Wednesday - June 14

Going to Tierp


Much to do at work forced me to bring my editing equipment with me
on the trip on the fairly-high-speed-train X2000. That was a better
deal than staying at home one more day to fix it. I could render the
film when arriving in Tierp and then send it to the client with
WeTransfer (which can send up to 2 gig!)
It's amazing what you can do today! Even though I'm a pro since
more than 25 years, I'm getting impressed every year! Every month!


You now you are at Tierp Arena when the manhole cover in cast iron
have the logo. The factory making them is located in Tierp
since long time ago.


Kenneth Feldthusen and Team Northrace took care of me this race
since I had no entry and was homeless. And it was interesting to
follow this top team in Competition Eliminator.


Well Dressed Man - Jan "Snowball" Palmqvist in Pro Stock #8.
Here he holds the latest CD from "Pistvakt" (Piste guard) - music
for snowballs. Qualfied 4th on 6.79 but lost 1st round on 7.15.


Our friends from London - Carla Pittau fixes the SuperStock-engine
in her husband Rick McCann's Camaro. Pushrods were loose and
got even more loose. They got local help to get to Persåkers
Speedshop to find new ones. Read the very fun story here!
Please note: You must scroll down to 27th June!
The headline is "The Race Trip - from Hell!"


Pro Stock #1 Jimmy Ålund with his brand new Camaro which will
match the Hemi of Thomas Lindström. Jimmy qualified 1st on 6.70
and Thomas 2nd on 6.72. The Final beween them was a drama:
Thomas won 6.704 with a better start over Jimmy's 6.701!
Trap speeds were identical: 334.4 kmh / 207.8 mph!


"Twins" Mikael Lindahl not only racing in the Pro Mod Camaro, also
in this Corvette with the twin turbo Hemi in Competition Eliminator!
Not bad for the first race, qualified 9th with 6.517 on a 7.16 index!
Inside the window directly! Speeds: 1/8: 278.93 kmh / 173.3 mph
and 1/8: 349.74 / 217.3.
Do you see smiling Göran Larsson in the back holding the spoiler,
he is the owner and one of the master brains behind the
Lindahl Twin's turbo campaign!


The twin turbo Brad Hemi delivers.


Tierp Arena - 2nd year. People are continuing making record times
and speeds, and it is still the greatest of views for the heart of a
Swedish dragracer!


It is always nice to chat with English gentlemen like Simon Groves
and Darryl Bradford. Both are very professional in their fields. Simon
is making the Pit notes from the races for Eurodragster.com and
Darryl is of course the male half of the presenting team in the
TV shows made from the FIA races.
I also met the Eurodragster.com Editor Tog but he was so quick so
I had no time to grab my camera or iPhone.



I guess I'm the only one at the wall also filming with an iPhone?
But it was good HD and I sent it up on Facebook directly where it
was appreciated instantly and widely shared. That can also be
wort something for the sport. See for yourself, click it!


Well that's the film but let's stop for a while and take a good look
on the quality of this still frame above, taken directly from the
iPhone HD film! Click it and inspect it.


Sweden met England in the European Football Championship and
Sweden had to win to advance. The beer-drinking-outlet "Golden
Barn" had big screens for dragracers who also are interested in
football (a small group of secret outsiders). A screen inside the barn
and also here in the extra tent annex.
Did we win? Yes, no, yes and finally no. We led over Engalnd and
lost it! (that small secret group became even smaller).
And a small plastic bottle of beer was still a mind boggling 50 SEK!
A steal! Unworthy!


Blues band Wolfman Jack, Umeå. Fun to meet! They will play here in
the "Golden Barn" during the Scandinavian Internationals in August!


Team Northrace in the Nilfisk ALTO colors is a fun and rocking
group of people. Whatever happens, there are always place
for jokes and laughter. Team Northrace site.


It's nice to see Patrick Wikström work his chutes, which means
that he must be at a drag race. Last few years he has just
concentrated in R&D of his Boss Blower concept which has been
eating time and money, and then resulted in fewer races.
Now he was here to get his work results printed on timeslips.


Tommy AGA was confident in "Team OFAB Motorsport" as always!
And this was his first time at Tierp Arena! He saw Patrick flew
away in the unmanageable "Thriller" Camaro!


Patrick and his son Simon were very happy of the data recorded
in the wild Camaro. -I have never before got so much PSI and power,
said a smiling Patrick. He had to take away more and more power
and then it was too rainy to qualify more so they stayed on the
outside.


One of the days Team Northrace's Marcus Runesson served potato
gratin. They don't fool around with the food in this team.


- Hi guys!
Karin Petersson found some sunshine between rounds, at least on
the Friday. In Team Northrace she do a bit of everything on the
racecar and also drives the bus with trailer since she has every star
in her driving licence.


Magnus and Mikael Lindahl took a look at my AFR heads and said
that it won't be any problem to fix my burnt hole and also do
an overhaul, seats and everything. Nice.


70's Funny Cars on display! In Jan Johansson's hands these are
renovated and refurbished into conditions like new! The Pisano &
Matsubara 1974 Monza was once bought by late Lee-Anders
Hasselström and repainted - and is now repainted to the
original again!!!
Underneath that 1975 Manta body is the "Jungle Jim" Lieberman's
car that Björn Andersson/Tage Hammerman bought and became
in 1976 the first Swedes into the 6's at 6.92 @ 335 kmh / 208.2
mph at Santa Pod Raceway in the UK.
I saw them close up in the 70's and it's just as amazing to have
a look at them now! Thanks Jan Johansson.


Leif Helander also raced funny cars back in the 70's, and he still
races today! He was on site with his SAAB Nitro Funny Car
but never got a chance to take it for a spin
because of the dreadful weather.


The race was called off because of the rain so we packed Kenneth's
Team Northrace bus and began to drive home via Stockholm. We
didn't get far to get sunshine! In the afternoon the racing commenced
again but only for the FIA and UEM classes, and they could finish it
during the evening.


On our way home I took the opportunity to edit together a short
documentary about this nice team - for the team.
It's showing the way they work a qualification run, including warm-up.


I filmed in full 1080 HD with my new pocket camera Canon Power
Shot S100 (scroll down to April 5 and read more about it) and I think
it turned out just terrific for a small camera like that! Check it out:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRnr4wNFssc