Over the weekend of the 15th and 16th of January Barry Sheavills and the fansfueler team were part of Santa Pod Raceway's stand at the Autosport International Show at the NEC, Birmingham. Also exhibiting with Santa Pod were our arch rivals Carter Motorsport with their show car, the Think Pink Racing competition bike of Roland and Sandra Chaplain and Martin Hill with Fireforce 2 which was wearing its new Fireforce 3 Santa Pod promotional body.

We were kept busy all weekend promoting fansfueler and drag racing in general, and meeting both current and potential sponsors who were also exhibiting at the show.

We always enjoy spending time with our friends from NGK and Wheelright/AEZ and we must thank everyone at NGK for the best coffee in the whole of the NEC! Barry was also keen to visit his friends at the Motorsport Industry Association and Motorsport Valley who were also exhibiting at the show. Barry was presented with Motorsport Valley's new brochure in which he was named as one of Britain's all time, motorsport heroes.

We also visited the Bahrain International Circuit stand where we discussed the amount of interest they had had to date in drag racing and their first FIA drag racing event in November.

It was good to see a couple of our members at the show. Both Guy Waltham and Phil Cottingham stopped by for a chat whilst at the NEC and we met quite a number of other drag racing fans over the weekend. It was also nice to be able to preach the gospel of drag racing to the unconverted, many of whom were at the show to see large plastic F1 cars hanging off a wall. Hopefully after being dipped in nitro they will have seen the light!

We will hopefully have pictures from the event added to our gallery in the next few days. Many thanks must once again go to the team at Santa Pod for all their help.