Bug Jam 24 - What a weekend!

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.