Speedgroup Club Europe

Pro Modified:
Division Central is the only division that will race the Pro Mod class in 2012, and all four races are run at Tierp Arena. “Home track” –driver Johan Lindberg became No 1 qualifier with a 6.01 s. run in front of Martin Lundqvist and Mikael Lindahl in the 14 car field. Reigning champion Micke Gullqvist struggled with a fuel leak and after that setup problems and did not manage to calm down the car enough to get the traction working. He lost the first round to Mattias Wulcan who has a new car for this season and later during test & tune managed to join the 5-sec club. Well done Mattias! On his way to the final Johan Lindberg first beat Johan “Lillis” Samuelsson and then had a bye-run. In the semi-final he was up against former Pro Stock Champion Niclas Andersson, which barely kept all four wheels on the ground after a furious slide-around. Both driver and car was OK after that scary ride. On the other side of the ladder Mats Eriksson defeated Bertan Olofsson, Micke Lindahl and Fast Fred Fagerström until the final against Johan , where he was too fast and lit the red light on the tree and with that was out of competition. Lindberg Bros well deserved winners of the EDRS Nationals. Crew Chief Jonnie Lindberg said after the win that there had been no problems during the weekend but that they were testing a lot of new parts, which meant it was not obvious they could go on old setups and data, they struggled a bit to adjust to the track Johan as a confident driver did his job great and Jonnie and crew supplied a car fast enough to battle for the event win. Lindberg leads the Swedish Championship and EDRS Division Central after this round.

Competition Eliminator:
Not unusual, you can never tell what´s going to happen or not in the Comp. class. Seventeen cars this time , into the 32 all-in ladder. Per Erik “Perka” Lindgren is doubling this year, also competeting in the Stock/Super Stock class. Not in time for the first round, shut off on the second, Perka took the last chance to qualify. And he did it well. First spot, before Kenneth Feldthusen and Stig Olsson. Perkas doubling made it tough, since the organizer placed these two Swedish Championshipclasses after each other. No problem in the first round, when Perka took the advantage as No 1 qualifier and started last. But in the second round , only 9 pairs of cars was between his race cars. When his competitor, Jan Ericsson made his burnout, Perka was not even in the altered yet. But he jumped in , was strapped , started up, made a short burnout, staged and won… Next round was lost to Krister Adeen who didn’t show up in the bye run semifinal, makin the other sides semifinal the final instead. Stig Olsson defeated Magnus Petersson there and Stig could wave to the audience all the way in his bye-run final. Veteran Olsson of course was content over the win and told he is planning to not travel a lot this season, mainly stay in Sweden and mostly run at Tierp. Well, what better start than leading the EDRS Division Central and the Swedish Championship in Comp Eliminator? Well done Stig!