photo album 2005
European Finals Santa Pod Raceway 8-11 september 2005
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| Ulf ready to make a burnout. |
A smokey burnout from Martin. |
Ulf getting into stage. | Ulf being towed from the pit area. |
Martin being towed from the pit area.
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| Ulf packing the chutes. |
Martin getting into stage.
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The crew working on Martin's car. | Some maintenance were needed on Ulf's engine after the first qualifying run. | Ulf being interviewed by people from television after his win in the first round. | ||||
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| The two trailers with awnings standing next to each other in the pit area. |
Ulf and Jörgen discussing with a crew member from Bahrain Dragracing Club.
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Shaun Murphy, IronCAD's Vice President of Sales and Marketing took the chance to sit in Martin's car during a warmup. | Shaun with a smile on his face. | |||||
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| Jörgen talking to UK IronCAD reseller John Wright |
A real downpour fell over the race track at saturday afternoon and flooded the pit area.
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| They have a lot of equipment for cleaning and drying the track. | They even have two jet-powered track dryers! | Stuntman Sune Andersson is covering some spectators in tire smoke. | Some remnants from Sune's tire could be found on a car!! | Webmaster Urban Olars is smiling because he just received a header from Nitro Funny Car racer John Spuffard. |
Sundsvall 2005
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Bilsport Drag Nat's Tullinge 13-14 August 2005
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| A long burnout. |
Ready to GO! |
Jörgen Leanders and webmaster Urban Olars were temporary stand-in mechanics for Top Fuel racer Jöran Persåker this weekend! |
Drag Challenge Gardermoen Raceway 5-7 August 2005
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| Ulf doing a burnout. |
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Martin broke the blower belt during the burnout in the second qualifying run. | Green light for Ulf. |
Ulf being towed back to the pits. His daughter Erika is passenger!
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| Robin kadi getting into stage. |
Nelly Nygaard getting into stage.
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The race track is located just beside the airport of Oslo so air planes is landing and taking off several times a day. | This was the case on saturday and sunday: a race track full of water. | We had some problems with water in the pit area! | ||||
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| The water problems were solved by digging a ditch. |
Strange things can happen to dragracing tires. This is a set of Top Fuel tires from Tommy Möller's car.
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This would have been a more suitable vehicle for getting down the wet track!! | Boss Hoss. A motor cycle with v8 engine. | Our crew members Nicklas Wikström and Peter Ström competed by running the length of the track. | ||||
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| Peter Ström didn't make it all the way. Rumors said he had broken a blower belt :-) |
Feeding the crew.
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Veidec Nitro Festival 28-31 July 2005
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| Martin and Ulf discussing. |
Ulf getting help to dress. |
Martin getting help to dress. | Ulf making a smokey burnout. |
Martin in the beginning of a burnout.
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| Martin being pushed back after a "lost fire". | Ulf's engine disassembled in parts. | |||||||
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| Swedish TV4 filming the VP group pit area. |
Getting help to placing IronCAD decals on the trailer.
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The Mantorp crew working hard after the massive raining. | The camshaft were damaged in Ulf's engine in the first round of eliminations. | A damaged roller lifter. | ||||
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| A damaged Top Fuel tire |
Some guests from the drag racing club of Bahrain were visiting Mantorp Park.
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Kamasa TOOLS Mechanic Challenge 2005
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| Removing the blower. |
Head gasket off. |
Martin's crew working hard. | Martin's crew receiving the 4th price. |
Ulf's crew receiving the 3rd price.
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| A crazy guy jumping with his motocross. |
The same crazy guy again.
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The coolest snowmobile in the world! | Loading the car back into the trailer again . | A happy team preparing to load the car back into the trailer . |
Nitro Nationals Alastaro Circuit 1-3 July 2005
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| Alastaro race track. |
Maintenance of Martin's car in the pits. |
Jörgen and Jonny discussing some "secret" settings of the clutch. | Warmup of Martin's car in the pits. |
The pit area is jammed with crowds as usual .
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| Both cars lined up and ready for qualifying . |
Martin gets OK to run from crew chief Niklas .
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Lars spraying deicing liquid on the injector . | Ulf gets OK to run from crew chief Jörgen. | Robin's junior dragster has a paint job similar to Ulf's car | ||||
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| Anna/Nelly's junior dragster has a paint job similar to Martin's car |
Martin is strapped in the car and ready to go.
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Ulf running against Urs Erbacher in the second round of eliminations. | The old Ford Mustang body is now used as a spare body just in case... | Anything can happen in these engines. One of our competitors were striked with this bad luck during the weekend. | ||||
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| Wood year tires!! |
Main event Santa Pod raceway. 27-30 may 2005
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