Pritona Racing Team

Sunday elimination started with a continuous drizzling rain soaking the pits, cars, spectators and race track. The way it kept on it seemed to be another rain out just like the first race at St Pod. Forecasts promised better weather midday, and at 2 PM it stopped raining and the track staff brought out the jet drier and sweepers.

Still it took a while and some oil down clean ups ate even more time and the Funny Cars started running a quarter past 6 with an 8 PM curfew. The question was if there was going to be time to run a semi final round since the finals would be out of reach in that time span.

Kjell who qualified #6 was facing #3 Jörgen Johnsson, both cars can run decent times, and on a weekend like this when everyone seemed to struggle more or less it was an open case who would win.

Johnsson reacted quicker on the starting line, but Kjell went after him when suddenly the blower belt broke. No supercharger boost, no power, Kjell coasted to a 6.587 @ 299.44 km/h while Jörgen Johnsson also had problems and got of the throttle early, scoring 6.340 @ 296.92 km/h, enough to take the win.

There wasn't going to be any more racing this weekend, after the first round another rain shower brought the whole event to a halt and no more racing was possible. After 2 FIA races, only 1 round of elimination has been run. Some better weather for race 3 at Mantorp Park is desperately needed. Kjell and Pritona Racing will be there.

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