The day of the flying flyers: 12th July 2011

Fast 5, the latest offering from the Fast and Furious franchise, was
launched at Santa Pod Raceway last Friday and Luke Bennett writes
that the Bennett Racing - Battery Energy Drag Racing Team had a
great time despite the UK weather:

Our latest sponsor Battery Energy Drink and BuyEnergy Drinks.co.uk were there and they had a great time too.
It was really good to meet up, we all did a lot of talking around the car and team and what's in store for the future.
Everyone was suitably impressed. We have of course sent on all of our PR so far to our other committed sponsors,
all of whom we couldn't race without, thanks guys! Also a personal thanks to our team members Alan Scott and
Joe Riley, hope you had a good day gents.

Another thank you to Santa Pod, namely Darren Prentice and Dave Warren, for being very accommodating and
allowing us on track for our photo shoot with Battery Energy. Very harsh weather but it made for some great shots with the water giving a nice reflection. Sorry about the Bennett Racing flyer stand taking off and covering the track with 2000+ flyers but I think we picked them all up! Apologies if we did miss any. Thank you also to photographer Lawrence Clift who took brilliant shots all day, some of which can be viewed on Facebook. There was an amazing line up of press there too and coverage pieces and links will be added to our Facebook page and web site as soon as they arrive.

Our 2003 carbon fibre Funny Car body is up for sale due to the economy and some of our sponsors feeling the heat a little. We always planned to win the NFAA Championship which we did in 2009 and then to move up to FIA Top Methanol Funny Car the following year with the current set-up, but to still keep the altered body etc and run almost as a four-car team as we can switch between bodies with ease. Because of various rule changes and proposed rule changes we have pretty much been priced out at the class at the moment so the decision was made to sell the body and bide our time. We want to concentrate on the altered for now, but who knows what's in store for the future.