ALAND ISLANDS, FINLAND –   Ida Zetterström and team RFMotorsport doubled up at Santa Pod Raceway, taking home the event win at the final FIA Top Fuel race of the year and securing the 2023 European Championship title with a 120-point lead over runner-up Susanne Callin. The event win was Zetterström’s fourth of the season, three of them being FIA events.

“We just doubled up in the Edelbrock Performance Top Fuel at Santa Pod Raceway by winning the European Finals with a 3.91 in the dark and taking home the European Championship title,” said Zetterström. “I am incredibly proud of my RFMotorsports team and the performance we have shown this year, losing only one round all year, earning numerous No. 1 qualifiers, running consistently, and taking home the European records for both speed and ET as well as the overall Championship. Thank you to all our partners for an incredible year and now we’re going celebrate this championship.”

Zetterström and her team were consistently strong and showed their pace straight from the start by setting two new European records at the first event of the season with a 3.77 second ET record and a new European speed record of 321.01 mph. The finals were delayed Sunday night after bad weather found its way to the track in the afternoon and pushed the last rounds of racing up by several hours. Zetterström and her team were able to maintain their focus and take another win and the championship.

HOCKENHEIM, GER – Ida Zetterström and team RF Motorsport takes home the win at the prestigious NitrOlympX event at Hockenheim ring, Germany. The event was the second to last event of the FIA European Championship and Ida extended her championship lead up to 100 points before Susanne Callin.

The final round of the NitrOlympX was a real nail biter with a tight side by side race against Jndia Erbacher with Ida’s 3.92 second pass to Jndia’s 3.93 second run, Ida being away first of the line and staying just in front the whole way. This was Ida’s first win at the Hockenheim ring and her third stop Fuel win of the season, having a win at Santa Pod Raceway at the FIA season opener back in May and a win at the non-points race at Mantorp Park in July. Ida made it to the semi-finals at Tierp Arena in July but the event was halted due to rain, so no winner was crowned. At the August event at Tierp Arena Ida saw her first and only loss so far this season when she fell short to reigning Champion Antti Horto in the semi-finals after losing traction before the 330ft.

With a steady grip of the Championship lead Ida and the RFMotorsport team will end the FIA Championships season with the final event at Santa Pod Raceway, September 7-10. This weekend Ida will be at the U.S Nationals in Indianapolis as a spectator before she flies back to the UK for the European Finals next week.

“I am excited to get to the U.S. Nationals but even more excited to race for the championship at Santa Pod Raceway,” said Zetterström. “Seeing the NHRA in action always gets me pumped up and motivated so this weekend it will be fun to be a spectator but when I get back to the UK my total focus will be on the FIA Championship.”

ALAND ISLANDS, FINLAND – Zetterström Announces Global Partnership with Edelbrock and KW Parts Today, European Top Fuel Record Holder Ida Zetterström announced a new global partnership between Edelbrock Group and KW Parts (Klintberg & Way Group) to support her efforts in winning the FIA Championship driving for RF Motorsport. Edelbrock Group helped Zetterström in her successful first FIA Top Fuel season in 2022, where the team became the first to clock a 3.7-second pass in Europe and picked up their first FIA event win together at Tierp Arena in Sweden.

For 2023, Edelbrock is expanding its commitment to become a primary partner on her dragster alongside new sponsor KW Parts. The collaboration brings together two powerhouse companies on the side of the RF Motorsport Top Fueler. The Edelbrock Group brands represent nearly 130 years of building the best-known performance parts for racers and enthusiasts. Meanwhile, KW Parts, operating in 37 European countries, is Europe´s leading distributor of OE and aftermarket spare parts and accessories for American cars from the 1900s to today.

Zetterström is excited by the prospects this partnership brings to the team.

“I saw an opportunity to bring together two great companies in KW Parts and Edelbrock in a way where we can all work together to bring business and racing forward; I see this being the start of something really outstanding,” she said.

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