2025 SFI Inspections Tour dates
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With the start of the 2025 drag racing season not that far away anymore, it’s time for the 2025 SFI Inspections Tour. Like last year the first stop will be in the UK at Santa Pod Raceway as the drag racing season always starts early there. This will give the racers more time to prepare for the first event after having their parts inspected.
Continue readingLiam Jones and Alex Hope team up in TF and PSM under the “Fuelled By Bro Joe” banner
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Liam Jones and Alex Hope will be reunited in 2025, Fuelled By Bro Joe. The team will field a Top Fuel Dragster for Liam Jones in the FIA European Drag Racing Championship and a Pro Stock Motorcycle for Alex Hope in the FIM Europe European Drag Bike Championship. Main partner for the team will be Bro Joe Brain-Boosting Coffee, an instant coffee blend designed to increase focus, clarity, and mental resilience.
Continue readingAmerican Jake Opatrny to enter FIA European Top Fuel Championship
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The American Top Fuel driver Jake Opatrny will take part in next year’s FIA European Drag Racing Championship. Opatrny, from McHenry, Illinois, will drive Jens Jonsson’s Nitrobear Top Fueler. The participation of Opatrny is great news for the championship as it will definitely raise the American interest in the FIA European Drag Racing Championship.
Continue readingFIM-E Champions Review – Rikard Gustafsson – FIM-E Top Fuel Bike
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Sweden’s man in black, Rikard Gustafsson eased to the 2024 FIM-E Top Fuel championship winning three events and runner-up in the remaining two and posting some quick and consistent numbers along the way. While the Falkenberg based RG Engineering team plans for 2025 are slightly up in the air, Gustafsson welcomes a new sponsor on board for the forthcoming season.
Continue readingAfter a bad start Jonny Lagg comes back to claim the 2024 FIA European Top Methanol Championship
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For Jonny Lagg the 2024 season started as a nightmare with seven ‘up in smokes’ and no decent ET on the scoreboards. The first turning point was the semifinal at the SpeedEvents Internationals where the Swede suddenly stormed to a winning 5.31 seconds. With the problems solved, Lagg ran a string of 5.3-second runs to claim wins at the Summit Racing Equipment Internationals and Hockenheim, and the 2024 FIA European Top Methanol title as the final result.
Continue readingFIM-E Champions Review – Alan Morrison Jnr – FIM-E Super Street Bike
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At the start of 2024 a FIM-E Super Street Bike championship repeat for Alan Morrison Jnr looked a long shot, but bouncing back from an early exit at Santa Pod, wins and late round finishes in the remaining four rounds saw the title heading back to the South West of England in September for the second time.
Continue readingJere Rantaniemi at the right moment into the number one position
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Although being one of the frontrunners all season long, there was not a single moment during the season that Jere Rantaniemi was leading the 2024 FIA European Pro Modified Championship. But at the most decisive and most important moment of the season, the semifinals of the European Finals, Rantaniemi was there. The Finn won his elimination round, took over the number one position in the points standings and claimed his first FIA European Pro Modified title. Timing is everything.
Continue readingFIM-E Champions Review – Marcus Christiansen – FIM-E Super Twin Bike
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Coming into 2024 the FIM-E Super Twin field was once again trying to knock the dominant father and son pairing of Claus (Speedy) and Marcus Christiansen off their perch, but the season proved to be one of their very best, taking all five event wins. We caught up with Marcus to ask him on his reflections on the year.
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