Unfortunately, heavy overnight rain continued deep into Sunday morning delaying the start of racing until late in the afternoon. Once underway there were many nervous glances towards the sky, and eventually the rain returned curtailing the event after most classes had managed a round of eliminations. Newly crowned FIM-E Top Fuel Bike champion Luke Farrugia had already done enough to take the first drag bike title back to Malta, had things been a bit tighter a nervous wait could have been on the cards after his Checkmate/Warpspeed Racing mount quit after the burnout in the first and only round of eliminations. The lucky recipient of Farrugia’s misfortune was Jiri Lukes, who picked up his first round win of the year by staging the PBR Rocket (Lukes only made eliminations by the thinnest of margins after almost being timed out on a 29.29 second roller thanks to the team chasing fuel pump drive issues all weekend). Another champion to surprisingly fall in the gloom was Marcus Christiansen.

Conditions changed a bit for the final qualifying day of the 2026 FIM-E season as the wind got up (fortunately straight down the track rather than a more problematic cross wind) ahead of a weather front moving in presaging a series of showers that clipped the final qualifying sessions for Super Street Bike and Junior Drag Bike. A stiff headwind for their first session today (third overall) and then the curtailment of the final session midway through class mitigated against improvements at the sharp end of the FIM-E Super Street Bike field. It remains as per yesterday with Daniel Donat Lencses (6.6310/223.63), Ioannis Lampropoulos (6.706/225.54), Alan Morrison Jnr (6.7082) and Jake Mechaell (6.7105/220.11) holding station as the quick quartet before heading into the 16 qualified bike ladder tomorrow. The championship will take a couple of eliminations round to unfold, but Lencses has padded his points lead thanks to a 6.6738/217.20 to snaffle the most bonus points in today’s only compl

The concluding event of the 2026 FIM-E season kicked off with an elongated first qualifying day at Santa Pod Raceway and with two qualifying sessions completed for all classes, the latter being under the lights for some spectacular night racing. Predicted as being the class to watch pre-event, FIM-E Super Street Bike hasn’t quite hit the heights at the sharp end (no 6.5s), but there were shots aplenty fired in the championship chase. After two sessions and some swapping of the little qualifying points, Daniel Donat Lencses produced a 6.6310/223.63 to take over pole position heading into the second day of qualifying tomorrow. Most adjacent is his nearest championship challenger Ioannis Lampropoulos with a 6.706/225.54 from his GSXR while Alan Morrison Jnr (6.7082) and Jake Mechaell (6.7105/220.11) round out the quick quartet at the head of the field. The top ten are in the sixes, the bump is currently 7.4473 and the fifteenth position is below the current class bump record. FIM-E Top Fu

FIM-E Drag Racing Championship, Round Four, 10th – 13th September 2026 And so to the conclusion of the 2026 FIM-E Dragbike championship tour, and back to the beginning with the return to Santa Pod Raceway which hosted the season opener back at the end of May. All five classes will be in action over the course of the weekend, with two championships pretty much wrapped up and another in the mathematical category. The remaining two titles present something of a puzzle and there will be personal bests to chase and grudges to settle in each and every eliminator. With eight bikes entered almost certainly taking a DNQ out of the equation, Luke Farrugia is heavily favoured to take the FIM-E Top Fuel Bike points title, with Thomas Pettersson the only challenger but this would require the Swede have a career defining weekend while the Maltese points leader drop dramatically off the form that has seen Farrugia take the event win in Sweden at the start of August and a run to the final in the incom

FIM-E Drag Racing Championship, Round Three, NitrOlympX, Hockenheimring, Germany A drama packed final day at Hockenheim kicked off with a third qualifier for FIM-E Super Street Bike before heading into eliminations across the five classes. Unfortunately, the upshot would be that a combination of scheduling quirks, a lengthy oildown and the local curfew would conspire to bring the event to a premature conclusion with all the finalists gathered in the staging lanes. With more plot twists than a HBO season, FIM-E Super Street Bike seemed to be the eliminator where no one wanted to grab hold of the championship. First up, championship leader Jake Mechaell spat a gearbox out on the additional early morning qualifier to end his day before it had started. Next up team-mates Ioannis Lampropoulus and Ioannis Martzaklis went out at the quarter-final stage, which gave Daniel Donat Lencses the opportunity to cash in big time after running the class best figures of 6.772/220 in the opening stanza a

FIM-E Drag Racing Championship, Round Three, NitrOlympX, Hockenheimring, Germany With the loss of all FIM-E qualifying yesterday, Saturday saw three rounds completed for some slotted in between showers that caused some nervousness when it split the second FIM-E Super Street Bike session. The class also missed their third session (along with the Juniors) due to the track curfew ahead of the night show, which led to a somewhat heated startline discussion and the close of play. FIM-E Top Fuel Bike, shorn of all but one nitro bike, was spectacular nonetheless when Luke Farrugia ripped off a 6.146/221 with the Checkmate Maltese Suzuki to grab the quickest Funnybike outside of North America bragging rights from Warpspeed team mate Stuart Crane. Crane slotting in at two on the qualifying sheets with a 6.477 with the third member of the team Mark Smith in at three with a 6.618, seven bikes in total putting in qualifying efforts. FIM-E Super Street Bike continued its run of dramatic and tension