This weekend the rescheduled Festival of Power will take place Friday to Sunday at Santa Pod Raceway. For many fans, it will be the first race of the year that they will be able to stay over at the track. Here's a preview of the line-up of racing which you can see at our event index.
Funny Car has 2 cars match racing this weekend with Patrik Pers in the Speedghost Dodge Charger and 2023 3rd place Jason Phelps in his Gladiator Camry.
Motorsport UK Pro Modified has a strong field of 7 cars entering the event, 2023 winner Bobby Wallace in his Chevy Camaro will be running with Jean Dulamon, Chris Orthodoxou, Eurodragster.com sponsor Andy Robinson and Andres Arnover. Andres gained his new PB last weekend at Santa Pod with an outstanding run of 5.82/215mph.
In Nostalgia Funny Car we will see 5 cars this weekend with Tony Betts in Venom Chevy Camaro, Wendy Barker in her Timewarp Mustang, Paul Harris with his Monza, Andy Raw with the Nitro Bug and Tim Garlick with Apache Firebird.
Trackworx Comp Eliminator includes Rouven Dawson and Nic Williams both in Capo Camaro's, Gary Carr in the Nova and Spencer Tramm with his Camaro. With a 12-car field, we are looking forward to seeing these run.
W.A. Watts Automotive Super Comp with an 8-car field, Andy Clifford with his Slingshot Snake Eyes, Steven Hudson has his 1927 Model T Altered and 2023 winner Leah Kellett in her HRC Dragster.
In Tony Morris Carburetors Super Gas sees Tim Moore in his 55’ Chevrolet Bel-Air, Victor Parson with the Plymouth Belvedere and Andy Dibley in Camaro SS; a 12-car field will bring some great races.
Peter Nee Super Pro ET has a strong field of 24 cars, 2023 winner Alan Didwell with the S&H Dragster, Tom Atkinson in the Ford Cortina Estate and Andrew Thetford with his 1969 Z28 Camaro.
In Modurstang Pro ET has the biggest field for the event with 40-cars, Leigh Morris winner from last year picking up 3600 points in his Jaguar E-Type, former Junior Dragster and Sportsman ET racer Matthew Dowdy in his Chevrolet Nova and Marc Huxley in his Toyota Corolla KE20.
In Hutchinson & Dibley Sportsman ET with a strong 29-car field returning Peter Walters into Sportsman ET with his new Z28 Camaro, remaining champion Gary Lake in the Pontiac Firebird, Kirstie Tramm in the 50 Shades of Green Camaro and Jane McCready in the Ford Escort "Ben's Van".
VP Lubricants Nostalgia Super Stock has an 8-car field. TMC Outlaw Anglia has 5-cars will bring Eurodragster.com sponsor Colin Millar in The Flyin Fyfer Ford Anglia and Ben Kennedy in his Ford Pop. Pro Race Engineering VW Pro with good field of 16-car.
Quantum Leap Racing VW Sportsman has a 24 strong field, 2023 winner Paul Robinson with his Audi TT V6, Andy Cooper in the Skoda VRS and Lowri Anslow in the Seat Leon.
In the ACU Drag Bike Championship, there are 4 Ashdown Bulk Haulage Top Fuel Bikes, including Steve Woollatt with his PBR bike and three class competition debuts from Jiri Lukes, Kev Charman and Phil Crossley. In Suzukiperformancespares.co.uk Competition Bike, there is a 17-bike field with 2023 winner Mark Dainty with his Hayabusa.
JKE Race Works 8.50 Bike ET Bike has 11-bikes, Craig Wright currently in number one spot after Easter Nationals with his Hayabusa bike. Taylor's Trophy Super Street Bike, Alan Morrison Junior winner of 2023 championship with his 1300cc Hayabusa and first time out this year for Steve Venables. Atlantic Fluid Tech 9.50 Bike, with 3-bikes including Dave Hall on his Suzuki GSXR 1100L bike. Warpspeed Racing ET Bike with a strong 21-bike field, Liam Holgate finished in 2nd place last year with his Suzuki GSXR 1000 bike.
In addition to this the Lucas Oil Junior Dragsters and Eurodragster.com Junior Drag Bikes will have large fields of racers and there will be a wealth of exhibition vehicles and family attractions at SPR. Exhibition vehicles include jets Fireforce 3 and Fireforce 5 (Martin Hill driving), Spiderman (Julian Webb driving), Firestorm (Roger Goring driving) and Oklahoma Willy Jet Bus (Perry Watkins driving).
The Live Action Arena will have Podzilla Monster Truck, a Stunt Display by Terry Grant, Lee Bowers and drift display by Team Maximum Lock. There is a huge variety of entertainment for kids, and bands on Friday and Saturday nights.
You can see an overall timetable of events by going to this link on the SPR website and come back to Eurodragster.com for up to date results and race commentaries. The event is also live streamed, go to the links on our event index page.
