Hi everyone!

Here are the very brief results from the amazing 11^th Annual Dragstalgia event at Santa Pod last weekend, 8^th – 10^th July.

The Wild Bunch had a brilliant field of 39 teams taking part in this amazing event. Brilliant to see such a huge field again and a great variety of cars, with so many regular members, returning teams and a few newcomers all joining in for an amazing weekend’s racing in the sun! There were some great historic matchups, superb performances and a fantastic show from the whole Bunch as always!

We were lucky with the weather this weekend! Completely dry, but very warm throughout!! 21 drivers participated in the extra session on Friday evening.

On Saturday we had three good rounds of practice at 10:45, 3pm and 6:15pm. About 32 teams were out for the first run and 33 for the second and 25 for the third.  It was a good day’s practice for most! Then on the evening around 12 Wild Bunch teams took part in the static ‘Cracklefest’ and put on a great show!!

On Sunday, the Bunch were scheduled for 3 runs. Our first run was around  10:45am. We then had our second round at about 2:45pm, and the third at around 4:45pm, so were all happy with that!

Here are the Top 6 at the event after the 3 rounds of competition, with the average difference to Dial-in shown. Many Congratulations to all!:

1^st Place: Dan Wilson in ‘Antique Toy’ .0381 (many congratulations on the win in your first full WB event!!)

2^nd Place: Rob & Pete Brown in ‘Rebel’ .0384 (soooo close!!)

3^rd Place: James Auld in ‘Little Fauss’ .0507  (fantastic first round, perfect on Dial!)
4^th Place: Bob Morgan in ‘B-Sting’ .0601 (very consistent!)

5^th Place: Liz Malcolm in ‘Jus’ 4 Fun’ .0954 (welcome back Liz!)

6^th Place: Keith Crampton in ‘Soultown Shaker’ .0967 (fab 70’s show from Keith and team!)

Plus the other 6 finishers to complete all 3 rounds without redlights were the following, who all deserve an honourable mention: 7^th – Team Wrathchild, 8^th – Chris Hartnell, 9^th – Jim Tanner, 10^th – Steve Heaven, 11^th – Rich Butcher, 12^th – Callum Swinchatt.

Big thanks to Andy Murphy of ‘B-Sting’ for providing prize money for the Top 3 finishers! Much appreciated!

Here are the Spot Prizes that were won. Many Congratulations to all:-

Closest to Dial-in (in the rounds): James Auld in ‘Little Fauss’ with .0000 off!! (Brilliant!!)

Best Reaction (in the rounds): Bob Morgan in ‘B-Sting’ .071 (Great!)

Quickest E.T. of the event:  Alan Lloyd in ‘Gonzo the Great’ 7.863 (also fastest with 164.85 mph!)

Best Burnout:  Jim Tanner in ‘Shindigger’ (stonkin’ burnouts throughout!) (and he’s in the programme representing the Bunch!)

Best Appearing Car:  Tee Roy in ‘Boston Straggler II’ (great performance!)

Best Appearing Team: Dr Faye Hern and Team ‘Daddy Cool’ (amazing uniforms made by Faye!)

Best Backup Girl: Anna Cassisi for Keith Crampton’s ‘Soultown Shaker’ (fab disco pants Anna!!)

Best Showmanship: Rob & Pete Brown with ‘Rebel’ and ‘Wrathchild’ (including brilliant mask display!)

Spirit of Nostalgia: James Auld and team with ‘Little Fauss’ in its 50^th Anniversary year!!

Commentator’s Choice: Ruaridh Hart with the ‘BraveHart’ Opel funny car, a spectacular debut!!

Many thanks to the trophy presenting team of Ada Cassisi and Bella Hartnell!!

 

Many Congratulations to Bob Hawkins and team finishing Runner-up in the Nostalgia Cannonball with Bob’s blown nitro ‘Time Traveller II’ whilst running some great numbers in the 6.7’s at over 190mph!

Commiserations to all those who had breakages or issues. Hope you can get them fixed real soon!!

Every team put on a fab show and it was fantastic to watch! Well done everyone!! Here is the full field of awesome Wild Bunch participants!!!! The PB’s this weekend were numerous!  Many Congratulations to all who ran their PB’s, shown in this table!!!

 

 

WB 1	Rob & Pete Brown	Rebel
WB 2	Phil James	Rampage
WB 3	Pete & Rob Brown	Wrathchild
WB 4	Steve Heaven	Tight Fit
WB 5	Mark Hartnell	Metal Mistress	9.598 / 138.24
WB 6	Chris Hartnell	Backdraft
WB 19	Wayne Colliver	Misfit
WB 22	Bradley Cooper	Back From The Past	10.832 / 121.24
WB 33	Dan Wilson	Antique Toy	10.128 / 120.15
WB 34	Gary Atkinson	Time Lock 2	9.704 / 135.77
WB 42	Bobby Wright	Alturd	9.623 / 140.26
WB 55	Alan Lloyd	Gonzo The Great
WB 59	Callum Swinchatt	Kings N/W
WB 65	Alan Skipp	Chasin’ Time	132.57 mph
WB 67	Darryl Howells	Chemical Reaction
WB 68	Mick Gleadow	Jurassic Parts 2
WB 69	Alan Loten	Paranoia
WB 72	Dr Faye Hern	Daddy Cool
WB 75	Andy Jackson	Hammerman 2	10.704 / 136.45
WB 76	Steve Field	Black Pig Too
WB 78	Keith Crampton	Soul Town Shaker	9.426 / 143.91
WB 81	Warren Rowlands	Destiny’s Angel
WB 83	Graham Rawlings	Little Digger
WB 85	Terry Clifford	Snake Eyes	9.184 / 142.03
WB 86	Jim Tanner	Shindigger	9.129
WB 87	Angelo Lanni	Henry’s Revenge
WB 90	Tim Roy	Boston Straggler 2	8.357
WB 98	Rob White	Happy Daze
WB 101	Steven East	Ellie’s In Trouble Now
WB 109	Bob Morgan	B-Sting
WB 113	Paul Tarry	Trigger’s Broom	10.733
WB 245	John Sharod	Never Say Never
WB 316	James Auld	Little Fauss
WB 450	Rich Butcher	Forth Dimension
WB 526	Allan Schofield	Rough Diamond	8.443 / 155.75
WB 601	Luca Govoni	Earthquake
WB 626	Liz Malcolm	Jus’ 4 Fun
WB1066	Steve Garlant	Sonic Attack 2	10.953 / 119.02
WB1969	Ruaridh Hart	Bravehart	13.035 / 93.76

 

[Please let me know if I have missed any PB's!!]

 

Highlights of this weekend included: The very large field of awesome Wild Bunch cars and great people, another good showing in the Cracklefest, fantastic backup girls, a brilliant show all round and completing 3 full rounds of racing overall. Everyone in the Bunch really did themselves very proud as always!!  What an awesome weekend for the Wild Bunch!!

Congratulations to everyone who took part!! Many thanks to all the organisers, starters, track and fire and safety crews, marshals and officials, timing crew, Simon and the whole eurodragster.com team, commentators Colin Theobald and Darryl Bradford for excellent commentary as always, and for their support of the Wild Bunch!! Thanks to all the photographers and media, Max Frost and Dan Melrose and team and absolutely everyone at Santa Pod, for all their hard work, to run this brilliant event!! Their amazing efforts are so much appreciated!! We had a wonderful time!!

All the best

Claire JJJ

 

Many apologies for the lateness of these results as I wasn’t feeling too well at the end of the event, with the heat and sun! Then was away a few days! Back again, then away for a week. Plus will update the points asap!! J