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As many of you will know after a 2 year tenure running in VW Alternate Engine and winning the 2004 and 2005 championships I wandered off into the distance to try my hand first at Super Gas and then Super Pro ET.

After becoming SPRC Super Gas champion and National Championship Runner-Up in 2005 with the trusty 468ci (7.6 litre) engine that propelled the Corrado to a best of 9.10 @ 145mph, I took most of 2006 off to crew for a Super Pro ET dragster and occasionally dabbling in Competition Eliminator.

At the beginning of 2007 I decided to celebrate my impending 30th and my Dad's 60th (still now we race as a family) by having Jeff Bull Race Engines build a new 555ci (9.1 litre) engine ready for Easter and moving up to Super Pro ET.

For those that don't know, Super Pro ET is full mainly of dragsters with a smattering of door cars and altereds running under 8.99 seconds. The car was readied the day before Easter and I set off to Chris Isaacs to collect the car, after suffering 3 mishaps on the way to the track all was set to run the engine in on Friday and blast an 8 on Saturday morning, the day of my Dad's birthday. After keeping my toe in a bit too long an 8.79 shutoff run spoiled that, but at least we had run the 8 we so wanted.

Easter finished with an 8.60 best and a semi final finish. The plan was to run just at the Pod and leave Avon Park out due to holiday contraints. After Avon was rained out meant that by the time the Main Event rolled around we were still in the top five.

Friday of the Main Event reminded me of what the extra 1.5 litres was capable of as I nuked the gearbox on the startline and had to sit and watch the others run. Thankfully the rains came (how many people have said that?!) and no ground was lost.

Summer Nats is my worst meeting always, it was one I could never win even in AE and a 2nd round redlight proved my luck wasn't about to change. This left a quandry, to go to Avon or not.

We eventually went and landed a semi final finish redlighting to the Giles and Hartley team who along with Steve Johnson both have 30 years experience each and were my closest rivals.

The Euro Finals is the biggest meeting of the year with 28 cars turning up, things were looking bad when first Steve Johnson and then Giles and Hartley both ran dead on the dial to the thousandth! No pressure we ran a perfect run the next session, to end up third, in the end Steve Pateman from Street Eliminator ran perfect too and 4 of us ended up perfect.

For those that haven't been to a Euro Finals you arrive on a Wednesday, qualify on a Thursday and Friday and run round one on Saturday and 9am, to run on finals day you have to win 2 rounds which we did over John Tebenham (Ford Probe) and Steve Neimantis (Aston Martin), finals day saw us defeat Steve Green, Barry Giles and Steve Johnson to win my first Super Pro meeting and take the points lead with one round to go.

The National Finals was a bit odd, Barry Giles broke out when his opponent broke, this meant a 2nd round win over Chris Orthodoxou and we were champions, Chris redlit and it was all over. A fantastic year and we were the first 'door car' to win Super Pro in 4 years!

A big thanks to my superb crew (who are all V-Dubbers) George and Rachel Georgiou, Steve and Adele Woodbridge and Ady Goodier.

To all those that said it couldn't be done, it can!

Spencer

p.s I've bored you enough now but hopefully later in the week I will have pics of the new Sportsman VW beast!

There are again 7 races in 2008 with any competitors best 6 counting towards the national championship.

There is a 100 point bonus for attending the first event.

There is a 100 point bonus for attending the final event.

There is a 100 point bonus for attending 6 events in the season.

Round 1 - Easter Thunderball

All the VW classes plus National Drag Racing Championships, Pro-Fuel Shootout - Top Fuel Dragsters, Funny Cars, Street Eliminator Series plus Rocket Bike, Jet Cars, Jet Trucks, Jet Beetle, Monster Truck and an extravaganza of moto stunts and displays.

Round 2 - Big Bang

Many racer's favorite event, Big Bang will once again host a whole line-up of great things to do on and off the track, day time and night time.

The best way to enjoy Big Bang is to camp over with your mates and take things at a relaxed pace. This is the most chilled-out VW show on the calendar!

Round 3 - Spring Nationals

Mixed drag racing event up in Shakespeare's Stratford.

Round 4 - Summer Nationals

All the VW classes plus MSA British Championship for Top Methanol plus all sportsman classes plus The Wild Bunch, Nostalgia Altereds and Drag Bikes inc. SuperTwins. Jet Car demos and track displays.

Round 5 - Bug Jam 22

For a full Bug Jam 21 report and gallery visit: www.bugjam.co.uk.

"Europe's No.1 Summer VW Festival" VW Drag Racing, RWYB track action, Super Mod, VW Traders, 4 music arenas, Top DJs, Comedy shows, Funfair, Mr & Miss Bug Jam, Show & Shine plus weekend camping.

Round 6 - Open Sports Nationals

Mixed drag racing event up in Shakespeare's Stratford.

Round 7 - National Finals

All the VW classes plus MSA British Championship Finals for Top Methanol plus all sportsman classes plus The Wild Bunch, Nostalgia Altereds, Drag Bikes inc SuperTwins. Jet Car demos and track displays.

