Hi everybody! Here is the news from the fantastic 36^th NSRA ‘Hot Rod Drags’ on 13^th - 15^th September, at Santa Pod. A fantastic event where we were lucky with the weather and completed 3 full rounds, despite some late sprinkles of rain!!

This event was Wild Bunch Series Round 4, Spirit of Nostalgia Series Round 6 and Roy Wilding Nostalgia Race Cars Series Round 3 (Final). The Wild Bunch had an excellent total of 29 teams participating at the event: 9 altereds, 17 slingshots, 1 rear-engined dragster and 2 funny cars, with 1 British Drag Racing Hall of Fame members amongst them tuning their car with their son driving! 24 teams participated in the competition rounds on Sunday.

Huge Thanks to all of our fantastic Sponsors this weekend! So very much appreciated! …

Keith Crampton of Wiz Training & Development Ltd for sponsoring 1^st - 4^th place Trophies and

NSC Tool Supplies (1 Spot Prize & prize fund) & Field of Dreams CL caravan site (1 Spot Prize & prize fund), Team Bravehart (Prize fund for 1^st place & Moment of the Weekend Spot Prize), Team Banshee (1 Spot Prize), Charles Bang Special  (Best Appearing Team Spot Prize), C&C Nostalgia Drag Racing (Best Appearing Car Spot Prize), Hollins Hot Rods (Best Burnout Spot Prize) and Anonymous (1 Spot Prize)

Here are the Top 4 and Spot Prize winners:

1^st Place: James Auld in ‘Little Fauss’  .0413 average

2^nd Place: James Griffen in ‘Kiss my Gas’  .0511 average

3^rd Place: Andy Roy in ‘Shawcrank Redemption’ .0723 average

4^th Place: Ruaridh Hart in ‘Bravehart’ .0741 average

 

With these results, James Auld is now the confirmed Winner of the 2024 Wild Bunch Series and the Roy Wilding Nostalgia Race Cars Series! Many Congratulations to James on his first ever Series wins! 

The results also mean that Team Rebel have Won the 2024 Spirit of Nostalgia Challenge Series! This is their 3rd time of winning this Series! Many Congratulations to all of them!

Here are the fantastic Spot Prizes fabricated by Elaine of Coolengineeredart that were awarded:-

Closest to Dial-in (Race-day): Dan Wilson in ‘Antique Toy’ .003 off

Best Reaction (Race-day): Ruaridh Hart in ‘Bravehart’ .107 

Best Burnout: Bob Hawkins in ‘Time Traveller II’ (fantastic smoky burnouts!)

Best Appearing Car:  The Joneses with ‘Ragin’ Cajun’ (very well turned out car and a great UJ repair!)

Best Appearing Team:  C&C Nostalgia Drag Racing Team with ‘Backdraft’ (a real great team effort this whole weekend!)

Moment of the Weekend: Frankie Taylor in ‘Banshee’ (for a great save when way out of shape!)

Driver’s Choice: to be confirmed

Commentator’s Choice: Ford Skipp in ‘Chasin’ Time’ (for fantastic PB’s of 8.302 and 166.70 mph!)

NSRA Quickest E.T. in WILD BUNCH:  Bob Hawkins in ‘Time Traveller II’ 6.682 !!

 

Here are all the 29 participants:

 

Dan Wilson	Antique Toy
Rob & Pete Brown	Rebel
James Auld	Little Fauss
Phil James	Rampage
Lee & Mark Hartnell	Backdraft
Antony Colliver	From Hell
Pete & Rob Brown	Wrathchild
Terry Clifford	Ratcatcher Resurrection
Bobby Wright	Alturd
James Griffen	Kiss My Gas
Gavin Meanley & Pete Ayres	Charles Bang Special
Alan Lloyd	Gonzo The Great
Ford Skipp	Chasin’ Time
Mick Gleadow	Jurassic Parts II
Terry Robbins	Soultown Shaker
Graham Rawlings	Rawspeed
Andy Clifford	Snake Eyes
Andy Roy	Shawcrank Redemption
Bob Hawkins	Time Traveller II
Frankie Taylor	Banshee
Rob White	Happy Daze
Paul Tarry	Trigger’s Broom
Ian Wild	WildScat
Joey Childs	Boxo Bomb
Dan & Elliott Jones	Ragin’ Cajun
Ian Armitage	Ex-Grumpy Monkey
Vinny Butcher	4orth Dimension
Steve Garlant & Vinnie	Sonic Attack II
Ruaridh Hart	BraveHart

 

More news will be added when possible!

Excellent to see a really big field of great cars and teams for our final RWYB-type event of the season!

Friday was a Run-What-You-Brung day and 13 teams were out testing that day.

On Saturday we had 3 rounds scheduled during the Race class sections of the day. Our first session took place around 11:00am and our second at 4:00pm, a fair bit after the scheduled time. Due to a lot of downtime during the day, there was only time for the two rounds.

Unfortunately, due to all of the downtime during the day, the ‘Cracklefest’ had to be cancelled.

On Sunday, we ran our first round at about 10:00am. Our second was around 2:15pm, and the third around 4:15pm. Overall we were very lucky considering there were some spots of rain during the queue for both our 2^nd and 3^rd rounds! Fair play to all at Santa Pod for getting all the racing completed!  So it was great to get 3 rounds in!

Here are the PBs (and there were a lot of them!!!):

 

Lee Hartnell	Backdraft	8.862 / 148.09
Bobby Wright	Alturd	141.65
Ford Skipp	Chasin’ Time	8.302 / 166.70
Matt Hollins	Chasin’ Time	8.716 / 169.16
Terry Robbins	Soultown Shaker	10.145 / 136.54
Graham Rawlings	Rawspeed	9.513
Andy Clifford	Snake Eyes	8.589
Frankie Taylor	Banshee	129.89
Ian Wild	WildScat	120.48
Vinny Butcher	4orth Dimension	12.005 / 114.00 (car PB ET)
Isaac Butcher	4orth Dimension	13.160 / 109.62
Ruaridh Hart	BraveHart	10.158 / 128.86

 

[Please do let me know if I have missed any!!]

Many Congratulations to all those who ran PB’s at the weekend, especially those who kept setting and re-setting them!! Brilliant!! 

Huge commiserations to all those who had issues and best of luck with the repairs for next season!!

Highlights of the weekend include the large and awesome field of Wild Bunch, completing 3 rounds of great competition, and of course the brilliant group of cars and people, who all put on a fantastic show and did themselves proud as usual!!

Huge thanks to all the Santa Pod marshals and officials, track and safety and medical crews and organisers and Alan Martin, Martyn Payne and all at the NSRA for all their hard work!! It is so much appreciated!! Another excellent event!!  Thanks to all on the eurodragster team this weekend, especially Graham for his excellent reporting and mention of our sponsors and the photography team!! Thanks to Colin Theobold for great commentary!

Again, a massive well done to all of the Wild Bunch for a brilliant show as always!! 

C