King of Europe Dragster/Drift 2006 : 23/24/25 June 2006

[dragonnoir]

King of Europe Dragster/Drift 2006 : 23/24/25 June 2006



Hello guys,

Driver registration is opened for King of Europe 2006 that will be again on the Chimay track 23/24/25 June 2006.

Registration form can be requested through the web site, feel free also to check 2006 rules on the web site : http://www.kingofeurope.net

Spectator tickets are available through our online shop, you have been 8000 spectators in 2005, how much will you be in 2006 ?



Schedule :

Scruteneering starts friday afternoon.

Free practice and qualify on saturday.

Warm up and finals on sunday.




Shows : Dragster and Bike stunters show on saturday and sunday. Friday night and saturday night parties! With top fuel demo on saturday night!



The drift edition will be the same week-end on the other side of the track, more informations to follow about it.



Cheers,
Mike

[Mux213]

I'll be in HongKong that month... ohwell......

[ae86]

been there 2005
next year 3 days off fun

[dragonnoir]

Only 3 days to go for the fastest, loudest and craziest drag & drift event of the year!!

140 dragsters and 60 drifters from all over Europe!


This will be round 2 of the Drift Series, on the road to Dubai!





And on the dragside, lot of new fast cars coming from all over Europe but especcially from the Eastern Europe,
like these 3 cars :

Typhoon Dunlop No Limit VTG 9sec@400m



Corvette C3 4x4 InterCars VTG 9sec@400m



Civic Turbo Dunlop No Limit VTG 11sec@400m




Can Eastern Europe beat Western Europe on the road to the crown...We will know in 3 days!

All informations on http://www.kingofeurope.net

Free campsite. Gates open 24h a day!

Spectator price : 20euros.

[dragonnoir]

Dear all,

This 2006 dragster edition in Chimay deserve a longer review than last year, so here we go.



First of all, congratulations to Nigel Parkin the new King of Europe and by the way title stays in UK for the second year!



Spectators and drivers had a fantastic week-end again this year and this is our main objective! But the week-end was for sure not perfect...Important thing is to learn and improve the event next year! For us and for some drivers as well!



Most of the last year fastest drivers came back this year in Chimay. In the final Top16, we can see again Didier Billaut and his Dodge Challenger, Hervé Caen and his fast-but-not-yet-reliable Plymouth Barracuda and Ludovic Rys, the last frenchie in Top16 with his Corsa T16, he will be the only french in quarter final.

3 Brits, 2 Polish, 1 Italian, 1 Swedish and 1 French. Here is the final Top8. On the UK side, John Sleath of course, but also Kevin Preston and Nigel Parkin. On italian and swedish sides, well known Luca Lodi and feared Stefan Gustafsson! Last but not least on the polish side Arkadius Ozieblo (Audi RS4) and Thomas Nagorski (Lancer Evo 9).



All quarter finals will go through without any problem. Semi finals will be Luca Lodi vs Nigel Parkin and Stefan Gustafsson vs Kevin Preston. Due to disqualifications (more info below), Nigel Parkin get through the final and will win it on a bye run. 2007 will be without any doubt the year of the revenge for a lot of drivers!



Let me remind you that King of Europe has been created by dragracers for dragracers because we were tired to go to "business-oriented" competition where the #1 rule is money. Our #1 rules are security, competition, friendship and of course this event is made to crown the fastest european street legal car.



But "King of Europe" means nothing for the spectators, for our crew and even for the winner, if he is not recognized by the european dragracer community as the real fastest european street legal car!!! This year we have discovered the huge gap between last year first event where all drivers came to see "what's going on here" and this year where the drivers came with this event as their main objective of the year. You are now expecting a lot from this competition and we will upgrade the event to this required level.



This year, we had to take very hard decisions about 2 drivers : Luca Lodi and Stefan Gustafsson.



About Luca Lodi, his white Lancia Delta arrived in Chimay without headlights, turn signals, stop lights, wipers, horn and has been rejected at the friday's tech inspection, the italian crew has worked hard during all friday afternoon and evening to get the car in the rules : they succeeded. But a street car has to start on its own, it is clear for everyone, so clear that we did not even write it in the rules, so this could be discussed but on top of that, the italian crew has started the engine on the start line which is a restricted area where no one can access. These 2 reasons gave us the decision to disqualify Luca Lodi.



About Stefan Gustafsson, his front tires were not DOT as requested in the rules, we think that the tires the Camaro was running would not have cheated the competition BUT rules are the rules. His car has passed tech inspection with these tyres so it is part our fault also but Stefan knew very well the rules also and should have known that as a major contender for the crown, his car would have been checked again during the whole week-end by other contenders!



Anyway, some swedish spirits got too hot after the disqualification, i have heard really bad things about some Swedish crew behavior, this is totally unacceptable but Stefan came to our HQ after the show and has widely apologized for that.



We want to keep this "King of Europe" spirit and respect between drivers, let me remember you that when you race at King of Europe with your country flag on the car, you have to be proud and behave correctly when running your national colours.



About disqualification. For us, disqualification make only the current run lost because for example, as far as we saw for Luca Lodi, all the runs did before the semifinal, he came by its own on the start line and got no help, so he qualified correctly up to the semifinal, same for Stefan Gustafsson, until someone complaint about Stefan's car in the final, all other runs of Stefan has been validated. It is impossible for us to tech inspect each car on the start line at each run!



We had some other minor issues during the week-end, like oil on the strip, as well as water from intercooler spray, next year we will have a dedicated guy on track to check for any fluid leak on the car's line up, any leak will lead to pit return! Anyway the crew has worked very hard to clean up oil and get the track up and running again, thanks to them!



Another main hot point has been the sunday's bad weather. It was impossible for us not to have the KOE finals but weather was so unpredictable we were all turning crazy! We decided to call the military airport 50km away from Chimay, after several phone calls, they agree to make us a local forecast but the answer gave us more in trouble than before : "2 hours gap without rain : 66% reliable forecast". "2 hours gap without rain : 66% reliable forecast" : with this sentence, we had to make a choice, start running all drag classes till raining with not enough time for the King of Europe final... or take the Top4 or each SuperStreet Class and bring it to the KingofEurope Top16 without class finals.




Whatever the choice people will be disappointed. So we took the choice to shorten the finals but this made SuperStreet (#5 to #16) and Street drivers not happy at all, we understand and we apologize again for the drivers not able to race, we all know you were coming from so long but rain is the baddest issue you can have on a prepped dragstrip, please understand us.




By the way, even if class finals has been cancelled, we still have class winners based on qualification times, and we will send cup & price money for the 4 classes by regular mail.

SuperStreet RWD 1st : John Sleath - Audi S2

SuperStreet RWD 2nd : Kevin Preston - A60 PickUp

SuperStreet RWD 3rd : Didier Billaut - Dodge Challenger



SuperStreet FWD 1st : Marcin Wawrzak - Honda CRX

SuperStreet FWD 2nd : Witold Karalow - Honda Civic

SuperStreet FWD 3rd : Gianni Santi - Renault 5GT Turbo



SuperStreet 4WD 1st : Robert Pothorcki - GMC Syclone

SuperStreet 4WD 2nd : Tomasz Nagorski - Mitsubishi Evo 9

SuperStreet 4WD 3rd : Arkadiusz Ozieblo - Audi S4



Street (over 12.5) Winner : Christophe Galante - Peugeot 106

Street (over 12.5) 2nd : Lasse Much-Nielsen - Fiat Uno

Street (over 12.5) 3rd : Ludovic Ciuch - Lancer Evo 8


A lot of good stuff also happened in the week-end, like the jump of Poland into major drag racing countries, with 5 cars in the final Top16, Poland shew us we have to watch out for them at the next edition! Getting more major countries involved in the competition can only be good!




The very good saturday weather and the spectators who came as much as last year, close to 9.000! John sleath, like in 2005 has set a new record, it turned the chimay dragstrip from a 9sec open road track to a 8sec open road track with an incredible 8.960!!! Like last year also John had no luck in the big final...



Here are below 6 representatives from all over Europe who have dragracing background, who were all in Chimay and will return next year, they will check, comments, update and agrees the rules with us.

