FIM-Europe Top Fuel Bike

In the premier two wheeled category multi-time event winner Ian King had a comfortable journey to the winner’s circle despite an unexpectedly early start on Saturday morning (like most of the FIM-Europe teams) and a very late start to eliminations on the Sunday. That aside, King wheeled the Gulf Oil/GPO entry to low qualifying spot and low ET (both with a 6.249) and the event win over Fil Papafilippou in the final. The real head scratcher came with a 252.44mph clocking (if legit only the second fuel bike over the 250 mark) on a 6.46 in qualifying that came after hazing the slick earlier in the run to build up wheel speed. Whilst bogus terminals have been the subject of many a bench racing session, there might be something to this one as King also produced a pair of big 230mph+ clockings on later runs with the transmission geared for speed.

FIM-Europe Super Twin Bike

After missing out on a home win in Alastaro a month previously, Samu Kemppainen raced back into points contention with a win over a no-show from Roman Sixta who helped out the Skull Racing rider considerably when he upset low qualifier (the only Super Twin in the sixes with a 6.646) and incoming points leader Christian Jäger in the first round of eliminations. Sixta was unable to make the final round and Kemppainen spun the slick off the startline and rumbled through to round Jäger in the points with one event remaining.