- After the rule change in Top Fuel Bike for this season letting non nitro bikes running faster than 7 second take part in the class made us do some radical changes on the bike this winter to improve our performance.

Our biggest change is our new MTC clutch. New turbo and some electronic to retard the ignition is also added to the bike.
 
We have been chasing Gary Clarks Funnybike world record since 2008 of 6,45, this record was broke by Keith Lynn in 2009 running 6,436 at Indy, Gary Clarks record was standing for nearly 10 years.

We started this season with some testing with the clutch at the track in Malmö and ran 4,17 our first run on this 1/8 mile track
and with a 60’ of 1,05.

Two weeks later it was time to test at a full length track and get a base line for fuel and clutch set-up and Tierp was the perfect choice.

The weather conditions were not perfect, strong head wind and cold track. First run out on Saturday the bike left okey and we went 6,433s@207mph. Everything looking  good on the bike and we decided to make our second test run on Sunday. We did not change much on our set-up just changing the boost from soft to normal and the bike went 6,425s@213mph.

Gustafsson also commented he look forward running in UEM Top Fuel Bike class this season and to get the chance to compete with Ian King and the others  he will take on as a challenge. Rikard will also be seen at some events in Funny Bike which is included as a class in the EDRS European Drag Racing Series (after UEM dropped the class and Speedgroup agreed to take it on). Gustafsson is on the entry list for Main Event, so readers will be able to follow his performance via Eurodragster.com during the event and in the next Speedgroup newsletter..