The second and final day of qualifying for the 2024 NitrOlympX again took place under clear skies and in high temperatures. This afternoon\u2019s final qualifying sessions of FIA Pro Stock, FIA Top Fuel Dragster and all of the FIM Europe Drag Bike Championship classes had to be cancelled after France\u2019s Jean Dulamon suffered a high-speed crash in the final FIA Pro Modified qualifying session. Jean\u2019s Camaro made a move left and then right and rolled over, impacting the right guardrail with its roof at half track and then righting itself. In the latest practical demonstration of the necessity and efficacy of drag racing\u2019s strict construction and safety regulations Jean got himself out of the car and made his own way to the ambulance to be checked out at the Hockenheimring\u2019s Medical Centre. (Update, 25\/08\/2024: Jean did not suffer any serious injuries).<\/p>\n
Jndia Erbacher\u2019s wayward 4.177\/412.10 in yesterday\u2019s first qualifying session was still good for top qualifier in FIA Top Fuel Dragster<\/strong> after today\u2019s third session. In difficult conditions, courtesy of 30+ C heat and 50+ C track temperatures, Sweden\u2019s Susanne Callin was still able to improve to 4.778\/255.21 to take second place from Linn Engan Fl\u00f8ysvik who went third with current Championship leader, Malta\u2019s Duncan Micallef, in fourth and Sweden\u2019s Dennis Nilsson in fifth.<\/p>\n In an overnight shock FIA Top Methanol<\/strong> top qualifier Sandro Bellio withdrew from the event with severe engine damage and his participation in September\u2019s FIA European Finals is also in doubt. After a nightmare day yesterday not being able to record a time in either session Germany\u2019s Silvio Strauch more than redeemed himself today with a best of 5.565\/405.56 good for third place behind Swede Jonny Lagg\u2019s best of 5.386\/434.36 set yesterday. Sweden\u2019s Tony Bryntesson is fourth with an improved 5.590\/418.45 in his nitro-burning dragster and Germany\u2019s Jurgen Nagel improved and went into the fives with a 5.971\/387.13.<\/p>\n Estonia\u2019s Andres Arnover took over top spot in FIA Pro Modified<\/strong>, into the fives with a 5.963\/401.22 in this morning\u2019s first session and Sweden\u2019s Roger Johansson went from bottom place to second also in the fives at 5.984\/393.16. Norwegian Stian Rus\u00e5nes\u2019 6.002\/368.17 from yesterday was still good for third place. Fifteen cars qualified for tomorrow\u2019s eliminations although fourteen will actually be racing after Jean Deulamon\u2019s unfortunate accident.<\/p>\n Placings in FIA Pro Stock<\/strong> have not changed since yesterday although most racers improved their ETs. Sweden\u2019s Jimmy \u00c5lund is top with yesterday\u2019s 6.618\/336.42 and Michael Malmgren remains second with yesterday\u2019s best. Robin Nor\u00e9n remains third although improved to 6.754\/331.95, Simon Ekengren fourth with an improved 6.752\/329.63, Lasse Britsmar fifth after improving to 6.805\/326.21 and Stefan Ernryd in sixth with yesterday\u2019s best.<\/p>\n The anticipated new European record was set in this morning\u2019s qualifying session of FIM Europe Super Street Bike<\/strong> when the bump spot \u2013 the sixteenth and final qualifying place guaranteeing participation in tomorrow\u2019s eliminations \u2013 was lowered to 7.400 seconds, beating the previous European best of 7.527 coincidentally also set at Hockenheim. The lucky sixteenth of twenty five was Germany\u2019s Clemens Walleit. In a close-fought session the UK\u2019s Jake Mechaell held on to his lead with yesterday\u2019s best of 6.810\/350.53. Two more racers, The Netherlands\u2019 Margot Schmidt and Greece\u2019s Christos Agapidis, made it below seven seconds making a total of five in the sixes and seven racers recorded speeds over 200 mph (321.87 kmh).<\/p>\n All eight contestants in FIM Europe Top Fuel Bike<\/strong> will take part in tomorrow\u2019s eliminations. Top qualifier from yesterday, Sweden\u2019s Rikard Gustafsson, improved to consolidate his lead with a 6.086\/364.71 from his nitro-burning bike whilst France\u2019s Eric Richard also improved to hold on to second place with 6.510\/349.85 and the UK\u2019s Mark Smith moved up to third at 6.746\/306.04 ahead of Finland\u2019s Kari Rautanen, The Netherlands\u2019 Mike Olie, Sweden\u2019s Thomas Pettersson, The Netherlands\u2019 Rene van den Berg and The UK\u2019s Stuart Crane.