FIA European Drag Championship - Santa Pod, May 29, 2016

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Got back in touch recently with a guy I worked with several years ago. Back then he suggested I join him on his annual trip to Santa Pod, the home of British drag racing, but we never got around to organising anything.

Last weekend however things got sorted so I took him and Junior Menace up there for my first ever experience of proper drag racing. I realise it's probably a bit tame compared to what our US members may have experienced but we had a good time.

Oh, and Matt2000 came too.

Here is Fifth Gear's Johnny Smith in his souped up Enfield electric car, the Flux Capacitor....

Flux Capacitor I by Mineworksfine, on Flickr

Rest of the album here - not my best shots but dragsters are fucking tricky things to shoot!
 
That Bentley seems so out of place.
 
It looks to be a funny car. I don't think it's really a Bentley at all.

Actually, it's regular car with chassis work. I'm guessing a "back-half" car. I.E. the rear floor and trunk floor is cut away, then a drag racing suspension (most likely a 4-link) installed.

On this site if you put the registration number in, it shows a 2004 Bentley.
 
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