

RNJ Motorsport Car of the meeting was awarded to Bruce Collins

Third round of the 2010 championships and the first round of the year at Shakespeare County Raceway

An UNBELIEVABLE 6 rounds of qualifying over the first two days when the weather was on our side saw Abi Tether take the No.1 spot. Russ Weir shone throughout eliminations even if the sun didn't and took the win.

VW SPORTSMAN
Winner - Russ Weir
Runner up - Holly Baldwin

RNJ Motorsport Car of the Meeting was awared to Matt Attwood

Presented at Summer Nationals

What a fantastic weekend, (mostly) great weather and great racing. Massive
congratulations to the Winners and Runners-up, to anyone that ran PB's a
massive 'pat on the back'. A Special mention (once again) for Sam Young and the
Black Current team for winning the 'Alternative Energy' day on Friday, and
beating the Tesla handsomely in the process! and by running an 11.2.

VW PRO
Winner: Dave Bridge
Runner-Up: James Hodson

VW SPORTSMAN
Winner: Russ Wier
Runner-Up: Matthew Bennett-Sime

RNJ Motorsport Car of the Meeting was awared to Dave Bridge

A great way to get the season started. OK, so the weather did it's best to
dampen our enthusiasm, but such is life!

Congratulations too go to Dave Bridge - a seasoned veteran in Sportsman
recorded a debut victory in the Pro Class

Dennis Cox also put in a stout performance to record his maiden victory in
Sportsman, with Matt Bennett-Sime doing sterling work in his debut event!

VW PRO
Winner - David Bridge

Runner up - Sam Young

VW SPORTSMAN
Winner - Dennis Cox

Runner up - Matthew Bennett-Sime

RNJ Motorsport Car of the meeting was awarded to Sam Young.

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We've just heard news from Easter Thunderball at Santa Pod where VWDRC Rookie Sam Young has run 12.3737 @ 108mph in his Electric Beetle.

This makes Sam not only the first electric car to race on an equal footing against petrol cars in competition but the quickest electric car in Europe!!

Well done to Sam and his team from all of us in the VWDRC that can't be there to congratulate you in person!

EDIT: Sam actually went on to run 11.95 and 11.98's later on in the weekend, backing up a 11.95 European record! First 'Electric 11' in Europe! Well done Sam!

Sam Young's 'Black Current 3' pic by Darren Walsh of Retro-Motoring.com