The Huxleys are another of Britain's bracket racing families, with father (Brian) and son (Lee) regularly going deep into eliminations in Super Street and Pro ET respectively. The Summernationals was no different with Huxley Snr winning Super Street and Huxley Jnr runner up in Pro ET.

Andy Frost's low eight second Vauxhall VX4/90, with a 461ci block boosted with nitrous, took his first event win of the year in the heads up Street Eliminator with an 8.429 being enough to cover Colin Lazenby's 8.502.

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The quickest Funny Bike outside of North America propelled Neil Midgley to another string of 6.7 second passes with a 6.737 best being enough for a new ET mark and a 6.764 was enough to defeat Dave Holland for the event title.