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Andy Carter 32 Years of Winning!

In the highly competitive arenas of motorsport and business, the real winners are those who not only have the talent, the education and the will to succeed, it is those who possess that elusive star quality known as the X  factor who really stand out from the crowd. Andy Carter has the X  factor, and for the past twenty five years has proved beyond doubt that he was destined to reach the very pinnacle of both disciplines. Andy is now the undisputed King of European Drag Racing and represents the new breed of professionals with the vision and commitment to take his sponsors, his team and his country to the winner’s podium.

Born and raised in North London, England, Andy’s first passion was football and he was soon selected to represent his school and several local teams. Aged just thirteen, he started helping a local champion who competed at oval track racing and by sixteen he was racing himself in National Hot Rods, building his own cars from the ground up and winning over twenty-five trophies. In 1982, Andy made the switch to Drag Racing and the rest, as they say, is history. He started in the Street class, again in a car he built himself and was soon to become one of the most feared and respected Street Racers in the country. In 1987, realizing his car was starting to become uncompetitive; Andy built the first ever tube framed, fiberglass-bodied Street car in the UK and came back with a vengeance! During the next season, Andy won all there was to win in the class. In 1990 he moved to Super Gas for the next two seasons. By 1992, Andy had moved to yet another class; Outlaw Anglia. The big talk in Europe at the time was who would run the first seven-second pass in an Anglia. To do this and to try and win the championship, Andy built a new-from-the-ground-up car, with a Pro Stock Chassis and blown 500 cu in Keith Black engine fuelled by methanol. During 1994, Andy was Number One qualifier at six of the eight rounds entered, also winning six rounds and winning the championship outright before the season ended. In September of that year he became the owner and driver of The World’s Fastest Anglia, running an incredible 7.57 at 181 mph and taking the record away from America. Toward the end of the season Andy decided to contest the biggest, baddest, and loudest class of Drag Racing; FIA Top Fuel Dragster! A new car was built ready for the prestigious 1995 European Top Fuel Championship. Andy managed to win the British Championship and came eighth in the European series. In 1996, he came seventh in the European Championship, and was England’s number two racer. For 1997 a new, much lighter and better equipped car was built by Carter Motorsport’s team of ten and this took Andy and his dedicated crew, to the Number Six spot in Europe and number two in England. In December 1997, Andy moved his entire racing operation to Dallas in the United States, so that he and his team could compete at the very top level of the sport in front of a global audience.In 2000, Andy decided that he wanted to compete in the FIA European Championships again.

The following year he won the FIA Top Fuel European Championship outright and re-established his reputation as one of the toughest drivers outside of the USA. For the 2002 Championship, Andy took the number four position, setting the European ET record and running the first 300 mph pass on his way. The 2003 season was curtailed by a horrific 280 mph crash in Norway while Andy was in the number two slot. 2004 saw Andy back on form taking the European Championship crown for the second time, the only driver to do so in its entire history!

At the time of writing, Andy is by far the most successful driver in FIA European Top Fuel history following back-to-back titles in 08 and 09, whilst setting numerous European speed/ET records and track records along the way.

 

Nigel Morris, the owner of L.A. Supertrux Ltd, started building his first real Monster Truck in the autumn of 2000. This project which later was given the name Wild Child. Later that year Nigel visited the USA to include a visit to Dan Patrick, at his Samson workshop, and then on to BIGFOOT

In 2007 the BIGFOOT17 team achieved with support from Lucas Oil something no monster truck racing team has ever been able to before. BIGFOOT17 has just become the first European Monster Truck Racing Team to retain the EMTRC title.

In 2006 proudly wearing the Lucas Oil shield on the truck body the BIGFOOT17 team became the first team ever in Europe to regain the EMTRC title, having won in 2003, placed second in 2004 and joint third in 2005, finally winning again in 2006.

The 2007 season was a stellar year; just take a look at the numbers!! Six Racing Rounds-Five Final Round Appearances-Four Event Wins-One Second Place-One DNF: Quite a year!!

Owner and driver Nigel Morris said, "This has been a huge team effort. The entire team have all been important working very hard in their own departments. I would also like to thank the BIGFOOT17 team sponsors and in particular Les Downey of Lucas Oils each of whom contributes immeasurably to our racing efforts".

Anthony started out in Motorsports back in 1978 when he competed in Motorcycle grass track competition before stepping up to Speedway racing. He retired from this after injury, and got into Historic Car racing with a 1934 Brooklands Singer.
He has raced in a variety of historic disciplines, and now competes in the EuroBOSS series with an ex Formula 1 Footwork Cosworth.

