Veidec Racing Pro Stock Bike Team

The Veidec Racing Pro Stock Bike team started their sucessful European Finals early with a Tuesday arrival in time for testing at Wednesday's Press Day, says Crew Chief Roger Lyrén.

"The Press Day is very good for testing, and for meeting all the Press in a more relaxed way", says Roger. "The Veidec team had three runs for Helen Curran and two for Roger Pettersson, and we learned a lot for Helen with her personal best, 7.570 and a 7.320 for Roger (which is lower than the record!). The conditions were very good, no head or side wind as there normally is at Santa Pod. All of this was very promising for the European Finals starting on Friday, could we go to the 7.2 zone?

"Qualifying started OK for Roger, 7.395 which gave us the number one spot. Helen had bad luck, she ran a 7.90 and that was on only four gears rolling through line. An electrical problem just cut the ignition just when Helen put in the fifth gear and on these two-valve engines the valves on intake are very close to the piston so it just hit and also broke the cam chain, four valves and tappets. Since this is Roger's spare engine we had to repair it at the track. We don't usually do work like this at the track, we just change engine, but now we didn't have any choice. As usual Roger from MotoSpeed had lots of spares and we found some blank valves, retainers and tappets, so we could repair it.

The whole team started to work on the engine and it was ready at three o'clock on Saturday morning.

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"Sadly, Helen missed the first qualifying on Saturday morning because the nut came off the sprocket. So now there was only one more chance for Helen to qualify. When the last qualifying session started, the wind got wery strong and with one pair left, Helen and Samuele Spiga, they stopped the session. After about two hours the wind speed went down so Helen could make her run, and a 7.66 put her in sixth position (sorry to Kenneth Stromberg for bumping him out). Roger stayed in first position, this is is sixth number one qualifer this year, he also set low ET and high speed at every race.

 

Sunday's race gave us lots of good tight racing. Roger went through the first round against Martin Bishop and the semi again Anders Larsson, Roger running 7.35 which was low ET and a track record. Roger beat Vesa Rautio in the final. Helen faced Chris Hope in the first round, she was out first but Chris made his best run of the weekend at 7.49, beating Helen.

(Thank you! - Ed). Big thanks also to all of the team: Roger, Helen, Henke, Lasse, Atle, Pal, Stefan and Dick for making this weekend possible, of course thanks also to all the families who took care of everything at home when we were away.

Now we heading for USA to meet the big boys and girls in NHRA we will do the 2 last races Las Vegas and Pomona, last time we raced there 1998 we qualified no:14 and the goal for this trip is to be in the race for Sunday.

"Thanks also to all of our sponsors: