Hi Andy and guests !
I´m no racer, just the announcer who also reads the daily eurodragster,exvitermini and other sites.
And sometimes a Santa Pod lensman and reporter.
YESS, I surely admire your car, your effort and the fast results.
BUT, like so many german streetcar fans and racers,
I know that these times can only be raced with a british "street" car.
Or a scandinavian, or dutch, or french,
or wherever in Europe the laws and restrictions are not so strict like in our oh so great Deutschland!!!
In GB you can even build your own bike/car from the frame up, blower/nitrous and all,
and then put NO lights whatsoever on it, as long as you only drive in the daytime!
(I also read Streetfighters, BSH and AWOL, CCSE is not available at the newsstand.)
Oh yeah, with all that "European Unification" we surely hope that the rules here will be a little less restrictive in the future,
but it can also be that the fukin TÜV rulez are applied all over Europe (Deutschland über alles, you know...;-))).
Keep fingers crossed and your lobby working.
This TÜV thing makes building fast quartermilers very hard,
and the few guys who made it into the 9s here with a license plate are specialists in both tools AND paperwork,
reading and building "between the lines" of the TÜVbook is an art in itself.
And by now the fastest allowed time in Public Race is 10.00 sec.
The class is called "Modified Street" in the german championship in 2004 and also includes the former Super Street cars.
German Public Racers can also race without being registered on the street,
then they have to have a "car passport" issued by the sports authority.
But then they are not allowed on the road no more.
So comparing your times and "our" times is not realistic,
because you can almost run a "Junior Pro Mod" even if it has a full interior and is british streetable.
It is sad to read that you only race where they drive on the wrong side of the street :-)),
have you heard of the www.recaro-tuning-days.de at Hock in June or the "King of Europe" race project in 2005? See you there?
Benni
I wish you better weather than last weekend,
and watch out, Mario will be moving over from down under with his GTR, 8,44 and surely not on the limit.