{"id":103570,"date":"2026-05-08T00:44:06","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T00:44:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/drag-racing\/uncategorized\/100k-beckons-europes-fastest-door-cars-to-santa-pods-doorslammers\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T00:44:06","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T00:44:06","slug":"100k-beckons-europes-fastest-door-cars-to-santa-pods-doorslammers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/drag-racing\/uncategorized\/100k-beckons-europes-fastest-door-cars-to-santa-pods-doorslammers\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00a3100K beckons Europe\u2019s fastest door cars to Santa Pod\u2019s DOORSLAMMERS"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u2018Doorslammer\u2019 is a drag racing term for a full-bodied car with functioning doors \u2013 in other words, your bog-standard saloon.<\/p>\n

Yet nothing is remotely bog-standard about the \u2018saloon cars\u2019 heading to Santa Pod Raceway from across Europe this month for the venue\u2019s annual big-money bonanza shootout,\u00a0THE DOORSLAMMERS \u2013 powered by FuelTech.\u00a0Yes, they all have roofs and doors, sprung chassis too, but that\u2019s where resemblance ends.<\/p>\n

A \u00a3100,000 prize pot beckons, \u2018powered by FuelTech\u2019, the Brazilian\/American manufacturer of high-performance engine management and motorsport electronics systems which makes its debut as supporting partner to the event. FuelTech also sponsors the Motorsport UK British Drag Racing Championship and the championship\u2019s 250mph, V8-powered Pro Modified cars will be prominent among the heavyweights in THE DOORSLAMMERS\u2019 premier VP Racing Pro Doorslammer division.<\/p>\n

Unlike regulated championships, however, THE DOORSLAMMERS is an outlaw event, a high-performance free-for-all. If racers want to pep up their motors, twist up their turbos, in pursuit of the big payout, they can. In another detour from rulebook standards, qualifying results do not determine pairings on an eliminations ladder. Instead, pairings are drawn at random for each round, piling on the instant knockout drama.<\/p>\n

Yet drag racing does not only revolve around thumping V8s. Europe\u2019s potent quarter-mile menu offers many different flavours. THE DOORSLAMMERS features seven other classes: Turbosmart Pro Street; True Street; Coated Race Bearings Front-Wheel Drive; Four-Cylinder; Tom Wrigley Performance Five\/Six-Cylinder; Jeff Bull Race Engines 7.60 Heads-Up; and Williams Bros Big Bracket.\u00a0 Plus, there\u2019s a selection of Scandinavian Top Doorslammers showcasing their own racing style over the eighth-mile.<\/p>\n

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Entries range from the Nordics to the Baltics, Poland to Portugal, and even out to Bulgaria. A wealth of multi-cylinder and FWD ingenuity and innovation exists in Eastern Europe, often overlooked in drag racing\u2019s conventional western scene, and THE DOORSLAMMERS is a beacon for racers eager to swap bumpy airfield runways for Santa Pod\u2019s pristine, championship-quality concrete.<\/p>\n

Rules governing the Turbosmart Pro Street and True Street classes sound unlikely in such company, but they demand proof of MOTs and road tax. Participating vehicles are indeed road-legal. Meanwhile the Jeff Bull Racing Engines 7.60 Heads-Up class is open to track cars racing on a 7.60-second index and the Williams Bros. Big Bracket is a catch-all for entrants dialling in between 6.99 and 11.99 seconds.<\/p>\n

THE DOORSLAMMERS Powered by FuelTech takes place from Friday 15th to Sunday 17th\u00a0May 2026 at Santa Pod Raceway, NN29 7XA, and shares the weekend with the Volkswagen festival VW Breakout.<\/p>\n

Tickets are bookable only online or by phone \u2013 visit\u00a0https:\/\/santapodtickets.com\/p\/thedoorslammers<\/a>\u00a0or telephone the Box Office at 01234 782828. Full event information can be found at https:\/\/santapod.co.uk\/events\/doorslammers\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\u2018Doorslammer\u2019 is a drag racing term for a full-bodied car with functioning doors \u2013 in other words, your bog-standard saloon. Yet nothing is remotely bog-standard about the \u2018saloon cars\u2019 heading to Santa Pod Raceway from across Europe this month for the venue\u2019s annual big-money bonanza shootout,\u00a0THE DOORSLAMMERS \u2013 powered by FuelTech.\u00a0Yes, they all have roofs […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103570\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}