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Easter Thunderball Reminder!

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


Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year

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!


Official Notification of Annual General Meeting 2009

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

Sunday 6th December 2009 at 12.00 noon


Wow! What a season!

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!


Final 2009 Championship Points!

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


DriverEaster ThunderballBig BangSpring Speed FestivalSummer NationalsBug JamOpen Sports NationalsNational FinalsBonusTotal
Lucy Matthews440
RNJ Motorsport
Car of the Meeting
Eurodragster.com Perfect ET Award
8206802302104101002890
Russ Weir830730460101605901002880
Luke Stevenson360250330310320510780
RNJ Motorsport
Car of the Meeting
1002710
Chris Bray2703401401502706404601002230
Polly Naylor3704502303004202301002100
Martin Ayton3301903803001802001001680
Abi Tether2801402701402603601001550
Dean Clatworthy21010310
RNJ Motorsport
Car of the Meeting
2402202501001340
Holly Baldwin460
RNJ Motorsport
Car of the Meeting
3104701240
Mark Malone5504001901140
Michael Outhwaite2102602004401110
Helen Williams130110140230270880
Dennis Cox220120220190750
Paul Phelpstead250180310740
Dave Bridge530190720
Craig Allen280370650
Brett Mann220380600
Jacob Bailey270130170570
Tom Herbert110150220480
Lynn Cox110170170450
Paul Day260160420
Mark Skeen150150300
Gary Lumley300300
Ben Putland290290
Koen Freyman280280
Paul Herbert260260
Rich Jones210210
Graeme Freeman130130
Ian Huggan120120
Philip Woodward120120

VW Pro

DriverEaster ThunderballBig BangSpring NationalsSummer NationalsBug JamOpen Sports NationalsNational FinalsBonusTotal
James Hodson3705404102403301890
Rich Merriman510150
RNJ Motorsport
Car of the Meeting
2701702801380
Ian Huggan120200520840
Phil Norman220380120720
Colin Jardine670670
Brian Burrows260160
RNJ Motorsport
Car of the Meeting
420
Matt Attwood190230420
Martin Charles240110350
Jacob Bailey120210330
Andy Raw130190320
David Downes290290
Danny Wharton220220
Scott Evison210210
Russ Fellowes180180
Michael Geraghty150150
Simon Khoury140140
Stuart Hodgson130130
Matt Dane110110
Ian Dale1010
Luke Stevenson1010

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!


SPRC National Finals This Weekend!

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!


MotorsTV Cover the VWDRC

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.


Performance VW Feature the VWDRC!

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!


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Upcoming Events!

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/


Points After Open Sports Nationals

It's hotting up in VW Sportsman now, could go any one of about six ways at the National Finals in September!

Thanks to Martin and Abi for working them out :)

VW Sportsman


DriverEaster ThunderballBig BangSpring Speed FestivalSummer NationalsBug JamOpen Sports NationalsNational FinalsBonusTotal
Lucy Matthews440
RNJ Motorsport
Car of the Meeting
Eurodragster.com Perfect ET Award
8206802302102380
Russ Weir830730460101602190
Luke Stevenson3602503303103205101002180
Chris Bray2703401401502706401001910
Polly Naylor3704502303004201770
Martin Ayton3301903803001802001001680
Holly Baldwin460
RNJ Motorsport
Car of the Meeting
3104701240
Mark Malone5504001901140
Abi Tether2801402701402601090
Dean Clatworthy21010310
RNJ Motorsport
Car of the Meeting
240220990
Dennis Cox220120220190750
Dave Bridge530190720
Michael Outhwaite210260200670
Craig Allen280370650
Helen Williams130110140230610
Brett Mann220380600
Jacob Bailey270130170570
Lynn Cox110170170450
Paul Phelpstead250180430
Paul Day260160420
Mark Skeen150150300
Ben Putland290290
Koen Freyman280280
Paul Herbert260260
Tom Herbert110150260
Rich Jones210210
Graeme Freeman130130
Ian Huggan120120
Philip Woodward120120

VW Pro

DriverEaster ThunderballBig BangSpring NationalsSummer NationalsBug JamOpen Sports NationalsNational FinalsBonusTotal
James Hodson3705404102401560
Rich Merriman510150
RNJ Motorsport
Car of the Meeting
2701701100
Phil Norman220380120720
Colin Jardine670670
Brian Burrows260160
RNJ Motorsport
Car of the Meeting
420
Matt Attwood190230420
Martin Charles240110350
Ian Huggan120200320
Andy Raw130190320
David Downes290290
Danny Wharton220220
Scott Evison210210
Russ Fellowes180180
Michael Geraghty150150
simon Khoury140140
Stuart Hodgson130130
Jacob Bailey120120
Matt Dane110110
Ian Dale1010
Luke Stevenson1010

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!


 
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