For UK : Jon Webster

For France : Didier Billaut

For Germany : Thorsten Appel

For Italy : Luca Lodi

For Sweden : Stefan Gustafsson

For Poland : Michal Trocki

Timings :
SS-RWD
Car First Name Last Name Reaction ET Speed
11 John Sleath 1.634 8.960 277.99
25 kevin preston 0.931 9.204 -
31 Didier Billaut 0.984 10.191 218.84
36 Herve Caen 1.421 10.367 230.77
14 Nigel Parkin 1.120 10.442 225.71
21 mark skinner 1.062 10.647 206.90
33 Reinhard Garbers 1.005 10.675 210.53
12 brian waskett 0.660 10.690 210.53
22 chris skinner 0.742 10.770 201.12
3 Jon Webster 0.974 10.927 227.85
24 brian nixon 0.884 10.934 209.91
28 Michael Weber 0.823 11.005 206.30
41 Ville Haga 2.142 11.268 203.97
19 marc lamude 1.275 11.279 225.00
20 thierry SENGES 1.300 11.536 164.01
26 lee scannell 0.611 11.699 205.71
16 SIMON BOOT 0.745 12.004 205.13
35 Rik Hak 0.882 12.352 177.78
7 Chris Richards 0.913 12.530 182.28
17 ken weale 1.150 12.774 176.90
99 oben jhonny 1.350 13.699 168.62
29 barry george 1.281 14.947 152.22
40 Ira Bel 1.214 15.320 152.22
5 BEAL Jordan 1.227 15.336 150.00
9 Bizjak Tony 1.208 17.878 145.75
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SS-4WD
Car First Name Last Name Reaction ET Speed
101 Robert Pothorcki 2.005 9.844 240.00
109 Tomasz Nagorski 1.237 9.967 244.90
119 Arkadiusz Ozieblo 1.016 10.202 225.71
113 Marcin Blauth 1.140 10.352 213.65
117 luca lodi 0.826 10.584 191.49
115 Heiko Fulsche 0.872 10.778 219.51
111 corbin michel 1.003 10.977 207.49
199 Cees Gorter 1.083 11.642 199.45
110 Marcel van Dale 1.283 11.722 198.90
198 Jeffrey Sol 0.970 11.851 196.19
120 ANASTASI Eric 1.083 12.109 184.14
102 Jamie Vugts 1.047 12.306 177.78
103 wouter dijk 0.857 12.341 183.67
123 LE CAER Régis 0.968 12.842 179.55
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SS-FWD
Car First Name Last Name Reaction ET Speed
299 MARCIN WAWRZAK 0.801 11.675 212.39
207 Witold Karalow 1.224 11.810 214.93
201 GIANNI SANTI 0.556 12.077 200.00
211 RYS ludovic 0.526 12.226 176.47
210 Roel De Greef 0.740 12.267 182.74
208 van parys laurent 1.173 12.446 194.59
204 LAROUZIERE CEDRIC 1.185 12.617 184.62
202 Martijn Van Bakel 0.782 12.892 193.03
206 Carlo Hulsen 1.044 13.125 194.07
212 Pieter Oonincx 1.428 13.145 186.05
203 Clémendot Franck 1.405 14.650 159.29
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Street
Car First Name Last Name Reaction ET Speed
362 Vetsch Jean-Yves 1.263 10.687 272.73
350 zodia jimmy 0.931 11.577 196.19
353 Thomas Brandes 0.983 12.395 147.24
363 Christophe Galante 1.163 12.511 190.48
352 Lasse Munch-Nielsen 1.117 12.522 192.00
349 CIUCH LUDOVIC 0.903 12.565 182.28
347 thorsten appel 1.011 12.613 172.66
377 ETHEVE JOEL 0.783 12.720 170.62
331 darren scannnel 1.168 12.749 192.00
321 Mischa Kuipers 0.896 12.843 178.22
359 CHERGUI MYLOUD 1.234 13.028 181.36
392 yves van herreweghe 1.141 13.146 167.44
397 laruelle jerome 0.977 13.220 180.45
303 Martijn Posthumus 0.846 13.238 170.62
310 ROUYER JEFF 0.958 13.310 175.61
338 zoons ronny 1.151 13.329 174.76
322 Ronald Andre Steuper 1.159 13.341 163.27
320 Lukasz Granat 1.361 13.383 180.00
396 hackiere cyril 1.261 13.479 169.41
391 Phillipe Kuypers 1.455 13.484 168.62
382 Dubant Meredit 1.105 13.576 177.78
372 Daniel Möller 1.046 13.599 184.62
317 Miranda Van Herwaarden 1.072 13.712 173.08
361 Simonnet Ludovic 1.056 13.746 179.10
306 Stockmans Tim 1.065 13.764 178.22
345 marijn albers 0.843 13.804 165.90
329 WAFFLARD DAVID 1.192 13.818 174.33
309 BOURRET Reine 0.872 13.903 184.14
356 Jacobs Christofe 0.828 13.957 158.94
316 könig fabrice 3.781 13.966 171.84
394 Jens de Ruijter 1.063 14.027 165.14
301 Geert Claes 1.455 14.052 160.00
332 john dewey 1.068 14.228 163.27
368 Brunet-De Groot Vanessa 1.210 14.254 153.19
366 ghyselinck ludovic 0.832 14.271 157.89
381 Claude Leroy 1.355 14.371 159.29
390 Frederik Peeters 0.966 14.438 163.27
360 LACHIHEB Jamel 0.991 14.551 162.53
325 JENARD David 1.116 14.585 -
365 WESSELY RUDY 1.140 14.613 160.71
373 MORIN SANDRA 1.207 14.649 156.86
328 roberto spano 1.067 14.743 157.55
337 Piotr Mazur 0.894 14.793 159.65
374 Leclerq fabrice 0.894 14.856 140.62
330 STEVENS Gregory 0.770 14.980 149.38
315 Jeroen Dierckx 1.086 15.053 172.66
311 Christophe Decolvenaere 1.395 15.130 161.43
344 Felix Hertel 0.951 15.305 148.76
395 david daniels 1.259 15.855 143.14
380 Sentier Julien 0.737 16.057 127.66
313 ENCHE BENOIT 1.274 16.058 133.33
307 steensels raf 1.277 16.223 138.73
341 diaz dan 1.078 16.732 142.57
304 Herwig Bellefroid 1.377 16.825 133.09

