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PRI Banger Team Final Eliminator 1300 Saloon Stock Car British Championship Final Lightning Rods

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PRI Banger Teams
With the teams now pared down to the final eight, the 1999 Eliminator started at Arena Essex on August 1 with a three car per team opener. Things looked promising for the Midnight Runners, the last team into the eight, as Richard Day sped away early, but Day would eventually lose his bearings after Russ McAngus of the Squad led the attack for the yellow cars, outpacing even his own teammates Brian McGuiness and newlywed Kevin Wilsher, though all three managed points toward the early Squad lead, the other eight teams having much of a muddle of the rest of the points. Things heated up in the second round as something of a battle started between the Runners and previous title contenders, The Nads, which culminated in a stoppage as John Drummond and Paul Jones sandwiched Jason Jackson on the home straight, followed by a monster jack off the shale for Drummond from non-Ford specialist Mark Newman, all using the armco for bracing. Paul Stern was also in trouble on the fence at the other end, so out came the reds. Mark Want led away for the Dunno team but was dumped four laps out by eventual winner Sean Collin who was having a busy day of it, also racing 1300 Saloons that day. The largest haul of points for that heat, however, went the way of the Squad with McGuiness, Frankie Holmes and McAngus running in second to fourth, while John Harding in fifth added to Collin's points started to lift the Creams ahead of the rest. The Squad eased off in the third heat as Collin won again ahead of Team Dunno's Jay Wilders in a mixed race with not much to note in it apart from a hard fencing for Paul Eve by Dave Greenstreet. The final race might have made a difference had it not been for the newest Squad member, Stuart Adcock, leading Wilsher and McGuiness home for a Squad whitewash, Frankie in fifth only making it worse with only the Creams, Canvey Cowboys and a solitary Dunno, namely Phil Hudson, grabbing anything at all.

Thus it was decided. The 1999 Team Championship Final would be yet another Squad vs. Cream showdown. All that was left was the Rawlins 2000 qualifier for which only Frankie came up for the Squad, and was promptly finished off by John Harris on the back straight, team hostilities finishing quickly. At that point, Mark Mahoney suddenly came in for several shots including a dooring from Neil Freeman, a head on from Dan Reid, finally finished off with a vicious sandwich attack by Bernie Reed and Wilders that bagged the Mahoney car and brought the reds out again. No one was backing off after the reds either as John Harding fired Terry Watkinson into the fence then met his end stopping Allan Trickett while Roger Trickett was stopped by the winner, Andy Burrough, though he was unable to survive the DD section. Trickett R was jacked out of contention by Phil Stevens while Harding tried Stuart Wilson before sniffing Trickett A's diff, leaving the final cat and mouse session to Wilson and Stevens which looked promising for Stevens as he picked Wilson up and wiped the armco down, but a final nut from Wilson left Stevens stranded, Wilson taking the hard route to the Rawlins Final.

1300 Saloon Stock Cars
With the newly inaugurated British Championship on the line for the 1300 Saloons, the August 1 Arena Essex meeting was well attended though it was quite obvious where the title woud end up as the better prepared Spedeworth cars dominated the day, though a few PRI drivers managed to make inroads into the results early on, including Sean Collin who, not satisfied with a double win for the Cream Team in the Banger Team Eliminator running in the same meeting, picked up second place in the first heat of the day behind Sam Holland. Collin had been closing on Holland during the last few laps but not quickly enough to better his trophy haul for the day. The second heat was somewhat rougher with Richard Austin testing the armco, becoming a cause for concern which brought the reds out. Dean Osborne had been leading to that point and rightly took his pole spot on the order restart, though his restart looked a little suspect trackside. He managed to hang on to the end despite the rapidly approaching Mark Smith, Nigel Walker and Derry Monk cars, each flinging cars aside to catch up. It was Smith who took the third heat over Steve Jackson while Elliott Wainwright stirred the infield dirt in a clash with Gordon Coull and Monk charged into Joe Mancini, though Mancini survived to take fourth. That set the tone for the Championship itself, which put Smith on pole though outside pole Darren Goudy made some early running before fading a little, finishing back in fourth. Holland finished her day with Matt Baldwin and Steve Jackson in her side, while Mark Bloss made a good early run, double spinning David Perry and Paul Brand out before colliding with John McGirr who was not having a good day himself. Smith took the title ahead of Walker and Osborne as PRI scored a duck in the British Championship final.

Lightning Rods
Just three races for the Lightning Rods in the August 1 Arena Essex meeting which started with a few frayed tempers, a loose spoiler for Darren Ahern being the start of a bad day for him. Rob Carr knws all about damage, but this time he had no problems hitting the outside line to grab the first heat win from Richard Spavins. Steve Pitcher made up for his excessive contact black in the first heat with a masterful last lap win in the second heat, stopped midway as the dying Paul Carle car stopped on the racing line at the exit to turn two, Bryan Whiteman the unlucky person that was unable to avoid the jacking that followed. Spavins took the main event flag to flag as more than one car found things awkward on turn one including Pitcher who collected Whiteman in the mess.

Results

1  Banger Team 1   21 Russ McAngus    /266/418/14/101/96/61/429
2  1300 Stx A/B    10 Sam Holland     /779/19/256/476/666/799/661
3  Banger Team 2  257 Sean Collin     /14/455/21/160/207/37/146
4  LRods 1        104 Rob Carr        /351/199/291/167/156/268/245
5  1300 Stx A/C   243 Dean Osborne    /416/472/643/501/510/666/371
6  Banger Team 3  257 Sean Collin     /42/301/418/21/455/391/41
7  LRods 2        295 Steve Pitcher   /351/199/104/170/203/290/49
8  1300 Stx B/C   416 Mark Smith      /376/256/19/661/779/501/426
9  Banger Team 4  448 Stuart Adcock   /96/14/101/455/429/37/53
10 LRods Final    351 Richard Spavins /49/203/104/199/156/216/268
11 1300 Stx BCF   416 Mark Smith      /472/243/256/71/501/19/510
12 Bangers R2000q 429 Andy Burrough   /7/53 LCR=7 Stuart Wilson
(Note that event 12 is a solo event, not counted in team eliminator)

PRI Banger Team Points
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| Team             | H1 | H2 | H3 | H4 | Total |
+------------------+----+----+----+----+-------+
| Suicide Squad    | 16 | 18 |  7 | 25 | 66    |
| Cream Team       |  7 | 12 | 13 |  4 | 36    |
| Team Dunno       |  2 |  2 |  8 |  2 | 14    |
| Ant Hill Mob     |  7 |    |  6 |    | 13    |
| Canvey Cowboys   |  4 |    |    |  5 |  9    |
| The Elite        |    |  4 |    |    |  4    |
| The Nads         |    |    |  2 |    |  2    |
| Midnight Runners |    |    |    |    |  0    |
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Points checked by Rob Porter and Chris Johnson