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PRI Hot Rods Bill Chelton Memorial SuperBangers Group A Hot Rods

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SuperBangers
A new number and formula for Riki Rawlins as he picked up a heat and final win in the SuperBangers on May 2, which means a new roof too. Nigel Carroll stayed just far enough ahead to defeat a surge from Vic Bilkey in the first heat, old Mag 7 teamster Brian Orriss dumped out Carl Maslen on the way to a win in the second before Rawlins hung tough in front of Nigel Hepburn and Vic Bilkey in the third heat before outpacing Carroll in the final, the big drivers held up early on in a race that saw 22 of the 32 cars start.

Group A Hot Rods
With his dominence in his first meeting back with the Group A Hot Rods, all eyes were on Dave Lamb at the May 2 meeting at Arena Essex. Steve Mills was first in the first heat, taking the spot after early front runner Chris Fuller died off and a mid race charge by Gary Rouse came to nothing when Darren Christie spun him off. Lamb came out in the second heat and promptly repeated his trick of the previous meeting, moving through the field at a cracking pace to get past Adrian Coomber in the closing stages, Matt Leadbetter following home when Coomber spun on th back straight. Mark Cook drove an excellent consolation, shutting out Pete Lowe and Coomber all the way to the line by just keeping his head and the racing line. However an early clash in the final between Lamb and Rouse meant that there would be no repeat of the previous meeting. Vic Hope took the lead well but was unable to hold out Leadbetter in the last few laps and had to settle for second. The hot weather seemed to have its effect on the cars which were dropping out fast, only nine cars finishing the day intact after the helter-skelter which was won by Barry Miles ahead of Gary Rouse, pushed all the way home by Gary Finch.

PRI Hot Rods
Seventeen cars in a domestic Hot Rod meeting is the best so far for Arena Essex, though this meeting on May 2 also suffered from the heat and from a few accidents, not least the first race where Dave Nail failed to start the race, then a snaked fourth corner by Gary Lyons sent Paul Simmons smashing into the wall for a second red. Julian Scott made it home first with the remaining field following except Andy Brown who had flicked out on the home straight somewhat steamily. As the pleasantries of the trophy ceremony were going on, it was suddenly obvious that the Brown car was burning! Rick Fray ad also had a bad warm up, but got well into the Bill Chelton Memorial Final, taking the outside line to the front, Andrew Armiger following hard. Fray made it all the way home, but Armiger blew up three laps shy, only five cars getting home. Simon Smith had been one of the few to put up a consistent run through the day and was rewarded when he passed inside Adrian Genery early on in the handicap race never to be passed, though Dave Hitchen and Fray pushed him hard all the way home.

Results

1  SuperBangers 1       82 Nigel Carroll   /111/58/68/173/275/313/391
2  Group A 1            23 Steve Mills     /99/90/148/2/108/5/57
3  Group A 2            82 Dave Lamb       /174/88/94/65/83/175/64
4  Hot Rods w/u         77 Julian Scott    /10/20/3/119/5/103/44
5  SuperBangers 2      313 Brian Orriss    /42/238/36/348/44/391/38
6  Group A Cons         12 Mark Cook       /77/131/63/100/168/116/122
7  Hot Rods FINAL       21 Rick Fray       /3/20/8/10 NOCR
8  SuperBangers 3       58 Riki Rawlins    /68/111/36/87/82/52/72
9  Group A FINAL       174 Matt Leadbetter /100/99/65/82/94/63/108
10 Hot Rods h/s         10 Simon Smith     /21/3/20/8/103/37/5
11 Group A h/s          77 Barry Miles     /63/65/108/90/100/174/148
12 SuperBangers FINAL   58 Riki Rawlins    /82/313/36/42/52/68/348