Pro Stock Bike Review 
NitrOlympx
In Pro Stock Bike the championship excitment  intensified during the NitrOlympx. Although Jesper Thiel claimed the European Champion title, the battle for 2-3 place ist still very much alive. 

Kalle Lyrén who was a rookie in 2010 has established himself in the class and although not running as quick as Fredlund, Olesen and Thiel, he is very consistent as a rider and the VEIDEC team make sure he has a bike that go down the track run after run and incidents of technical nature seems rare.

In Hockenheim Lyrén qualified 4th, took out Martin Newbury in round one, continued with Gert-Jan Laseur in the quarter finals but met his overman in Rasmus Olesen in the semi final and lost.  Olesen was the not so unexpected low qualifier of the meet with 7.10 sec, he has shown great potential and the new bike is good enough to run as quick as his team mate Jesper Thiel´s. So this time Thiel did not collect a full jackpot to start with. His 7.17 sec. was good for the 3rd position, which meant he got to meet lady rider Elvira Karlsson in the first round and Martin Bishop in the next. Both runs resulted in wins and in the semi finals it was time to face Fredrik Fredlund, who has been the strongest opponent to Thiel up to this point.

Fredlund lost after a startline timing incident (which we will leave without further speculations). It was Olesen and Thiel who took the positions in the final, but it was not to be as the race was called off sunday evening slightly before it. 

Check the full points table under a separate headline in this edition.

Round #7 of the UEM Drag Bike Championship  - the European Finals are held at Santa Pod Raceway on september 9-11th

Kalle Lyrén is 2nd in the championship after Hockenheim, 4 points ahead of Fredlund


Elvira Karlsson focused and ready to go


Charalambos Bousinis - one of the two greek riders on site at Hockenheim..


.. the other being Stavros Svrachnos

  


PRO STOCK BIKE RESULTS NITROLYMPX 

ELIMINATIONS

QUALIFICATIONS:

 #

 Rider

 Home Base

 ET Sec

 Speed km/h

1

Rasmus
Olesen

Denmark

7.108

306.08

2

Fredrik Fredlund

Åland
Finland

7.131

300.33

3

Jesper Thiel

Denmark

7.170

298.31

4

Kalle Lyrén

Sweden

7.213

297.61

5

Gert-Jan Laseur

the Netherlands

7.433

279.04

6

Martin Bishop

UK

7.464

289.02

7

Stavros Svrachnos

Greece

7.469

277.72

8

Karl-Heinz
Weikum

Germany

7.516

285.45

9

Charalambos
Bousinis

Greece

7.565

281.20

10

Anders Abrahamson

Sweden

7.635

284.74

11

Martin Newbury

UK

7.638

276.94

12 Elvira Karlsson Sweden 7.768

258.45

13

Len Paget

UK

7.954

258.42




Rasmus Olesen, Kalle Lyrén and Jespet Thiel was awarded at the NitrOlympx. With one event remaining Thiel is the European Pro Stock Bike champion - well done Jesper and team Sovereign!


Olesen vs Fredlund during qualifications - both are candidates for the 2nd and 3rd position in the championship. Olesen currently 4th at 285 points while Fredlund is 3rd at 300 points.


The view of the Rico Anthes quarter mile seen from Elvira Karlsson´s perspective at the startline. Impressing venue!



  Text: Åsa Kinnemar
Photos: Lena Perés, Remco Scheelings, Patrik Jacobsson for Speedgroup 

This article is part of the Speedgroup Club Europe Newsletter #13/2011

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