End of 2010 Season Report
Well here we are at the end of a very busy season. With more runs under our belt due to the lack of other jet powered vehicles being available and the weather being mostly in our favour, it’s now time for a well earned rest!!!
The year has highlighted a few problems with the car in trying to maintain consistency and reliability with very short turn round times with runs and the car running virtually every weekend. The most frustrating problem with the car has been trying to get the new tailpipe design to our satisfaction and we ended the season without conclusive results. The need for new parts became a necessity mid season as the car was progressively running slower resulting in a spell of 6 second passes. Our biggest problem was trying to fit the parts and test before events without comprising the scheduled runs.
We have learned a lot about parts that don’t work and very little about parts that do work!! Hopefully we can resolve this ongoing problem over the winter period when we are able to test the car. However, the ‘quiet’ period seems to be getting shorter with our first appearance in 2011 at the Autosport Show at the NEC Birmingham in January and our first run on the 1/4 mile in February at the Stunt Fest at Santa Pod Raceway. (See Scheduled Events for our appearances in 2011)
The new project which we had hoped would be unveiled at the end of 2010, has been delayed until early 2011 for the start of the new season. Stayed tuned to find out more!!!
The re-launch of the FireForce website in 2010 has proven to be a huge success and our thanks and appreciation go to Nigel Holland for all his hard work and tolerance with us!!! (We know we’re sometimes hard work)
2010 also saw new merchandise launched with the FireForce poster and stickers which have proved popular, both on sale at race events and through our website. Again our thanks to Chris at Rowtype for designing the poster and stickers and putting up with our constant emails and indecisiveness!!
This is an ongoing project with new merchandise in the pipeline with a new Kid’s line for Christmas (finger’s crossed) and Adult’s range in 2011.
Our calendar already looks pretty full for 2011 and we hope to see all the familiar faces (and hopefully some new ones) at the FireForce trailer.
Lastly, we’d like to thank all our supporters and fans who have shown their enthusiasm towards our small crew. You make it all worthwhile!!!
Special thanks to all the people who have been kind enough to allow us to use their photos on this website. It’s great to see so many wonderful photographs!!
For all of our fans who have joined the ‘FireForce Jet Funny Cars’ facebook group page, you make us feel popular!!!
Hope each and every one of you have a wonderful Christmas and a great New Year!!!!
See you all in 2011
Martin, Rich and Horace