After a lot of discussion of allowing us attending the Nitro Thunder class at Hockenheim we were finally invited. I really like this track, the audience and the atmosphere! So it was very fun to be back for the third year in a row. The rain stopped our chanses for testing the track on friday. […]
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We arrived at the track on Thursday evening and unpacked the bike and all parts. Thanks to all helping hands! On Fridays qualifications we had some serious problem to find the right set up for the clutch. The condition was nearly what we had experienced in Finland. I only manage to run a slow 7.6 […]
UEM Event Mantorp park Veidec Dragrace Festival 2008
Published by July 26th, 2008 in Uncategorized. 0 CommentsWe went up to Mantorp on Wednesday to represent the Top Fuel class at the press day. We did a interview and one round on the track for the media. The track condition was really bad and our run was more like a very long burn out. I went back home to Falkenberg to work […]
After the rain out of the Main event we were peckish to continue the championship. We drove up to Stockholm where we meet up the crew of Team Fredlund. We took the ferry together to Åland to spend the night at Fredrik Fredlunds home. We are greatful for his and Tinas hospitality. Next day did […]
First we went down to south of Sweden to help Ulf Ögge transporting his new Buell Pro Stock Bike to the Pod. After the long journey to the ferry at Donkerque we discovered that there was a strike at Calais harbour and that all the trucks had to go by Donkerque. After 9h waiting we […]
The weather was really nice and the track was okey, first pass the engine dropt the power after 170m still runing 7,00s. When we got back to the pit we found out that there was lots of aluminium on the frame and on the intake. We had blown a big hole in the head. After […]
After a long winter it felt good to be on our way to the race track again.
During the winter we have rebuilt both engines and put lots of time studying all data that we got from last year. We are also grateful to have support from old and some new sponsors this year!
This year has been a very tough year and I know that many of my friends in the UEM cirkus also struggled to keep their bikes running. Still I’m happy for the third place in the championship, and that Ian King won, even if he’s only borrowing the #1 plate from me
Good that […]
Great article on fastbikes.se, Unfortunately in Swedish.
Europas snabbaste funnybike
2007-10-06
0-340 på 6,5 sekunder!
Visste ni att en svensk vann Top Fuel EM i fjol? Nej inte jag heller, men nu vet jag mer om Rikard Gustafsson och hans turbomatade Suzuki-dragbike som lämnar 650 hästar med ett laddtryck på 3,5 […]