The FIA European Drag Racing Championship for Top Fuel dragsters will be contested at Santa Pod Raceway on a 1,000-foot course in 2012. The fuel Funny Car division will continue to run to 1320 feet.
 
This comes from Keith Bartlet, CEO of Trakbak Racing Ltd and FIA Championship promoter, via Eurodragster.com.

The FIA European Drag Racing Championship for Top Fuel dragsters will be contested at Santa Pod Raceway on a 1,000-foot course in 2012. The fuel Funny Car division will continue to run to 1320 feet.
 
This comes from Keith Bartlet, CEO of Trakbak Racing Ltd and FIA Championship promoter, via Eurodragster.com.

Bartlet revealed his plans recently during a meeting of track organisers and promoters of the FIA European Drag Racing Championship in Stockholm. The facility in Hockenheim will reportedly follow Santa Pod's lead.

"We were heading into a situation for 2012 where in the FIA European Top Fuel Dragster Championship we were going to have two tracks running 1000 feet, those being Tierp Arena (Sweden) and Alastaro (Finland), and then two tracks running the full quarter mile, Santa Pod Raceway (UK) and the Hockenheimring (Germany)," Bartlet told Eurodragster.com. "This is far too confusing for all the drag racing fans who follow the Championship plus, and more importantly, the television production and shows which are broadcast worldwide. It is not acceptable to the TV viewers at home and the sponsors involved in an FIA motorsports Championship to have a situation where the FIA European Drag Racing Championship is not consistent across all rounds.

"Another major factor for me in reaching this decision was the fact that most of the teams who race Top Fuel in Europe buy their engines and parts from the USA and all their tune-ups are based upon current and up to three-year-old settings from 1000-foot racing in the NHRA National Championship. This for me was a crucial factor in reaching this decision. I do not believe that the Top Fuel teams are saving any money by running 1000 feet against the full quarter mile, in fact the situation in the USA is that they are blowing their engines up just as much as they did over the full 1320 feet, because the competition is just as hard and the speeds are almost the same as for a full quarter mile. Also in my opinion it is not really a safety matter as engine explosions, fires and crashes can happen at any distance and once a car has reached half-track the speed is there anyway."