DRAGSTALGIA! 16th -17th July Santa Pod
Posted: Wed Jul 06, 11 10:50 am
The Circus is coming to Santa Pod!
The Gasser Wars were waged on the Drag Strips across America during the 60’s and early 70’s. Originally with a nose high stance to aid traction, they quickly became a favourite with the crowds and promoters alike. The Gasser Circus was founded in 2003 to promote and stay true to the early years. Year on year the Gasser Circus has developed and this year 16 Gassers are signed up to compete in the inaugural ‘Gasser Circus Showdown’ with Round 3 being contested at Dragstalgia.
The introduction of the new Dragstalgia event on the 16th/17th July provided the perfect opportunity for Santa Pod Raceway to invite this ever popular class to host a round of the championship. With the event being a celebration of the early days of Drag Racing at Santa Pod, Dragstalgia and the Gasser Circus is a match made in heaven so the organisers are hoping for another fantastic double figure turnout from these classic machines.
The entries from other classes is not looking too shabby neither and they expect approximately 7 Fuel Altereds, over 15 Wild Bunch Cars, over 10 Supercharged Outlaws and a healthy entry from the Outlaw Anglias and Outlaw Street Series. Of course this is on top of the newly introduced Top Sportsman Class which will be running for the first time at Dragstalgia and the wide variety of vehicles that will be running as a part of the Historic Vehicle Sessions and RWYB. We have recently released the RWYB sign on tickets so you can even pay in advance to secure your track time at this Nostalgic weekend.
There will be a shootout from the Brighton and Hove Motor Club who are primarily a Sprint Racing organisation. Many Drag Racers from the early days originated from Sprint Racing and one member in particular, Jim Tiller still races in both sports. Jim who is also a member of the Allard owners club will be racing at Dragstalgia in his awesome Allard J2X will be looking to set his fastest quarter mile time yet. Currently his best time is 9.8 seconds so you can be sure that Jim will not be hanging around. One of Jim’s crewmen also helped to put together the original Allard Chrysler Dragster, the first purpose built Dragster in the UK, a machine that will also be on display at the event.
In addition to this already stunning line up of on track action will be Ronnie Picardo in his Historic Wheelie Stingray, Martin Hill in the FireForce 3 Jet Car and Julian Webb in the Split Second Jet Dragster.
The line up of evening entertainment has now began to take shape and the organisers promised to have some fantastic acts lined up. As well as a collection of scantily clad burlesque dancers, there's the awesome 3 piece Rockabilly group The Cheaterslicks playing alongside The Humdingers who will be Putting their slant on old rock and roll and country classics.
Elsewhere on site will be a BBMF Flypast with a WWII Spitfire, the Historic F1 Stock Car club doing demo races around an oval track, Show n Shine competition, Live Evening Entertainment and even a Cacklefest and Flaming Burnout display. Day tickets start from just £14 and weekend tickets from just £25, and if you want to bring the little ones along, kids under 16 are free too giving you the ideal opportunity to show them a real history lesson!
The Gasser Wars were waged on the Drag Strips across America during the 60’s and early 70’s. Originally with a nose high stance to aid traction, they quickly became a favourite with the crowds and promoters alike. The Gasser Circus was founded in 2003 to promote and stay true to the early years. Year on year the Gasser Circus has developed and this year 16 Gassers are signed up to compete in the inaugural ‘Gasser Circus Showdown’ with Round 3 being contested at Dragstalgia.
The introduction of the new Dragstalgia event on the 16th/17th July provided the perfect opportunity for Santa Pod Raceway to invite this ever popular class to host a round of the championship. With the event being a celebration of the early days of Drag Racing at Santa Pod, Dragstalgia and the Gasser Circus is a match made in heaven so the organisers are hoping for another fantastic double figure turnout from these classic machines.
The entries from other classes is not looking too shabby neither and they expect approximately 7 Fuel Altereds, over 15 Wild Bunch Cars, over 10 Supercharged Outlaws and a healthy entry from the Outlaw Anglias and Outlaw Street Series. Of course this is on top of the newly introduced Top Sportsman Class which will be running for the first time at Dragstalgia and the wide variety of vehicles that will be running as a part of the Historic Vehicle Sessions and RWYB. We have recently released the RWYB sign on tickets so you can even pay in advance to secure your track time at this Nostalgic weekend.
There will be a shootout from the Brighton and Hove Motor Club who are primarily a Sprint Racing organisation. Many Drag Racers from the early days originated from Sprint Racing and one member in particular, Jim Tiller still races in both sports. Jim who is also a member of the Allard owners club will be racing at Dragstalgia in his awesome Allard J2X will be looking to set his fastest quarter mile time yet. Currently his best time is 9.8 seconds so you can be sure that Jim will not be hanging around. One of Jim’s crewmen also helped to put together the original Allard Chrysler Dragster, the first purpose built Dragster in the UK, a machine that will also be on display at the event.
In addition to this already stunning line up of on track action will be Ronnie Picardo in his Historic Wheelie Stingray, Martin Hill in the FireForce 3 Jet Car and Julian Webb in the Split Second Jet Dragster.
The line up of evening entertainment has now began to take shape and the organisers promised to have some fantastic acts lined up. As well as a collection of scantily clad burlesque dancers, there's the awesome 3 piece Rockabilly group The Cheaterslicks playing alongside The Humdingers who will be Putting their slant on old rock and roll and country classics.
Elsewhere on site will be a BBMF Flypast with a WWII Spitfire, the Historic F1 Stock Car club doing demo races around an oval track, Show n Shine competition, Live Evening Entertainment and even a Cacklefest and Flaming Burnout display. Day tickets start from just £14 and weekend tickets from just £25, and if you want to bring the little ones along, kids under 16 are free too giving you the ideal opportunity to show them a real history lesson!
