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Swiss Funny Car Racer Takes
Drag Racing to Italy
By Dezsoe Krivan
Dezsoe Krivan won over the Italian crowd at MotorSport 2000 with smoky burnouts like this. Photo thanks to Power Pack Motorsports
We have put our footmarks onto the Fairground of Bologna.
The 11-day MotorShow
2000 in Bologna, Italy just ended on Sunday,
December 17. It was a great experience for us and for nearly one million
visitors. From December 7 through December 10, we performed twice a day
burnouts on the two straights of the round course arena. Yes… we have
proved that it's possible to drive a round course with a Funny Car!
The course was surrounded by huge grandstands, packed during our shows
with more than 50,000 yelling and applauding spectators. Friday was a very
special day because it was a holiday in Italy and the Ferrari F1 Team had
their show (Pit stops) just before us and luckily, they had all four tires
ready. At the end of the Ferrari show Luca Badoer, the test driver of
Ferrari, showed a burnout with the red F1-2000. They also do this in a
circle! But then came "The answer from Power-Pack" (original
translation of the comment in AutoSprint, one of the biggest Italian car
Magazines). Dezsoe performed a huge burnout that covered the spectators for
a while in white smoke. We think that broke a lot of red Italian
hearts.
After the shows, we maintained the car in the booth of the Italian
Drag Racing Association (IDRA). Also there, the
interest of the Italian spectators was very big, which was also worth a
couple television stations to film and interview us. RAI Uno Sport and Tele
Monte Carlo already have broadcasted 10 minutes each on Drag Racing Power
from the Bologna MotorShow
2000.
I hope that with our attendance in Italy, we have shown that there is
more than just round course racing. I'm sure in the near feature we will
have Drag Races also for the bigger classes in this very nice, friendly, and
Motorsport enthusiastic country. The people from IDRA
are doing their best to make it happen.
And once more, sorry to all the other great names in the Motorsport world
who gave their best at MotorShow
2000, like Luca Badoer, Carl Foggarty, Max Biaggi,
and all the other Car, Cart, and Bike pilots... But we made more smoke!
For pictures and Videos from MotorShow
2000 in Bologna, please visit our Photo
Gallery.
And Let's get Drag Racing in Italy!
Dezsoe Krivan
krivan@dragracing.ch
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