The Full set of pictures from the 2011 FIA European Finals at Santa Pod can be found here
The 2011 season on the whole both in europe and here in blighty has been dogged by less than idea weather. I got to the track pretty late on friday night and was greated with some pretty awesome sun set light , which I hoped was an omen for what the weekends weather was going to hold.
Unfortuntly by the time Saturday Morning Rolled round we was back to being in thick cloud cover. Cloud cover can cause some real headaches the cars just reflect the white clouds and it all looks very washed out and drab, not cool! However with some photography tricks you can soon use the cloud cover to your advantage and produce something cool. I love the reflections in the side of Roger Johansson’s pro mod
Thomas Lindstrom is a driver I haven’t seen before but his Mopar Pro Stocker was certainly hard to miss with that awesome paint job.
Its really great seeing some of the young blood come through into drag racing, you have the lindbergs in pro mod , Adam Gleadow and Joe Bond in NFAA and the finals saw 19 year old Kenni Neergaard jumping in a Top Fuel Dragster for his first competitive weekend. Bellow one of Kenni’s young team Torques a head down between rounds
I always love shooting the awesome Pro Mod of Mats Eriksson, with that wild green paint and awesome burn outs it always produces some great images.
Scandinavian Timo Lehtimaki has spent the last couple years just doing the odd events in and around scandinavia , some pretty knowledgable people we seen around his pits over the course of the weekend and I’m sure we’ll be seeing more of Timo in the coming years.
Staying with Top Fuel Anita Makela Warms up the Fuel Car in the pits prior to First round of Eliminations.
Multi Championship winning Andy Carter Has stuggled all year and his luck doesn’t improve as Sparks billow out of the clutch as his slows through the shut down area.
Gordon Smith gets a little warm as possibly the worlds smallest funny car fire erupts from the MPM oil funny car
The other MPM Oil Supported car of David Vegter burns out in front of the capacity crowd.
As the sun set on saturday I snapped this frame of Timo Harbermann sitting in his car, the 2011 season for the Harbermann Family certainly has been as dominating as previous years, and it has really lead to a close season with in the TMD ranks for both A Fuel and Top Methanol Dragsters
Now every one loves a good bit of night racing, who doesn’t but with Drag Racing not having any big money TV backing the lighting on track is some what lacking, AKA its a black hole which when the sun has set competly can make it a bit of a challenge.
Yep its pretty dam dark, must be a interesting feeling flying off into the murky abyss at 300+mph
Chris hartnell push started off down the track to signal the start of Sunday’s activities
Johan Lindberg waits to run 
Smoke Fills the cockpit of Thomas Lindstrom’s pro mod as he backs up from his burn out
The Crew Check under the body of the MPM Oil’s Funny car before its last run of the weekend. I put my camera on the ground and just vaguly pointed it in the right direction for this shot, don’t think it came out too bad at all.
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