Some Dragrace pics

[jannes_z-28]

I went to the major dragrace event here in Stockholm yesterday. Wanted to share some of my cool pics, totally it was 275 images but here are a few.

http://www.protouring.se/files/DSC_3330.jpg
Fastest Top Fueler 5.03 sec

http://www.protouring.se/files/DSC_3242.jpg
Pro Mod Winner, always a spectator-pleaser with halftrack burnouts. 6.41 sec

http://www.protouring.se/files/DSC_3261.jpg
Very good looking Pro Mod 4th gen Camaro

http://www.protouring.se/files/DSC_3368.jpg
Good looking and fast '69 Camaro Z/28, went to the finals in Street

http://www.protouring.se/files/DSC_3350.jpg
Winner in ProStreet. They have a 7.6 sec breakout. This guy nailed that pretty good with a best time during eliminations at 7.607! Never went slower than 7.68




Jan

[evilzee28]

Hi Jan, is the truck a repainted vesion of "Fast Freddies" or is it another one? Did you ever run at SAnta Pod over here with your drag cars? Good clear pics , cool:thumbsup:

[race-rodz]

i kinda dig the giant plexiglass bug catcher... kewl pics

[69rs]

Great pics! Very clear and close! :thumbsup:

[jannes_z-28]

Hi Jan, is the truck a repainted vesion of "Fast Freddies" or is it another one? Did you ever run at SAnta Pod over here with your drag cars? Good clear pics , cool:thumbsup:

That is Fast Freddie, he has a new paint this year.

No we never went to Santa Pod, we once were at Le Mans for a match race. At that time Swedish racers was always upclassed so that the English cars wouldn't be beaten.


I had a startline pass for this race :D

Jan

[evilzee28]

[QUOTE=jannes_z-28]That is Fast Freddie, he has a new paint this year.

No we never went to Santa Pod, we once were at Le Mans for a match race. At that time Swedish racers was always upclassed so that the English cars wouldn't be beaten.


I had a startline pass for this race :D

No, they didn't upclass them so that the English cars could win, they did it to save the Swedish the embaressment of losing !!!!!!!!! lol :yes: I used to go to the Pod & watch the Doorslammer Nationals when all of the Scandinavian cars would come over, absolutely AWESOME racing !! strange choice of cars by your lot though, always seemed to be the biggest "aircraft carrier" size ones you could get. Could never understand how you could afford such exotic equipment & you always turned up with beautiful babes. I remember one team, "Team Karl" always had loads of gear, we found out later they raised their racing funds by robbing banks !!
Freddie really is a showman huh?

What does Flygvapnet & Bifrost mean? It used to be on two of the funny cars in the early '80's?, just curious, always wondered :)

[XcYZ]

Awesome pics and I agree, the clear bug catcher on the Mustang is pretty cool. :yes:

[jannes_z-28]

What does Flygvapnet & Bifrost mean? It used to be on two of the funny cars in the early '80's?, just curious, always wondered :)

Flygvapnet is the Royal Swedish Airforce. Pretty awesome sponsorship deal he struck with them. Owner/driver was Anders Hasselström (http://race68.com/dyring.htm) Unfortunatelly he was killed in a terrible fire in his car in 1988.

Bifrost is from the Vikingmythology, see we bring them up again. :D
This is what I found at Wikipedia:
In Norse Mythology, Bifröst is the bridge leading from the realm of the mortals Midgard to the realm of the gods Asgard, which the gods travel daily to hold their councils under the shade of the tree Yggdrasil. The bridge itself is the rainbow and its guardian is the god Heimdall. The red color was the flaming fire, which served as a defense against the giants. The bridge is destroyed at the end of the world, Ragnarök. It was built by the Æsir.

If I remember correc the driver of that car got a jailsentence because he and his mother had a major highclass brotheloperation.

Jan

[69rs]

You never know what you're gonna learn on this site! :D

[CAMAROBOY69]

Your camera takes incredible pics!!! Thanks for sharing. :hail:

[evilzee28]

You never know what you're gonna learn on this site! :D
Yep, not only English translations but Swedish too!!!! lol :thumbsup:

Jan, you have mail :)

[69CamaroLS1]

Woow great pictures thanx man, i was there from 28th to 31st of July for the Veidec Festival (Mantorp Park), we signed a contract with Kieth for the European drag racing championship in my country (kingdom of Bahrain, located in the midle east) in November & March, Daym i loved Sweden (Lincopinng), loved the people there & loved the Cars. Check out my site or follow the link for the pix i took there.
http://www.bahrainracing.com/drag/31july2005/index.html

This is me on the starting light.

http://bdrc.bahrainracing.com/swedenjuly05/007.jpg
http://bdrc.bahrainracing.com/swedenjuly05/051.jpg

Sorry for interfeering, im really happy to find a pro touring guy like my self into drag racing.

[evilzee28]

Hi '69 Camaro, loved the pics on your site, who's was the black '57, looks awesome!! :yes:

[69CamaroLS1]

Hi '69 Camaro, loved the pics on your site, who's was the black '57, looks awesome!! :yes:

I relly cant remmember his name, but he was a really strong racer, his time was something around 6.5 to 6.6 :thumbsup: