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This weekend has to go down as being one of the most exciting drag racing weekends so far.

Stuck in a 9.4 second rut for several months, the CPL Racing Civic had struggled to go any quicker than its 9.45 record ET, but in preparation for the 2014 season CPL's Guy, Paul and Sam took the car to the Jap Show Finale at Santa Pod Raceway with a few upgrades to test. On the first practice run the driveshaft popped out. On the second run some aerodynamic modifications made to the front decided to depart company with the rest of the car at 160 mph. So the CPL Civic ended the Saturday in less than perfect shape and confidence was low.

Sunday morning brought great weather, and an ever increasing crowd was gathering in the grandstand in anticipation of the first round of qualifying of the FWD Drag Series. With the car sitting in the water box Paul signalled Guy to start his burnout, and with the burnout completed the pin was pulled out of the parachute. The car left the line, the run was good and yes! the little CPL Civic set another new European Honda record of 9.12 seconds 167mph, smashing the previous time. This new record was backed up later in the day by highly consistent 9.17, 9.22 and 9.26 second passes.

Also this weekend Richard Batty ran 8.99 in his FWD Mitsubishi, making his car quickest FWD in UK, so a big well done to him.

Meanwhile, over at the Hal Far drag strip in Malta, dedicated drag racer Miguel Montebello had just run a remarkable 9.34 second pass taking the European record for a matter of hours for the quickest Honda in Europe in his DC2, only to have the record taken back by the CPL Civic with its 9.12. A huge well done to Miguel though, who has a highly impressive car having seen it in the flesh a few weeks ago.

Congratulations to Richard and Miguel on your achievements, and to Guy, Paul and Sam running the CPL car, on the new record and winning the Jap Show Finale event, not bad considering you'd only gone for a bit of testing.

It's worth noting that, unlike many other cars competing, the CPL car is entirely UK built with the engine, gearbox, suspension and other aspects of the car designed and built in-house right here in our workshop in Sheerness, and it's tuned in-house here on the CPL dyno (1021 bhp). The engine durability has exceeded even our own expectations, having run three years without a blip or refresh. I think it must be due one now......

So we have the CPL Civic running 9.12 ET at 167.89 mph and Richard Batty's FWD Mitsubishi running 8.99 ET at 167.32 mph.
Mitsubishi - quickest FWD in UK at 8.99 seconds ET
CPL Honda - fastest FWD in UK and Europe at 167.89 mph

As someone put it on Facebook yesterday................it's good to share.........

Lynn - CPL Racing
#3690771
Excellent results :salut:

But from a complete NOOBs point of view......how can the Mitsi get a quicker time, with a marginally slower speed? 167.32mph compared to Guys 167.89mph. I assume there are many more factors dependant on his time than simply the speed.
#3690792
^Fast and quick are two different things bro

You can still be faster but not quicker

e.g. When I race big power Focus RS's at the drag strip they will trap at 110mph and take 13.5 seconds to cover 1320 feet.
The civic will trap at 105mph and cover 1320 feet in 13.4 seconds

The Focus is faster but the civic is quicker and takes the win.

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