I can see from the photos of the track, that though one of Europe's premier drag tracks wasn't at its' best over the past weekend, it's still far better than anything we have over in this half of Europe. Watching the live link over the weekend, though I enjoyed the variety of cars and the times posted, what I appreciated most was the level of care that the crew at Santa Pod put into the track and the generally high level of everything from comentators to safety standards. I raced at Santa Pod for nearly ten years before moving over here to Poland and never realised just how good I had it.
Chris
the track guys worked there asses of, and it must have been miserable for them in that heat, they did an excellent job to keep it as good as possible all weekend its just one of those events that is always going to be a problem due to the wide variety of vehicles going down it, the cars with treaded tyres had so much dust etc in the treads and didn't have enough traction to not spin them and thus lift the fresh rubber layer up!!!!
Then the bike crash did a lot of damage to the left lane up around the 1/8 mile mark and they worked late into the night to try make it good for sunday
It was difficult for me as the startline traction was pretty good but that patch about 20ft out upset the car every pass and it just turned left or right at will, I don't see it being any better next weekend, in fact with Friday and Saturdays rwyb it will most likely get worse, I would not want to be a big HP car at that event
Still was a very enjoyable weekend and as you mention the variety of cars, some that we would never see if there weren't these style events were excellent to see again
cheers Richie
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