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Susanne and the rest of
Callin Racing are going to
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European
Finals snippets.
31st
August: Swedish Top Fuel Dragster racer Susanne Callin
appeared on Swedish TV last night, says
Christer
Abrahamson of Svensk Dragracing.
"Susanne was interviewed on the very popular Friday night show
I afton Lantz (no,
not Peter Lantz, but Annika Lantz, well known TV
personality)", says Christer. "As usual
Susanne made a good impression both for herself and for the sport, including
some promotion for the European Finals."
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Carter and
Callin Spearhead Nitro Show
Nitro fans all over the country can
breath a huge sigh of relief now that the words out
about who will be headlining the Super Series Fallnationals
nitro show at Shakespeare County Raceway, Stratford-Upon-Avon in eight weeks
time. Already tipped to become the 'biggest nitro bash' ever staged at the Warwickshire
venue Obsession Motorsports, organisers
of the highly successful Sportsman drag racing series in the UK, are pleased to
announce the return to the raceway of 2001 FIA
European Top Fuel Dragster Champion Andy 'Bad Boy' Carter to spearhead the August
Bank Holiday Speed Fest; a three day ground-shakin'
drag racing series final that will have the famous bard spinning in his grave!
Bad Boy Carter, whose name has been made famous for his giant killing acts and
precision straight runs aided by Crew Chief Eddie Corr,
has already targeted the raceway's overall 281 miles per hour track record set
last year by European and British Funny Car legend John Spuffard,
as an easy target to beat. Last month at Santa Pod's European Championships in
a qualifying run against Britain's Barry Sheavills,
Carter's 6000 bhp dragster covered the quarter mile
distance in 4.89 seconds at 303 miles per hour to cover Sheavills'
304 miles per hour in 4.97 seconds.
What next for Shakespeare County
Raceway in August? On his last visit to the raceway two years ago, Carter drove
the Rune Fjeld owned dragster to a new strip record
for Top Fuel at 5.22 seconds. But is one 6000 bhp
dragster enough for the thousands of fans expected to flock to the raceway in
August, or will double the horse power set the nerve ends jangling with
anticipation! Well Obsession Motorsports certainly
think so with the announcement that Sweden's 'teenage wonder babe' Susanne
Callin will be racing against the 'Bad Boy'. At 18 years of age and a recent
graduate from a straightline career in Junior and
Sportsman drag racing, Susanne managed to gain her Top Fuel licence
at the opening round of the FIA European
Championships with a learning (!) run of 5.55 seconds over the quarter mile. A
popular figure in her homeland of Sodertalje, Sweden,
and now here in the UK, Susanne is expected to drive the Nitrofish
dragster, owned by veteran team owner Knut Soderquist, in August despite having
to cut short her European race programme due, in
part, to sponsorship funding. Callin, who started drag racing in the Junior classes in 1994 at the age of ten, won 12 Junior
events and set several national top speed and low ET records before stepping up
a gear to race in the Super Comp class in her father Gordon's Super Comp
dragster. In 1999, Susanne made it all the way to the semi finals at Europe's
largest drag race at Mantorp Park, the Sko-Uno
Festival in Sweden. Several years later Susanne was given the privilege by
owner Johan Hessler of driving Europe's first and
only two-seater dragster to chauffeur sponsors and media for eight second ride alongs.
Although further names are expected
to join the entry list in the coming weeks, Denmark's
With the Top Fuel Dragsters
headlining the Fallnationals, preparations are
proceeding to bring a team of nitro burning Fuel Altereds
to Shakespeare County Raceway to run along side the third and penultimate round
of the British Fuel Funny Car Championship and the final instalment
of the MSA British Drag Racing Championship for 230
mile per hour plus methanol burning Dragsters and Funny Cars.So
sit down, tune in and be prepared to be entertained at Shakespeare County
Raceway on August 24th/26th.
Issued by Jeremy Cookson
Super Series & Shakespeare County Raceway Press Officer
05/07/2002
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September 16 / 2001
Susanne won Super pro ET at Santa Pod. Susanne competed with the
two-seat dragster, due to her crash at RWYB with her
Super Comp Dragster. I like to thank all the people that made contributions
helping us/her to get a new car or ride for next year. THANK YOU
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September 12 /
2001
I like to take the opportunity to thank all safety crew, the
paramedics and doctor and to the marshals at Santa Pod for their fast and excellent effort to help me after the
crash and putting out the fire. You
really make me feel safe at the track; it really helped me to get back in to
the car and race two days later.
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September 9 /
2001
10th September: Swedish Super Comp racer Susanne Callin
is fine after a horrifying top end crash at yesterday's Run What You Brung at Santa Pod Raceway. The popular young racer who had
spent most of the day giving passenger rides in her other ride, the two-seater
dragster, appeared to have a slight twitch at the top end covered before her
Super Comp rail suddenly turned hard left after an 8.92/163 mph pass. The
dragster then flipped over, went vertical and hit the guardrail before catching
fire. Susanne released herself from the car as soon as it came to rest and ran
into the arms of the safety crew. She was completely uninjured and after being
checked over by the paramedics was straight on her mobile phone to call home to
reassure the rest of her family.
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Susanne's
passenger rides in the two-seater dragster were one of the highlights of a busy
day at Santa Pod. The final passenger ride of the day was for none other than
Eurodragster staffer Tog whom Susanne piloted to an 8.129/165.31, her fastest
run of the day. We think that, thanks to Susanne, Tog is now the quickest and
fastest drag racing web journalist in Europe, unless any of our readers know
different! Many thanks to Susanne, her father Gordon, and car owner Johan Hässler for the offer of the passenger ride
By TOG Eurodragster.com
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