Racers Page – FIA European Drag Racing Championship
Information relevant for participants in the FIA European Drag Racing Championship.
In case you have questions to which you don´t find answers on this page, please contact DRE. FIA is the sanctioning body for the FIA European Drag Racing Championship www.fia.com
Drag Racing Europe AB ("DRE") is assigned by the FIA as promoter and administration for the Championship. General contact email address: info@dragracingeurope.org
EVENT ENTRY
Entry is currently different for all of the tracks. This will be organised better in the future.
Links to event entry to race. Events open for entry with minimum 8 weeks before the event:
Santa Pod, England: entries.santapodracersclub.com
Tierp Arena, Sweden: dragracing.eu
HockenheimRing, Germany: www.nitrolympx.de (– info – for racers – entry)
TECHNICAL REGULATIONS & EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIP RULES (SPORTING REGULATIONS)
Link to the page on the FIA:s website where the Sporting & Technical Regulations are published.
Please note that it is every competitors responsibility to read the rules and to comply with the FIA Regulations when participating in the FIA European Drag Racing Championship.
FIA CHAMPIONSHIP CATEGORIES & REGISTRATION
Championship categories:
FIA Top Fuel Dragster (TF)
FIA Top Methanol (Dragster & Funny Car) (TM)
FIA Pro Modified (PM)
FIA Pro Stock Car (PRO)
To compete in a FIA European Drag Racing Championship event registration fee has to be paid to the Championship administration at the latest 30 days before taking part in any Championship round. There are options to pay for a singel event, all events or to upgrade later after having paid for two single events. The FIA Championship registration fee is in addition to all normal race entry fees. A driver can compete in more than one FIA category after paying one championship fee.
* Specification of registration fees:
FIA – Swedish VAT registered company, including VAT – 1000€
FIA – VAT registered company within the EU – 800€
FIA – Company outside the EU – 800€
FIA – Private person incl 200VAT – 1000€
FIA - SIngle event fee incl VAT 375€
*Discounts may be available, please check the registration shop. VAT will automatically be deducted when entering a valid VAT number.
Registration and payment of the entry fee for the FIA European Drag Racing Championship is administered by DRE.
Championship registration is handled via www.fia-dragracing.com. Non-registered competitors will not be able to compete at FIA Championship events.
EVENT ENTRY FEE
The Event Entry Fee for the FIA categories is paid to each organizer. Entry procedure currently differs between organizers. Ticket allocation for each entry in the FIA categories is set to 10.
FIA COMPETITION LICENSE
Drivers must hold a FIA International Competition license valid for drag racing and specifically for the category of vehicle to be driven. It is applied for via the National ASN (motorsports federation).
ANTI-DOPING
Each driver is personally responsible for keeping updated and complying with the anti-doping regulations at all times. If you are a driver or rider active in the FIA championship or just interested to learn more, please take a moment to study the information provided at the FIA website to make sure You are not using any substances that are prohibited or need to be notified to FIA by the use of a Therapheutic Use Exemption Application Form (referred to as TUE).
You will find all you need to know incl the TUE Application Form here: http://www.fia.com/anti-doping
NAME & NATIONALITY DISPLAY ON VEHICLE
Each driver shall display his/her name together with a decal of his national flag on each side of the drivers’ compartment on his racing vehicle (example shown below)
FIA LOGO DISPLAY
On the drivers suit: Each driver must display the FIA European Drag Racing Championship logotype in chest height on the right hand front side of his driver’s suit. Minimum size 80 x 80 millimeter
All registered FIA Drivers is provided an embroidered FIA-logo patch free of charge by DRE. Also available to collect from DRE staff at championship events.
FIA LOGO FOR EMBROIDERY DIRECT ON THE DRIVERS SUIT
If You wish to embroid the FIA logo onto your drivers suit,
we can provide an embroidery file free of charge (normally cost around €80-100 to produce one). The file can be used direct in most type of embroidery machines – the file provided is Tajima format (.dst)
FIA LOGO DISPLAY ON VEHICLE
Each driver must display the FIA European Drag Racing Championship logotype each side of his racing vehicle.
Minimum size 120 x 120 millimeter
Placement:
– for Dragsters on the outside bottom rear corner of the rear wings spill plates
– for Funny Cars on the outside upper rear corner of the rear wings spill plates
– for Pro Stock and Pro Modified Cars on the rear quarter panel.
All registered FIA Drivers are provided FIA-stickers for the race cars free of charge by the FIA Championship administrator. Request stickers from info@dragracingeurope.org
For high resolute FIA Logos that can be used for print in big formats (for display on transportation vehicles etc.) please request a file via email to the above adress.
FIA COMPETITION NUMBERS
Each driver must have a current FIA European Drag Racing Championship competition number and display it on the car car. To indicate which class an FIA race car belongs to the competition number is accompanied by an abbreviation code for the class (see top of this page after the class name)
HOW TO REQUEST A FIA COMPETITION NUMBER (NON TOP-10)
Please contact us via email for information and assistance, send a start number request to info@dragracingeurope.org.
The race numbers 1-10 is on loan to competitors based on the final ranking based on championship points the previous season. Competitors ranked in the top 10 shall display their ranking number on their car (well visible) when participating in any FIA European Drag Racing Championship events, instead of their regular race/start number. Drivers not ranked 1-10 or who did not participate in the previous season championship shall use their regular race number.
FERRY DISCOUNTS
We are constantly working on getting better discounts for ferry travel and it has been hard to reach the good agreements we had with Finnlines earlier years.
Finnlines has routes between Sweden, Finland and Germany.
Travel benefits for passenger-,pets-,cabin and vehicle prices for transport journeys is 5 % outbound and 20% on the return. To get the 20% return discount, it has to be on the same reservation number as the outbound.
The Discount can not be combined with other discount codes or discounts, except for the 20% for the return transport journey that are available on all subsequent routes on the same booking after the first route.
If you have a big trailer they might try to put you on “freight” booking, you have to tell them that this is not freight, it is private race car for competition only.
Following vehicles must be booked via call center: Buses and over 12-m-long vehicles. Discount code is "SPEED".
For info on discounts for crossings over the British Channel with DFDS, please check the website of the organising clubSanta Pod Racers Club
CONTACT THE ORGANISERS
Tierp Arena: www.speedevents.se, info@speedevents.se
Event entry to be made via www.dragracing.eu
Santa Pod Racers Club– Ian Marshall Santa Pod Racers Club
Contact: ir.marshall@btconnect.comTel SPRC office: +44 (0)1933 – 313625
Event entry forms for download on Santa Pod Racers Club´s website:
Link to website Santa Pod Racers Club
HockenheimRing/Badischer Motorsport club (BMC):
bmc@hockenheimring.de
Contact: Sabine Tesseraux Tel BMC office: +49 (0) 6205 – 950 170
www.nitrolympx.com Racers Pages
DO YOU HAVE NEWS TO SHARE?
If your team have official news to share, we will be happy to publish it on the FIA Championship website and Facebook group. Remco Scheelings is assigned media officer for the FIA European Drag Racing Championship. remco.scheelings@speedgroup.eu
FIA EUROPEAN DRAG RACING CHAMPIONSHIP ON FACEBOOK
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FIAdragracingchampionship
