Sportsman leader Spencer Tramm helped me out with the points this week, hence they're done real quick, thanks Spencer.

Special congratulations to Shane Rae for his Eurodragster sponsored Perfect ET at this round :)

It's tight at the top of all the classes and it looks like the second half of the season is going to be a good one!

VW Sportsman

For VW powered cars running 13.00 or slower.

VW Alternate Engine

For VW's with non-VW engines.

VW Pro

For VW powered cars running 12.99 or quicker.

Sorry for the late notice but it's that time again! This weekend sees the VWDRC take to the track at the SPRC Summer Nationals at Santa Pod.

There's a whole range of classes on offer this weekend including all 3 of the VW classes, Pro Modified, Top Fuel, and a whole load more!

There's a number of people returning from absence this weekend. Abi Tether is back from a break in her 21 window Samba in VW Sportsman, Steve Parfitt returns to the track in his 'Quarter Pounder' car in VW Pro and Matt Attwood's got the super charger setup back on the Fasty in VW Alternate Engine. Add to that James Hodson's attempt to win back the European Front Wheel Drive record in his Golf and more action from Andy Raw's V8 Beetle funny car and it's a weekend not to miss!

In short, get yourself down to Santa Pod this weekend! Don't miss it.

Here you go, two points updates within an hour! Sadly rain affected Spring Speed this year so we didn't see a full tree of eliminations.

VW Sportsman

For VW powered cars running 13.00 or slower.

VW Alternate Engine

For VW's with non-VW engines.

VW Pro

For VW powered cars running 12.99 or quicker.

As ever, these points values are provisional, I've yet to fully check them over, I usually make at least one mistake!

What a great weekend Big Bang 2008 was! Sorry for the delay, with two events in two weeks it's been kinda busy round here!

VW Sportsman

For VW powered cars running 13.00 or slower.

VW Alternate Engine

For VW's with non-VW engines.

VW Pro

For VW powered cars running 12.99 or quicker.

As ever, these points values are provisional, I've yet to fully check them over, I usually make at least one mistake!

Yes, just days after Big Bang the VWDRC is out racing again!

This weekend sees Shakespeare County Raceway's Springspeed 2008 event, at Shakespeare County Raceway near Stratford-upon-Avon.

Sadly due to the damage suffered by many of our cars last weekend we're a slightly depleted field this weekend but we still think it's gonna be a good one!

Come join us this weekend (3rd, 4th and 5th May 2008) at Shakespeare County Raceway near Stratford-upon-Avon for a great bank holiday weekend of racing.

Yes, that's right folks, people have been talking about it for months but Big Bang 2008 is nearly here!

We've got a massive entry in all three VWDRC classes and a number of other classes booked in to race too.

Big Bang also offers VW owners the first chance to run your own car on the strip at a festival, and don't forget, if you want to take it further feel free to come and see the VWDRC in the pits where we'll be launching our new range of merchandising!

The weather is looking good, the racers are chomping at the bit and it looks like it's going to be an excellent weekend.

Last weekend saw the 2008 Volksworld show.

The Volksworld show is one of the world's premier VW events and attracts the cream of the European VW scene.

The VWDRC had five cars on its stand, Raceshack's "Shrekker", Colin Jardine's lovely Silver Oval, Wayne Allman's "Mental Breakdown" pickup, Andy Raw's 2007 trophy winning Funnycar and Danny Wharton's lovely blue cal-looker.

We also had and a further two on the Big Bang stand, Justin Rivett's white turbo car and Steve Parfitt's newly painted green/purple/gold Bug.

Boy did they look good!

The great news is that the VWDRC swept the board, taking no less than four of the "Top Twenty" awards for Conor, Colin, Wayne and Danny car's and with "Best Tech" award going to Wayne Allman too it was a really successful day!

The VWDRC would like to extend it's congratulations to all of the prize winners, we know it's not easy to build a car that's both "show and go" so well done guys!

More pictures are available in the Volksworld 2008 Gallery

After quite a stressful start to the 2008 season where we wondered if we were going to run at all we did get a full tree run, a huge well done to Spencer, Andy and Mick for their victories and a special mention to Russ Weir for making the final in his first event.

VW Sportsman

For VW powered cars running 13.00 or slower.

VW Alternate Engine

For VW's with non-VW engines.

VW Pro

For VW powered cars running 12.99 or quicker.

As ever, these points values are provisional, I've yet to fully check them over, I usually make at least one mistake!

After a decent first days qualifying and the write off that was Day Two and a still night we were optimistic for more action, but we woke on the morning of Day Three to the worst possible start, a thick coating of snow!

The race director took his decision early and called the day off just after nine and with the news that we would go straight for eliminations tomorrow, anyone who didn't put a qualifying pass in on Friday was out.

The pits is now quite empty as people start the journey home early with many having given up for the weekend...

The VWDRC have already presented one trophy, the RNJ Motorsport 'Car of the Meet' award, to VW Sportsman's Helen Williams for the effort she's put in getting to the track for her first race. Well done Helen!

We're looking forward to Day Four tomorrow :) We'll be reporting results as soon as they happen :)