Jndia Erbacher: And goodbye until 2021 🎥
NO DRAGSTER RACING Due to the cancellation of several drag racing events, the automobile world federation FIA has canceled the European Championship 2020. As a result, there is practically no more starting opportunity for Jndia Erbacher either. In the fall of 2019, the regional television brought a TV report about the change of domicile of Fat Attack from Arlesheim to Dornach. At the time, no one suspected that such a long [...]
In the fall of 2019, regional television ran a TV report about Fat Attack's change of domicile from Arlesheim to Dornach. At that time, no one suspected that such a long break from racing would come.
As of 2019, Jndia Erbacher is the fastest female racer in Europe in terms of top speed (513.31 km/h), and the second fastest over the usual distance of 1000 feet.
The woman from Basel-Landschaft has also been on the podium of the top class Top Fuel several times. But this year, her nitromethanol rocket with more than 10,000 hp remains silent.
Too high costs without FIA status
Because three out of five dragster events have been cancelled so far, including the annual season highlight in Hockenheim, there will be no FIA European Championship in 2020. This means that there is no longer a suitable starting opportunity for Jndia Erbacher, who is aiming for her first race win and the European Championship podium.
Jndia Erbacher: "What do you want to do? It could be that England announces another fun race towards the end of the season, but then we would only add to it. If there's no prize money and travel subsidies like for European Championship races, the financial outlay and the possible return no longer balance each other out."
Necessary vehicle conversion
At least the cancellations don't put her and her own team Jndia Erbacher Racing in a time crunch. From 2020, chassis reinforcements will be mandatory in the area from the front to the feet.
In order to get this right and to be able to start in the USA in the foreseeable future, the woman from Basel wants to have this done under the direction of her American crew chief. The only thing is that he won't come to Switzerland especially for this reason without racing assignments, quite apart from the travel conditions.
Long-distance destination USA
The ambitious daughter of the six-time FIA European champion has no choice but to wait and see. And also to use her time to cultivate and search for sponsors.
Jndia Erbacher: "So he then also knows the newly built car exactly. I would have liked to drive somewhere else. Now we'll just use the time until 2021 for clean preparation and hope that the situation will calm down by then. The sponsors are skeptical anyway as to whether we can offer them anything at all this year. We'd like to do that next year, preferably with our first races in the USA. Because in Europe it's getting more and more difficult for us from the Top Fuel class."
Midland, which was an Erbacher sponsor until 2019, made a nice short film about the fascination of Top Fuel Racing with Jndia Erbacher.
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