The Dynamic World of Drag Racing This year our order book is already looking good, a new Top Fuel Dragster will be available for a driver to complement our team, and orders for chassis’s are pending, in all, a good year ahead! The season never stops! What is meant the work never stops; Development work is always in hand and major new projects are already underway. We are looking to recruit 2 New Drivers into the team this season, and we will also be handling the ‘Chaos’ nostalgia Fuel Altered race car (details of these can be found in latter pages) What a successful year 2010 has been in the world of Drag Racing and FGR Motorsport. Last year saw the full time return to Funny Car Racing for the team at FGR, supporting ‘Shockwave' Drag Race team Historically FGR was always in the
forefront of building and racing Nitro Burning Funny Cars, and this year we will
We do bikes as well We are importing race car parts as well As 2011 progresses February This year is no different January Looking back on the past year 2010 New sponsors - New cars December The Fireworks Event a night to remember - one of the rare opportunities to see the Funny Cars at their most fearsome, Flames and Thunder is a true description of these fire breathing monsters. To all of our fans that made it along we hope they were not disappointed, Shockwave won the event in style! As this event traditionally marks the closing down of our racing season we did intend to go down to New Zealand & Australia but with a full order book maybe that will have to wait till the end of next year !! October Following the previous hectic 3 months services & repairs, preparation was in hand for the last event of the European Drag Racing calender, the Flame & Thunder event at Santa Pod , England, although this is traditionally a Novemeber 5th event this year it took place on the last week in October. September Drag Racing is all about consistent performance - Wining the Funny Car competition at Drag Race Finals with a string of excellent passes culminating in personal best for the driver ‘Flash’ Gordon Smith. A brilliant performance by the whole team with a special note to the team leader, changing engines is the norm but at this event reliability is paramount. August Then on to Hockenheim where we opened the night show, bringing the huge crowds to their feet with a blistering first round performance. This year was the first time the FGR team had been back to Hockenheim since the early days, when the likes of Alan herridge, legendary driver of the FGR funny car 'Gladiator' first took to the German strip. July Started with an event in Alastaro - Finland, and our team members were in Mantorp Park - Sweden for the Drag Festival Work is well under way on the re-furbishment of 'Vampire' the turbo jet dragster, in preparation for the 2011 season od shows and personel appearances. June Saw the return tocar building for the team and tubes were laid down on the jig for the new Fuel Altered chassis to be built to the new 10.1E S.F.I specifications, and one of our guys took to the road to work with the Rune Feld team. May In preparation for our all new 2011 funny car chassis, further updates were incorporated and tested prior to the Main Event meeting at Santa Pod. Competition was fierce but with the updates to the chassis the car produced a converted win at the event. April The Easter 'Thunderball Event' the first major event of the year with the Funny car. With many new developments incorporated into the chassis, some to infinite to be seen and others quite major the first full pass is always a high adrenalin occasion and the 'Shockwave' Funny car performed excellently. Later in the event we found ourselves paired with a Top Fuel dragster. In the winter time and spring of 2010 Due to a strong demand the development of a 'mini' funny car body was undertaken. Also repair work was done on Tony Betts 'Venom' fuel altered, including supplying him with the most upto date 10.5 spec chassis. We also completed the updates on the newly imported 7,000hp Fuel funny car for the 'Mongoose' team
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