Antti Horto

In the final four Horto picked up another freebie when Liam Jones got jumpy at the startline, but Horto's winning 4.426 turned the block into a ventilated ornament and meant a no-show in the final. With a single, it might have been expected that Kågered would idle through, but the team had decided to give it a go although his luck was clearly in as a fuel line blew off shortly after the stab of the throttle. The question "lucky or good?" produced "a bit of both" from a thoughtful Kågered prior to the prize giving, the Swede now has vaulted into the points lead with the tricky NitrolympX next on the calendar, a venue where he has a pretty healthy record in recent years.

Stig Neergaard looked to be on a tear in Alastaro, repeatedly setting low numbers in the qualifying sessions and seemed to be sitting pretty when it came to eliminations with the low qualifier spot tied down with a 4.282 on a very early shut-off. The first round saw the Dane defeat TF rookie Stefan Gunnarsson (making the field for the first time in his BSG rail) but the semifinal had the Eye of the Storm dragster chucking stuff from about 100 feet out before making like a blowtorch from half track onwards and handing the win to Kågered.

Liam Jones took his first round win in Top Fuel in the quarter finals when he left on incoming points leader Anita Mäkelä and out ran her with a 4.247 to a 4.248. This defeat of the fans favourite probably made Jones the most hated (in a typically friendly Finnish fashion) racer on the facility; his crew felt like giving a bit of a metaphorical kick after the rookie double stepped before the tree ran in his semifinal against RFM team mate Horto and the Brit and his crew were even more 'philosophic' after seeing both Horto and Kågered hit mechanical woes and reflect on what could have been.