In a sport usually decided by fractions, Andy Carter has achieved something astounding in this year's FIA Top Fuel Dragster European championship. Although no stranger to the winner's circle, Carter has wrapped up his fourth points title in supreme fashion with one event to go on the season's schedule in the Lucas Oil backed flyer. Victory at the Nitrolymp'x at the Hockenheimring, Germany, gave the British driver an unassailable lead that neither Finland's Risto Poutiainen or Denmark's Stig Neergaard, the current number two and three in the points respectively, have a chance of overhauling at the European Finals at Santa Pod Raceway next month.

"It's sunk in this morning" commented Carter on the Monday after the race "I'm the FIA European Top Fuel Champion for a 4th time, it really is a great feeling! Although sometimes it seems like it's not me, its like I'm looking in on someone else. I would like to say thanks to Lucas Oil, Karsten Andersen and Per Andersen, all the team and all my associate sponsors."

Carter came into the season as the defending FIA champion, but was hungry as ever to add to those won in 2001, 2004 and 2008. In comparison to these three titles, all won by the slenderest of margins with the points chase going down to wire in the final race of the year, the fourth is the culmination of the most dominant performance seen in European Top Fuel competition since the inception of the FIA championship in 1996, with a record setting 11 round win lights already secured this season. The Anglo-Swedish-Danish Lucas Oil team will now look to go through the season undefeated, something never previously achieved in FIA Top Fuel competition, having won at Santa Pod Raceway (England), Alastaro (Finland) and been a frustrated finalist at the rained out meeting at Mantorp Park (Sweden).

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