Remember guys, entries have to be in THREE WEEKS before the start of the meeting or you'll be charged double for entering late...

thanks to everyone that attended, was a great day, shame about the weather :(

we will have another in the summer you will all be welcome :)

Look like I'm out for the year :(

Exactly a year and a day after the last one :(

Thanks for a great start to the season, sadly it doesn't look like I'm gonna be at any more races.

Taken from http://www.chrisbray.co.uk

At the end of Day One of the Spring Speed event at Shakespeare County Raceway it's been an awesome day, great weather and very few stoppages.

Rookie Steve Parfitt sits at the top of the qualifying ladder, Mark Malone in second but with news of yet more damage to his gearbox time will tell what if any further role Mark will play.
Graham Fairhead fills in third in his Fastback.
Matt Attwood makes the move over to Sportsman for the weekend due to lack of entries in Alternate Engine (nice one Angie for lending him your car!) and takes fourth. Rounding out the top five is Martin Ayton, still in the stand-in Audi but after a second meeting finding some consistency.

We're looking forward to another great day tomorrow :)

We've just heard news from Santa Pod about todays Peak Performance test day. Two of our VW Pro drivers were in attendance, and unfortunately both had problems!

Paul Lay had a big moment in his "Playtime" car when a rear tyre blew just past the 1/8th mile trap and spun the car into the wall and onto it's roof! There looks to be severe damage to the car but fortunately Paul's ok.

There was mixed news for Scott Evison, he had a great morning going 11.0 with his new turbo motor, it all sadly ended in tears as a 10.8 on the second run resulted in severe engine damage and a fire in the engine bay. It looks like the engine has been totally destroyed :(

It was great to see the VWDRC with such a large presence at the Volksworld Show this year. In my opinion we should be doing more of this - attending/displaying at ‘static’ events. Even though our cars are built for racing, displaying at other VW events definitely raises the profile of the club.

Danny Wharton's Cal Looker by Richie Grant
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It was nice to see ‘Rookie’ Danny Wharton’s car on the Volksworld stand/display and Wayne Allman’s latest (mentalist) creation rubbing shoulders with all the Splits and Bays in the Esher Hall. Danny Allen and Martin ‘Stretch’ Charles added their fine vehicles to the Big Bang/Santa Pod stand.

The VWDRC display itself featured the new A/E Funny Car of Andy Raw, Rhod Price’s reworked 912, Peter Christie’s beautiful flamed Ghia which he had brought all the way down from Scotland, Conor ‘Raceshack’ LaGrue’s gorgeous new Crewcab Splittie, Daz Coleman’s ever-so-clean Scooby Bug and Joe Gallagher’s amazing new Split Crewie. Well done to all, you guys did the club very proud.

Special pats on the back and congratulations go out to Wayne and Andy on their awards. Wayne collected a Top 20 award, while Andy received the much-coveted ‘Peoples’ Choice’ (as voted by the paying public) award.

The Volksworld Show at Sandown proved to be a great start to our historic 20th season . . . roll on the race shows.

Martin Charles' Betelgeuse
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Andy Raw collects his prize
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Andy Raws V8 Funny Car
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A Beautiful Flame Job on Flatfire's Ghia
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Danny Allen - If
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Wayne Allman Collects his prize for that mental pickup.
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The VWDRC Committee is both pleased and proud to announce its largest sponsorship deal for racers since the mid-nineties. With over 20 companies getting involved, 2007 will see the largest prize fund for the winning driver in each of the three classes ever. All three classes, VW Pro, VW Sportsman and VW Alternate Engine will run decals featuring all of the companies’ logos and the prize fund payout at the end of the season for each of the three classes will be as follows:

Champion £650, Runner-up £400 and Third Place £200.

It is fitting that in this, the VWDRC’s 20th consecutive year of Championship Drag Racing that the Champions will receive their largest ever reward alongside the trophy and prestige of being Champion of their class.

The companies involved are: Aircooled Performance, Bears Motorsport Transmissions, Eastfalia, Graffix Detail, GSF Car Parts, HIC Insurance, Intergalactic Custom Shop, Kingfisher Kustoms, L.A. Performance, Machine 7, NAS Events, Nefarious Pinstriping, Odd-Ball Import Ltd, Raceshack, Skibbly TV, Slook.co.uk, Stateside Tuning, Street Style & Power, TSR Engine Conversions, Type Three Detectives, Volksworld Magazine, Volkszone.com, VW Heritage.

If you are a fan of VW Drag Racing, when ordering goods, parts or services, please remember those companies who have ‘given something back’.

The season is nearly here! The Easter Thunderball deadline for entries at normal price (£150 with single phase electric, £180 with three phase) is TOMORROW (16th March)!

First class post should still arrive tomorrow morning so get your entries posted NOW to get in before the prices go up!

Entry sheets availiable from our Downloads Page or Direct from the SPRC.

Also since it's only three weeks away there may not be time to get your license application (from here or from our downloads page here) returned unless you specify the express option. We've had reports of the MSA taking a little time and having trouble with the production of the new style license so if you intend to race at Easter, and havn't sent your application yet we suggest you use the express service (extra charge applies) to make sure you recieve your license in time.

Only three weeks to go before first race!

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