Wow... we’re into March already, not long till the opening round of the season. Best get yourselves out to the garage, lockup, barn, or driveway and put the finishing touches to your racecars! But before you do that don't forget to send off your entry forms.

Easter Thunderball and Big Bang Entry forms are now available online.
Closing date for normal priced entries are Friday 12th March for Easter and Friday 2nd April for Big Bang.

http://eurodragster.com/sprc/forms.htm

Look forward to seeing you all at the track soon.

Do us a favour too while you're working on your cars, if you see any other VWDRC-ers who might not get this email, just give them a reminder, we recognise that not everyone is online all the time and a gentle reminder from their mates can be very effective ;)

- Your 2010 Committee

We'd like to take this opportunity to wish a of our followers, friends and racers a verry Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

2010 is set to be a great year for the VWDRC, we had a great AGM and the atmosphere in the club is excellent, we're sure this will follow on to the pits for 2010 and it's already shaping up to be a great year.

See you at the track at Easter!

The VWDRC would like to offer its biggest congratulations to every single person who has been a part of the 2009 Championship.

2009 AGM,Which took place on Sunday 6th December in Northampton, is where we officially crowned our champions and commended our runners-up. Our Thanks go to Brett Hawksbee for presenting this years awards

Well done to James Hodson (VW PRO) and Lucy Matthews (VW SPORTSMAN)for their victories

and Rich Merriman (VW PRO) and Russ Weir (VW SPORTSMAN) for their excellent runner-up performances.

It was a winning weekend for Lucy Matthews who also netted Rookie Of
The Year, and Wagenmeister Driver Of The Year.

The RNJ Motorsport Car Of The Year! went to Rich Merriman.

The Becky Sutton memorial award for services to the club, a huge well done and thank you to Abi, Second year in a row!

We also elected our 2010 committee, which will consist of Danny Allen, Chris Bray, Tom Herbert, Ian Huggan, Polly Naylor, Luke Stevenson, Abi Tether, and Russ Weir.

Full details on the 2009 AGM will follow to members shortly.

The VWDRC AGM is to be held at Marriott Hotel
Eagle Drive,
Northampton

Sunday 6th December 2009 at 12.00 noon

Wow - it's hard to believe it's October already!
The season's over, the Championships are decided and now the planning for 2010 starts in earnest!

Your 2009 Championship Winners are:
VW Pro - James Hodson
VW Sportsman - Lucy Matthews

Your 2009 Championship Runner ups are:
VW Pro - Rich Merriman
VW Sportsman - Russ Weir

The Final Points are now online at http://www.vwdrc.com/points

Congratulations to everyone who took part in the championship this year, it's been a fantastic year and we're looking forward to going bigger, better, harder and faster in 2010!

Wow that was close at the top of VW Sportsman!
It wasn't decided until the final run of the final event but Lucy managed to take not only Rookie of the Year, but the VW Sportsman title and 'first female VW Sportsman winner' by just 10 points! Bad luck Russ and well done to everyone who's raced in VW Sportsman this year!

It wasn't quite so close in VW Pro, but the championship did come down to the final round with James Hodson successfully defending his title. Well done James! Special mention to Rich Merriman who has spent the whole season continually improving in his car into a mean bracket racer, he's made giant steps so far, lets hope the progress continues in 2010!

VW Sportsman

VW Pro

As usual, they're provisional for a little while yet, if you think we've missed you out or gotten anything wrong let us know!

This is it, the last event of the season, it's all still to play for!

We're already setting up in the pits and it's filling up nicely so we hope to see you all down to Santa Pod this weekend for the National Finals!

Hot on the heels of our PVW feature we've got something else you might be interested in...

MotorsTV are broadcasting their coverage of Santa Pod's Easter Thunderball, where you'll see a huge variety of drag cars and bikes in competition, and also an interesting insight into behind the scenes of the National Drag Racing championships.

See Russ Weir and Dean Clatworthy from VW Sportsman and ProET racer Nigel Green interviewed.

Showings:

Thursday 17th September at 15:00.
Friday 18th September at 10:00 and 22:20.
Saturday 19th at 02:20 and 11:30.
Sunday 20th September at 19:15.
Tuesday 22 September at 15:00.
Wednesday 23rd September at 06:00.

They also covered Bug Jam too, showing:

Wednesday 23rd September at 19:05.

As some of you might know, earlier this year at Bug Jam we had a few visitors from Performance VW magazine. The guys from PVW spent the day around the pits, interviewing, chatting, hanging out and generally getting to know the VWDRC with a view to a short feature.

Well the October 2009 issue sees the fruits of that visit, the short feature turned into an 11 page spread but we're not complaining!

Thanks very much to the guys for such a great feature, we're all over the moon with it.
Here's a bit of a taster, but get down your local newsagents and pick up a copy now!

Over the weekend of 4th - 6th September NAS Events will again be putting on the VW Action event at Santa Pod Raceway.

As was the case last year, the boys and girls of the VWDRC will be joining a number of other quick cars on the track on the Saturday night to put on a VW Drag Racing Extravaganza for you to watch.

Keep an eye out for Ian Huggan in the Subaru powered Darkside beetle, and Rich Merriman in his gorgeous orange 12 second bug.

There will also be VWDRC members out on the track on the Sunday in the form of a Peak Performance Day to entertain the crowds and get some practice in advance of the final championship round of the season, the UK National Finals at Santa Pod Raceway from 26th - 27th September.

Come and check out the Action Auction where our brave chairman, Chris Bray, will be getting his head shaved for Brad's Cancer Foundation (www.brads.org.uk). Click here to sponsor him for a worthy cause! - http://www.justgiving.com/chris-bray/