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Photos: Jeffrey Wall
BikeWeekend in Västerås is one of Swedish motorbike dragracing's yearly highlights. It's the only major national event that sports a Vmax only class, and the Vmax is the only make/model with its own class. It's hosted at Johannisberg airfield outside Västerås and the track is 1/8 mile.
12 out of 14 registered Maxers turned up to race and we had two days of fun.
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Saturday morning. Rickard and Per-Arne
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Last years winner Kjell Nilsson
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Jörgen
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Maxer Jens Gran and his GSXR Funny Bike
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Saturday qualification runs. Anders Wallén was the quickest at 7,278 seconds and 161 km/h.
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Pelle, Gustav and Stefan
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Plenty of snowmobiles this year
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Sunday elimination runs.
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Maxes getting the attention
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Line-up
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Kjell, Gustav, Pelle and Anders
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Anders warming up
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Stefan v/s Gustav
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Daniel getting ready
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The moment of truth...
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The races were tight. Keeping a cool head is as important as having a strong engine
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Rickard, Thomas, Pelle, Jeffrey and Jörgen
waiting to race
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Stefan enjoying his win in the semifinals...
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...which obviously made him very happy
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Per-Arne Söderberg almost rode his barely broken in 2003 model Max to victory. Nice job being a beginner at both Vmaxes and dragracing. He came in second after our new national champion - Stefan Möllergren.
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| Charley Karling's
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Vmax final
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Per-Arne,
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Stefan
Möllergren - Swedish national champion at the Vmax Drags 2004 |