FIA Pro Modified

If Top Fuel was full of upsets and pedaling, FIA Pro Modified saw a performance blitz like few others in history that propelled Mats Eriksson into the winner’s circle and the 2009 championship. Eriksson and the Green Goblin came into the event with the only 6.0 second ticket in Europe thanks to a record setting 6.09 in Hockenheim, a mark he dispatched with an astounding off the trailer 5.988/241.59 to be the first into the five second zone and claim both ends of the Euro record. When the ME Racing Crown Victoria got to the finish line under power over the rest of the weekend the numbers on the scoreboard were equally impressive, with clockings of 6.042/237.78, 6.012/239.87, 6.044/238.89, 6.016/239.03 and a 6.028/238.91 eventually taking the Swede to the event win over good friend Micke Gullquist and vaulting him ahead of pre-race points leader Andy Robinson to carry the number one plate into next season. The rest of the field will spend the winter trying to find the extra horsepower Eriksson has displayed over the second half of the season.

Micke Gullquist and the Lucas Oil 57 Chevy managed to move up into second place in the championship with his runner-up finish at the Euro Finals, a great return for Gullen after some troubled qualifying shots, and he did have a shot at taking the title if he’d have been able to defeat Eriksson in the final and gain the extra points on offer for running low ET of the meeting. The former was a possibility, but not even Gullquist thought he stood a chance of the latter. A 6.141/231.42 was a pretty good shot but not close enough to Eriksson’s 6.028/238.91 winner.