F-16 Fighting Falcon News

May 22, 2008 (by Asif Shamim) - Christian Bakkerud a Danish GP2 driver has received an invite by the Royal Danish Air Force (RDAF) to drag race his car against one of there F-16s at the Flyvestation Karup Air Show on 8 June.
The race will be set up to run down a course on the main runway at Karup using a track set out at 1001 meters in length.

By excepting the invite Bakkerud will become the first GP2 racer in the sports history to race an F-16.

"It's like all of my Christmases has come at once! This Air Show is an enormous event in Denmark and I'm over the moon to have been asked to take part in the race against the F-16 Fighter jet plane. Since this is the first time it's ever been done, both from a GP2 aspect but also for the Danish Air Force, all the guys involved have worked hard to make sure all calculations and details are perfect so that everything runs smoothly on the day. I think it's every young guy's dream to get up close with aeroplanes of this calibre and my dream is certainly coming true and this is an event I am counting down the days to!"