Eurodrag, september 2010

We attended the newly organised event in Belgium last weekend.
Impressed by the potential of the location, an airstrip with lots of potential for a great racing-event, great paddock area and best of all;a return road wich, during a event could result in many runs for all competitors.

spacious paddock-area

We pulled off three runs on saturday (no pics, sorry, our photographer was busy shooting pretty girls), on sunday the rain kept us from even starting the car,too bad, but hey, even we cannot fight the weather-gods.


On sunday we witnessed a jetcar, doing a demo run with a passenger, impressive stuff!

Rain or shine, competing or watching, it's always good fun at the roeler's-team

New banner from our latest sponsor

and a new logo on the racecar


Organisation of eurodrag did their best, prepping the track, laying down rubber and spraying gallons of track-bite to get the desired grip on this new track wich could become a real good one over time.
We where proud to be there !

Small teaser by Belgian's KetNet

Eurodrag, upcoming event

www.eurodrag.com

condoleances

Tragic news was brought on sunday, Top Fuel rider John van Geytenbeek crashed.
Our thoughts are with his family, friends and The Explosion organisation.

Official announcement and condoleances

Drachten Finals 2010

The Drachten Finals 2010
We had a blast !
The weathergods where mild during the finals, some sun, almost no rain wich resulted in a lot of qualifying runs.
Come rain or shine, the car is always clean, Vic from Car-cleaning Culemborg is making sure the racecar is detailed to the max as a part of the prepping routine.

Heating them tires.

Team tactics.

Crewchief Ernie Steel giving directions, the main man !

My burn-outs where improving, just like the reaction times, too bad that we missed the chance of winning the eliminations by 4 thousands of seconds on our second run on sunday against Alex Schmidli.
First run on sunday was a bye run due to gearbox troubles on the other contestant.

Gratuliere !

Redlighted.

Saturdaynight at the Roelers, scenic shot.

Last preparations and adjustments on saturdaynight

New race-car decals, our new proud sponsor; Pure Fitness Breda

PURE is the cure......

Mike H, as always making sure the race-car is delivered at the track from its home and vice-versa.
thanks Mike !



Mark H's promo-girls had a great time posing in our paddockstand.
Thanks girls !
Our team-photographer Limpix found great inspiration in your short but pleasant visit and just neede to make a teamshot with you girls.
Wich resulted in the shot below:

So, if you need shots like these, contact this guy , amazing what he can do with a camera.

Seasons ending by now, we might do some promo's and demo's troughout the country, keep following for updates.

Run compilation

Some onboard footage, Drachten Internationals July 2010

Drachten Internationals 2010

Heat dominated the Drachten Internationals this year.
Heat; good for grip, bad for your concentration when waiting in the line-up.
Teammember Vic is doing the airconditioning move here...

Last race was cold, lack of grip due to the cold and unpredictable track.
Not this race, grip was good wich builds confidence
Teammember Arnie directs me to the best place to get things rolling..

Distractive, waiting on the strip, in burning heat.

On Sunday, the eliminations we won the race but where kicked out of competition due to a low reaction time, will be working on that.
The car and team performed predictable, contstantly, so there's something to be found in the reaction times.
Read a full report on Autosport.NL,by Remco Scheelings;
http://www.autosport.nl/dragracing/news/20881/verhitte_drachten_internationals.html

The Engelage E-85 engine performed flawlessly, almost no adjustments where made, where some riders suffered from the lack of oxygen in the hot air, ours just did it's job.
Thomas Engelage checked from time to time, just to make sure that everything was adjusted perfect.
Having this engine build by Engelage was the best choice we made, almost no re-jetting was neccesary, where the gasoline burning engines suffered a lot from the lack of oxygen in the hot air the E-85 engine needed some minor adjustment, just minor.
Check;
http://www.engelagebros.de/

Checking valve clearance after runs.
Notice the Kendall lubricant, keeps things rolling smooth inside.
http://www.kendall.nl/

Vic, checking tire temp and sometimes the track wich showed temperatures of above 60 celcius during the day.
Phew, hot...

Black race-suit, black helmet is not what you choose on a day like this, normally.

Water, keeping things cool, just like the attitude.

See ya'll on Drachten 3, The Dutch Finals in August
http://www.explosiondragracing.com/

Drachten 1 2010

So, a new season has started for us and the other competitors in the Dutch Dragracing Championships.
Drachten 1 was dominated by the forces of nature, rain
The organisation was busy cleaning and drying the track most of the days, except sunday, wich was, seen overall, one of the best days regarding the weather.

So, on arrival the engine was fired up after its winter-beauty-sleep, checked and double checked.

And heating it up, checking once more.

Despite checks and fitting a new pressure gauge it did go berzerk after some qualifying runs.
The Bellio team gave us a spare, worked fine for the weekend, thanks guys !

Rain and dragracing don't mix'n match, here SSC16, Olav Swiderek almost lost control.
He was able to save his car and got away with it.
Just a few drops of rain made him lose traction and control.
Phew !

But the weekend was not overruled by bad luck, our team worked like a clock, fixing small issues and we pushed it some more to end up with a personal best of 8.331 on friday.

Shot from the rear, sunday, last run.


Food and drinks !
We probably have the coolest fridge !
Don't leave home without it.
Ever.

Running hard.

heating them tires.

See ya'll on Drachten 2
9-10-11 July 2010 Drachten
More info on;
http://www.explosiondragracing.com/

Season's start

First of all;
A big huge thanks to all the guys that make it happen
Above you find Vic, polishing the Bel-Air, making sure it's spotless
If you don't know Vic, check out his business, polishing and detaling cars;
http://www.carcleaningculemborg.nl/

Mike-H's carhauler, who takes care of the transport of the Bel-Air
http://www.mikehautotransport.nl/

Michael;
Came over from Germany, one super-relaxed guy with a lot of knowledge and expierence when it comes to dragracing, almost a walking library

Arnie, my eyes around the track

Limpix, capturing the action around the Roeler's team and helping whenever he's around the paddock.
www.limpeiven.com
Contact this guy for killer shots, chances are he's shot you in action on the dragstrip.

Thanks guys !
And my girl for taking care of the team as a whole !