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.

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.

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

Great news this week as the class sponsors for this year’s championships were finalised. TSR Engine Conversions and Bears Motorsport continue as Pro Class sponsors,

The club are still accepting offers for sponsorship – if you are interested, or if you know of anyone who may be interested, please get in touch with a committee member!

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.