After a rained out Main Event the Lucas Oil team travel to Alastaro Finland to do battle in the second round of the 2007 FIA European Top Fuel championship.

Welcome to Alastaro, Finland. A very warm welcome and thank you for tuning in to all at Lucas Oil, all our associate sponsors, our fans and friends.

Before we start it is with great sadness that we have to report the death of Flemming our truck driver and chef who died peacefully in his sleep last Friday - this one's for you Flemming!

Andy, Sarah and Albert arrived at Alastaro, Finland for round two of the FIA Top Fuel Championship on Tuesday morning, the truck and trailer arrived on Wednesday morning and the crew flew in on Wednesday afternoon. The pit is now all set up, with the Lucas Oil dragster up on stands and all ready to go, everyone is positive about the weekend ahead!  

Round one of Pro qualifying is at 11am local time tomorrow, stay tuned to www.andycarter.net where we will do our best to keep you up to date with the news from our pit.

Welcome back To Finland, the weather here is overcast with rain threatening. As I write, this weekend is a busy one for all the Lucas Oil / Carter Motorsport / Andersen Racing team, as well as being at this FIA round in Finland we have the other TF Dragster at the London Drag Racing Show in Ickenham near Ruislip. If you are stuck for something to do why not pop along and see what it's all about.

TF qualifying session 1. 2.30pm

(not in order)

Andy Carter - Right Lane - 6.49 – A planned 600 ft check out pass

T Nataas - Left Lane - 5.14
U Erbacher - Left Lane - 6.22 – A big fire for urs
L Joon - Right Lane - 5.50
J Ahonen - Left Lane - 5.36
J Persaker - Left Lane - 7.62
S Nystad - Right Lane - 6.96
T Haapanen - Right Lane - 10.01
M Kagered - Right Lane - 21.51 – Problems for Micke

(Not In Order)

Andy Carter - Left Lane - 8.30 - Lost Blower Belt

T Nataas - Right Lane - 6.84
U Erbacher - Right Lane - No Show
L Joon - Left Lane - No Time Came Up On Scoreboard
J Ahonan - Right Lane - 5.33
J Persaker - Right Lane - 7.11
S Nystad - Left Lane - No Show
T Haapanen - Left Lane - No Time Came Up On Scoreboard - Lost Blower Belt
M Kagered - Left Lane - 5.49 - Lost Blower Belt

A good run for Andy Carter in the Lucas Oil dragster – 5.29. “The car felt good, it really took off in the second half of the track, I’m very pleased with that.” said Andy. At the end of the session Andy occupies the third qualifying spot. Urs Erbacher ran a very good 5.05 to take number one spot. Ahonen and Nystad left oil in their lanes.

Due to the late running of this round it looks as though there will only be one more Top Fuel qualifying session.

The session in full (not in order)

Andy Carter - 5.29

T Nataas – 7.43
U Erbacher – 5.05
L Joon – 12.43
J Ahonen – Unknown, No Betterment
J Persaker – 5.53
S Nystad – 6.73
T Haapanen – 5.84
M Kagered – 5.49

The Lucas Oil dragster ran well again… improving to a 5.17. However Lex Joon stepped up running a 5.13 to drop us down to fourth place. Andy will face Micke Kagered in the first round tomorrow morning.

Andy Carter - 5.17

T Nataas – No Show
U Erbacher – No Show
L Joon – 5.13
J Ahonen – 5.27
J Persaker – 5.28
S Nystad – 5.57
T Haapanen – 5.89
M Kagered – 5.20

Good morning and welcome back to Alastaro. The Lucas Oil dragster was warmed up this morning and everyone is looking forward to the first round match up with Micke Kagered. A short while ago we towed down to the start line, but were turned around when it started to rain. The sky is very overcast and we are now back in the pits waiting for the weather to clear.

Andy takes the win over Micke! A fantastic pass by the Lucas Oil dragster – 4.93 at 489 kmph / 303 mph. Andy becomes the first person to run over 300mph at Alastaro. For ten minutes Andy also held the track record until Erbacher ran a 4.82 at 502kmph to defeat Siw nystad. Joon (5.04 at 454 kmph) beat Persaker and in a surprise victory Ahonnen (5.18 at 403kmph) beat Natass.

We move onto the semi final to face Urs Erbacher… we can’t wait!

It’s started raining here at Alastaro and the decision has been made to cancel the event. A disappointing end to the second FIA championship round as we would have loved to get the chance to race Erbacher in the semi final, however the car is running very well and we are more than confident going into the third round at Mantorp in three weeks time.

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