<\/p>\n Sweden\u2019s Per Bengtsson made his first pass of the weekend in FIM Europe Supertwin<\/strong> and went straight into second place at 6.701\/288.85 behind Marcus Christiansen\u2019s 6.418\/351.04 from yesterday which was still good for the lead. Belgium\u2019s Chris van Nimmen also went into the sixes with a 6.847\/318.23 ahead of Roman Sixta, local hero Christian J\u00e4ger, Anders H\u00f6rnstr\u00f6m and Marc van den Boer.<\/p>\n The UK\u2019s Jaxon King, Brad Morrison and Richard Willcox held on to first, second and third places in FIM Junior Drag Bike<\/strong> with yesterday\u2019s best runs whilst The Netherlands\u2019 Anouk Burgering improved to fourth +0.121 on dial-in ahead of the UK\u2019s Hollie King and Leah Morrison and The Netherlands\u2019\u00a0 Geeuwke Siersema.<\/p>\n With large fields of cars, Super Pro ET<\/strong> and Pro ET<\/strong> started their eliminations this afternoon although not before Switzerland\u2019s Christian Schneebli took top qualifying position in Super Pro ET with a perfect to the thousandth 7.350 on his 7.35 dial-in in this morning\u2019s session. In the same qualifying session Alex Halter took second place +0.003 on dial-in. Both Christian and Alex made it through this afternoon\u2019s first round of eliminations.<\/p>\n The 8.90-index Super Comp<\/strong> class remained headed by Switzerland\u2019s Alex Halti with yesterday\u2019s 8.912\/241.40; Germany\u2019s Gerd Habermann took over second spot from Oliver Haltberger at 8.950\/220.10.\u00a0 Philip Daudd took over the lead in the 9.90-index Super Gas<\/strong> at 9.906\/224.48 with Oscar Scapoccin\u2019s 9.935\/198.97 from yesterday good for second.<\/p>\n There were big improvements and a number of personal bests in Pro Comp Doorslammer<\/strong>. Marcus Welte ended the day in the lead at 7.389\/299.58 in his VW Golf 2; second, third and fourth paces are closely bunched between 7.583 and 7.591.<\/p>\n Lille Erichsen took over top spot in Junior Dragster<\/strong> with a reaction time of 0.003 in the first pair of today\u2019s first session. From not qualified in today\u2019s first of two sessions, Felix Schmid moved up to second with a reaction time of 0.014 ahead of Nieve Deevey\u2019s 0.016 from yesterday. The top ten of the sixteen Junior Dragster qualifiers ranged in reaction time from 0.003 to 0.070. Hugo Leistner took over the lead in DMV Junior Drag Bike<\/strong> +0.048 on dial-in whilst yesterday\u2019s +0.081 by Feline Gro\u00df was still good for second place ahead of Luis Schuh and Leif-Erik Braune.<\/p>\n The Netherlands\u2019 Maarten Zijlstra finished number one qualifier in the combined Funny Bike \/ Super Twin Top Gas<\/strong> class at 7.060\/300.00 with yesterday\u2019s leader Marcus Laur in second at an improved 7.092\/302.46 and Stefan Hagenstein third at 7.134\/291.86. A chasing pack including stalwart Funny Bike racer Thomas Joswig is bunched between 7.413 and 7.473.<\/p>\n Torben Frahm finished the day in top spot in the 8.50-index Super Comp Bike<\/strong>, his 8.552\/263.85 overhauling the UK\u2019s Carl Thomas whose 8.632\/265.34 was good for second spot ahead of Trevis Merite\u2019s 8.689\/253.60. Lutz Kreutzpeintner took over the lead in the dial-your-own ET Bike<\/strong> class +0.016 on dial-in with Marc Quattelbaum moving up to second at +0.109 and Hubert Franger in third place with yesterday\u2019s run +0.141 on dial-in.<\/p>\n With qualifying fields all set, eliminations will take place tomorrow (Sunday).<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The second and final day of qualifying for the 2024…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":9201,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-announcements"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nitrolympx.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nitrolympx.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nitrolympx.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nitrolympx.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nitrolympx.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9002"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nitrolympx.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9048,"href":"https:\/\/www.nitrolympx.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9002\/revisions\/9048"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nitrolympx.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nitrolympx.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nitrolympx.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nitrolympx.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}