On the drift side, Big Boys are in the arena!!!

Championship has really started in the second round of the Toyo Tires King of Europe Drift Series with most of the european well known drifters.



Once again, drifters made an incredible show for the crowd! Chimay track was used for the first time as a drift track and the main 90degrees curvy corner has put a lot of drifters in trouble during the whole week-end. Anyway the 10.000 spectators (mostly came for the dragrace) has discovered what drifting lifestyle is all about!



Once again, BMW was the number 1 brand in the drift pit area! but some funny cars were there, like a old Ford V8 Mustang or Ford Sierra Wagon!



A new record of 65 drifters came to this round 2, mainly from the Benelux area but also coming from France, Switzerland, Poland and nordic countries.



After qualifications, Top 16 moved to a classic Twin Battle finals



Olaf Commijs will finish 4th, after beating the unknown BMW M5 drifter Franck Lagalice, he will fail against Mike De Bruyn in semi-final.



Yves Faber from Luxemburg and his Nissan S14 has pushed hard on the track during all the week-end and in the Top16 battle. But he will not be able to stop Remmo Niezen in semi-final and he will take the 3rd Place



Mike de Bruyn was close to win, he shew a very high drifting level but he was still missing something to beat Remmo. Mike finish at the 2nd place.



Remmo Niezen and his orange BMW M3 has impressed everybody from beginning of the week-end and nobody has been able to stop him. With 9 points in the pocket, Remmo takes the lead of the championship!!!




For this round, Drifters were judged by BE Drift Series Judges.



Championship 2006

Qualified for Dubai Drift Challenge
1 Remmo Niezen BMW M3 9
2 Rafal Lech BMW 535i 9
3 Mike de Bruyn BMW 535i 6

more info on http://www.kingofeurope.net

See you in Finland/Sweden for the round 3 & 4...