BRITISH DRAG RACING CHAMPIONSHIP ROBINSON PUSHES DESPITE TITLE WIN British Drag Racing Championship:

Organiser: Santa Pod Racers Club When: September 23/24 Where: Santa Pod Raceway, Northamptonshire Starters: 289.

Conducted under warm and sunny skies (a stark contrast to the Euro Finals at the same venue a couple of weeks ago), the battle for domestic honours came to its conclusion over the course of the National Finals at Santa Pod.

The destiny of the MSA Pro Modified championship was settled at the start of the meeting with Andy Robinson securing his sixth title by passing scrutineering before on-track action commenced. Robinson demonstrated that he wasn’t taking things easy by belting out a trio of five second passes from his supercharged ‘Anger Management’ 1969 Camaro during qualifying and lowering his personal best with a 5.9467s/236.53mph to head the eight-car eliminations field.

Unfortunately, there were a couple of withdrawals which left a pair of competition solos in the opening round of eliminations, with Robinson (6.047s/237.44mph) and Marco Maurischat (6.149s/232.54mph) being the quickest of the quartet to advance to the semi finals. Bobby Wallace’s nitrous injected Willys Coupe and Wayne Nicholson’s Corvette also compromised rivals.

Robinson overcame Wallace with a consistent 6.007s/237.41mph to a 6.268s/221.35mph while Maurischat’s 6.277s/232.43mph to set up the Anglo-german final.

Maurischat gained a head start off the line with a perfect reaction time but Robinson managed to find a little extra to charge past Maurischat’s 6.2957s/232.84mph with a further personal best elapsed time and terminal speed with a 5.9183s/242.43mph to reset the MSA record, win the meeting and underline a very good weekend.

“We’re really happy, we’ve found a few things in the set-up and are clearly making a lot of horsepower now. Here’s hoping we don’t get lost with the tune-up over the winter,” beamed the Ngk-backed Robinson after the final. Robinson took the championship