-    I actually made a 400-run last autumn at the Night of Fire event here at Tierp, but that was not at an official FIA race, says Martin when we meet him in the pit after his last qualifying round, during which he hit the wall! It’s a bit hard at the start line with the turbo and gearbox as you can’t go too hard on it. You need to save the power so it runs all the way. Else you can burn the clutch before you reach the finish line. But it runs good at finish line.


How high can you jump when it come to a speed record? This high maybe?

The first official time over 400 km/h in Europe, unfortunately that wasn’t backed up, but 398 km /h was.

Obviously it does, and very well also. Saturday was a very exciting day for Martin and team as they did the fastest run off all in the class, but he also broke the rear axle hub and at the last qualifying round he got scary close to the wall, but straighten the car up so he could go over finish line with a car that was not too badly injured. 


And the door is fit for fight again. Even the sponsor Street&Strip got a tune up..

-    The door and exhaust pipe was just a bit damaged, but it was repairable, says Martin. We borrowed a rear axle hub from Freddy Fagerström one round then he needed it back so then we borrowed one from Jöran Persåker. The door and pipe was no problem, we even fixed the sponsor logo, Street & Strip, smiles Martin. Tomorrow we have four rounds to back up the speed record so it’s just to hit the track.

Martin did, as said, not back up the 403 speed but he made it to the finals and was supposed to go up against Micke Gullqvist when the rain stopped all racing, again. He took Marc Meihuizen in a very tight race in semis. Next race for Martin and team is in Malmö, Sweden and then the last race in Tierp in the end of the month. 398 km/h are now the official speed record in Pro Mod and 403 km/h is the fastest run in the class. That´s something to beat at the next race.