After the rain plagued the first race in June, it was good to see almost perfect sunny weather conditions at the Quartermile Internationals, July 12 - 14. Under the bright sunshine the track was getting better and better during the weekend and on Sunday good numbers and personal bests showed up. At the first race in June only qualifying points could be counted, but this time all qualifying and eliminations could be finished and valuable points earned for the Dutch Open Championship and the EDRS European Drag Racing Series.


Super Pro ET final

International
Highlight was Super Pro ET, were also points were counted for the German Super Pro ET Challenge. Fifteen drivers from four different countries showed up and made it a good show with close racing and fabulous reaction times. German Bert Gorselitz took the number one qualifying position, but was eliminated in the quarter final by Stefan Eisenhauer. In the semi-final Eisenhauer had an almost perfect reaction time of 0,001 second to beat his countryman (and  Gorselitz’s teammate) Rene Kloss by 0,009 second only. In the final the German had to face Tom van der Wijden, who eliminated 17-year-old Shari Oomen in the semi-final. In the final it was Van der Wijden’s turn to pull an almost perfect light (0,002 second), but as Eisenhauer was closer to his index, the win went to the German with a margin of 0,062 second only!


Super Pro ET - Eisenhauer


Pro ET final

Super Comp final

More success
But still Van der Wijden, highlighted in Speedgroup newsletter number 7, was the most successful driver at the Quartermile Internationals, as he won Super Comp by defeating Shari Oomen again, but now in the final. Harry Kempenaar was the winner in Pro ET, as his 13-year-old daughter Janita was runner-up in Junior Dragster, after losing in the final against Ivana van den Berg, yes indeed daughter of Top Fuel Bike-racer Rene van den Berg. All other car classes were action packed too and had great winners in Cas van de Mosselaar (Super Gas), Chrit Heynen (Super Street Car) and Misha Willer (Sportsman ET).


Super Street Bike final

Bikes
In Super Twin Top Gas a very consistent Herman Jolink was the winner again, while in Super Street Bike Jeroen van den Belt saved the best for the final by defeating number one qualifier Rudolfo Maduro. Other winners were Jaco van Mensch (Ultimate Street Bike), André van Workum (Street Bike), Hannes Burgering (Street Bike ET) and Luke Harteveld (Junior Drag Bike).


Super Twin Bike - Daniel Kerkhofs

Great demonstration runs were made by Mike Olie (Funny Bike), Daniël Kerkhofs (Super Twin) and Rene van den Berg (Top Fuel Bike).

Junior Final - Ivana van den Berg (near) and Janita Kempenaar

The event at Drachten that was scheduled for August 16-18th  have unfortunately been cancelled due to feww entered participants when the entry deadline was passed. 

contact organizer: info@quartermile.nl
website: www.quartermile.nl