Vegter may well rue the decision to skip the Finnish event when the Dutch team come to peruse the final points standings at the end of the year as the runner-up spot in Hockenheim (coming of the back of round wins over MPM Oils team mate Marc Meihuizen, Bruno Bader and low qualifier Mats Eriksson) moved him up significantly in those potentially chasing second spot behind Wulcan. Vegter’s Camaro shook hard past the tree in the final and switched lanes to draft behind Wulcan’s Firebird otherwise he may well have benefitted from the Swede’s dramatic slowdown.

After clouting both walls at the season opener at Santa Pod, Mats Eriksson has bounced back into some sort of form, with Europe’s first five second Pro Mod dipping back into the five second zone at a domestic event in Sweden just prior to the NitrOlymp’X. Although notably slower, Eriksson benefitted from tip-toeing off the lane before motoring on to a 6.326/241.97 to lead the pack by over two tenths at the end of qualifying and picked up two byes into the semis thanks to the short ladder and a no-show. Fellow Swede Micke Gullqvist managed to nip low ET honours with a 6.306 in the first round of eliminations.