Ex Van Diemen engineers Lindsay Allen and Roger Littin formed Fluid Motorsport Development late in 2004, having worked together for many years accumulating a string of successes both in Formula Ford both in the UK and Europe with drivers who went on to achieve great success such as Marcus Ambrose, Patrick Long, James Courtney, Ricardo van der Ende they decided to try to go it alone.

Their first venture Nexa Racing was founded in 2002. Their first taste of success came when they won the Formula Ford winter series with Sebastian Hohenthal, building on this early success Lindsay and Roger signed Finnish hopeful Valle Makela who achieved 3rd in the 2003 UK Formula Ford Championship in his first season and then went on to take the title in his 2nd season with the team, taking 10 race wins from 20 starts.

In 2005 having found success in Formula Ford Lindsay and Roger were ready for their next challenge and decided to branch out into Formula 3 with the Lola chassis, running young Brit Ben Clucas who scored a debut pole and victory at Monza.  They followed in their winning ways in 2006 signing South African Cristiano Morgado who scored no less than 18 podium finishes including 4 wins from 22 races and claiming 2nd place in the National Class Championship.

In 2008 Lucas Oil are helping them to build on their success and so far the team are currently leading the Formula 3 National Class Championship by 24 points

Tony Lynch has years of rally experience competing in local and national events until 2005 where we moved into raly cross, he has then gone onto winning the MDA rally cross and stock championships 3 years running. In 2008 Lucas Oil  Products are supporting Team Geriatric to help them continue their success in the MSA Championship with their Peugeot 205 Gti

2010 looks to be a promising year for Tony and the team as they look to take on a new challenge by competing in the Suzuki Championship

Formed in 1990 B A Racing consists of driver Philip Englefied and crew chief Andrew Wright. From 1990 to 1999 they competed in the british Pro Modified Championship finishing as high as runner up in the championship. Since 2002 they have competed in the European Championship with their current race car.

Race Car Specifications

1938 Ford Coupe fibreglass repllica body manufactured by B A Racing. Chrome moly chassis fabricated by B A Racing. Engine supercharged Chrysler hemi built by b A Racing.

2300 BHP

0-60MPH 1 Second

Standing quarter mile 6.602 seconds at 216 MPH

2006 has been another successfull year for Motorsport Events MD, Ed Moore who has again won the national series for Formula Ford 1600 cars, the King of Kents FF1600 Cup. This highly prestigious championship is very keenly contested with rounds at Castle Combe, Oulton Park, Silverstone, Brands Hatch and other regional circuits. Moore has also won class A of both the Castle Combe and Motorsportvision Championships. Another successful season for the Formula Ford superstar! Moore would like to thank his sponsors for their help during the season

Glen McKeith has almost 30 years experience in 4x4 off road racing who's also a qualified instructor.

Over the last 30 years Glenn has competed in many classis and championships including probably one of the world's  toughest events The Dakar rally, with much success winning many titles.

In 2006 Glenn will look to build on his success in events accross the globe

Since it was established in 1980 the Formula SAE/Formula Student competition has become the largest educational motorsport event on the planet, and with over 2000 students representing 105 teams from 23 countries worldwide participating in the 2009 Silversont event alone, its popularity is still growing.

Run by the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, the Formula Student competition challenges university sutdents to design, build, develope, market and compete as a team with a single seater race car.

2009 has been SMU racing's best season so far coming 10th overal in the competion, 3rd in the UK and 1st in Wales.

Slingshot started out at the tail end of the 2004 season with a petrol engine producing a mere 800bhp and having competed in 2005 to finish 3rd in the EMTRC Karl and Jenny Swallow proceeded to run at Arnhem in Holland against the American Monster Jam Trucks. The desire to excel in the sport on a worldwide level led us to build from the ground up an all new Slingshot in 2006 changing the type of axles, engine, gearbox and more to allow us to compete on a more even field and increase reliability, power, strength and performance, Karl was asked to go out to America and drive the Airforce Afterburner Truck in a Race Event in Virginia Beach, a great driving experience and a great way to set up for the 2006 Events representing the UK in Arnhem, Holland and Paris, France.

Slingshot MT Racing Ltd is very much a family run affair the Team headed up by Karl and Jenny Swallow also involves Karl's brother-in-law Kevin Vaughan whose skills as a mechanic and fabricator are highly valued as is the help from Karl's sister Denise.

This year along with many performances at Santa Pod Raceway Slingshot will be Racing at Monster Jam Events in Gothenburg, Sweden and Cardiff, Wales.

Slingshot MT Racing Ltd are very pleased to have the support of Lucas Oi

Vehicle specs:

Engine: Merlin Race Engine, Supercharged and running 16 port fuel injection on Methanol built by Kenny Coleman

BHP: estimated 1800

Gearbox: Coan 2-speed Powerglide

Chassis: Patrick Enterprises

Suspension: RaceSource Nitrogen Shocks Stage 1 and Stage 2 with 26"

travel in front and 30" travel in rear

Body: Chevrolet Silverado 2004

Panther Racing UK

Conrad Stanley is the UK national championship driver of the Panther Racing UK Pontiac Firebird jointly owned with Trevor Graves. The car is powered by a big block chevy 547ci 896 hp 734 ft/lb torque coupled to a 2 speed gearbox, the car covers the quarter mile in 8.3 seconds at 163 mph this is 0-60 mph in 1.7 seconds. www.pantherracinguk.com

Anna Stanley is the reigning UK national champion in junior dragster, at the age of 15 she drives the car to speeds in excess of 80mph in 7.9 seconds, Anna was the first girl in the UK to take the this title, with her father Conrad Stanley also racing, they are a rare combination of a drag racing family.

www.pantherracinguk.com

UK National Super Gas Drag Racing Champions 2008 

Conrad Stanley and Trevor Graves 2000 Pontiac Firebird

Body: 2000 Pontiac Firebird fibreglass body

Chassis:Full tube CDS by Chassis Engineering, Florida

Suspension:Santhuff front struts, Koni double adjustable rear shocks and four-link

Wheels/tyres: Rear15x15 Weld wheels with 32x16x15 Mickey Thompson slicks, Front 15x4 Weld wheels and Mickey Thompson 24x4.5x15 Front Runners

Engine:547cubic inch Dart iron big-block Chevy built by Houston Engine, Dart aluminium heads, stainless valves, Single Holley Dominator carburettor, Borla exhaust, Griffin aluminium radiator,

896HP 734ft/lb torque

Transmission:Powerglide with SFI Dedenbear casing 1.76 first gear, Mark Williams propshaft

Axle:Ford 9-inch, crossbraced casing, 4.11 gears, Strange axles and centre section

Brakes:Wilwood calipers with 12-inch ventilated discs

Interior:Grant steering wheel with quick release, Glasstech dash, Auto Meter gauges (oil temperature, fuel pressure, water temp, Sports Comp rev counter, shift light)

Performance: 1/4 mile8.3 seconds at 165mph, 0-60mph in 2.1 seconds, 0-100mph in 5.4 seconds

‘Podzilla' is based on a Chevy K1500 truck with a 427 c.i. talldeck Chevy motor upped to 500 CC,(around 8.2 litres). The blown and injected motor produces some 1200bhp on methanol that propels the five ton behemoth to speeds of 65mph and 0 to 60mph is reached within six seconds. Those huge wheels and tyres measure 66 inches (165cm) diameter and are 43 inches (109cm) wide.  Full SFI safety regulations are adhered to throughout with a 2" CDS roll cage employed,

Robbie Gallier is a promising star for the future in motor racing, currently he is racing in the National Kart Racing Association at the age of 11 he has already notched up 12 podiums 4 of those being wins out of 16 races and was also the first ever Honda cadet driver to win the Celtic Championship in his first year.

Considering Robbie only started competing in May 2008 in which he finished 3rd on his first event at the Clay Pigeon Kart track he is progressing as a driver quicking than he can get his kart around the track and will surely be a name to look out for in the coming years.

Turner Motorsport are the latest drag racing team to carry the Lucas Oil logo, in the FIA European Top Methanol Championship. Rob Turner boasts an outstanding career in the Top Methanol class winning the British Champion 10 times since 1993 and is currently the 2008 champion.

Along with their great success in the British championship they were also crowned European champions in 2001 and have consitantly been amongst the top teams to date.

With the support of Lucas Oil Turner Motorsport are working towards regaining the European crown in the Top Methanol class for 2009.

NA Racing KTM is competing in the Maxxis British Motocross Championship and the British Masters Motocross Championship, as well as taking part in MMX British Championships. A huge amount of effort and passion has gone into building the Team over the past couple of years, and with all the effort the whole team has put in along with amazing support from numerous sponsor, launch of this new team has been a huge success.

n 2009 NA Racing KTM is continuing their cooperation with KTM, with factory support from KTM UK. Team is running the awesome KTM 450 SX-F and KTM 250 SX-F race bikes. The rider line-up for the year is stronger than ever, with Jamie Lewis and Jim Murro in MX1 class, Lewis King MX 2 and Ben Reed in MXY2 class.

Ben Stafford aged 13 is competing in the Proppa.com British Championship and also the Norasport Championship. Ben is currently using a CRF 150cc Honda in both championships and so far this season Ben has shown his ability in his first full season, narrowly missing out on 2nd place after consistantly gaining results throughout the year.

With another 2 years in this class it is surely a matter of time for Ben to win the British Championship.

expertly tuned by ECS Performance Tuning allowing this bike to hit speeds of 192 mph over a quarter mile in 7.56 seconds