Chris Polidano, on the Kalanc Racing Team dragster, established a new European record at the Tierp Arena in Sweden last weekend when clocking 272mph on the speedometre during the second round of the 2012 Top Methanol FIA Championship. Polidano was the fastest pilot in his class. In the semi-finals, he eclipsed Manty Bugeja’s Mr Whippy who had a very good elapsed time of 5.297secs.

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