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BriSCA F2 Stock Cars
No mean turnout for the first Arena Essex appearance of the new season of the BriSCA F2 Stock Cars, March 26. Stuart Chalkley held off well from Roy Perry in the first race, though the meeting itself really belonged to Mick Sworder who ran away with the second heat, only Chris Roots able to pursue, then the final, twice stopped with problems for the first two from the first heat including a rollover for Chalkley, Sworder leading Carl Issitt home as Roots spun out on the pit bend four laps from home. Roots made up for it in the Grand National Qualifier, though he left it until the last possible moment to get past Andy Maynard who put up a gutsy run from the half way point, holding Roots back despite some heavy knocks until the last corner, while Sworder managed to get to fourth from his one lap handicap.

National Bangers
With the restoration of the "white top" opening heat at Arena Essex, it was unknown as to how many cars would actually turn up to take on the field for the three qualifying spots for the Rising Stars final on offer, but the meeting on March 26 seemed to gather in enough cars to merit shifting the heat up to supplant the stock car race scheduled to start the meeting. Though Paul Hawkes sped away off the front early on, by the time the race was stopped after one too many wrecks in the turn four pile up brought the first aid crews on, it was Chris Hussey that was declared the winner, his first trophy ever. However the second race was packed out with star graders, the biggest move courtesy of Paul Whiteman off the start when he piled Waz Barber in from four cars back, with attention also focused on Phil Hudson who made an appearance in this meeting. Lee West continued his successful run of wins with a trophy here ahead of Stuart Wilson. The consolation, added in to make a qualifiers only final for the day rather than the originally planned allcomer affair, saw plenty of lead cars eventually falling before Michael Smith was spun out by the eventual winner, Mark Ruskin with Balders motoring up in third spot, dispensing with Whiteman and Brian Taylor as he came across the line. However it was double time again as West wiped out Roy Laybourn then outlasted Hudson who spun himself out to seventh and final finisher, allowing Shane Davies to grab second spot. Ruskin made up for it by sticking in one of the biggest hits of the day when he took both Mark Chilvers and John Harding into Dean Kingsworth and Jason Jackson before getting a straight pass black flag in the Rawlins Spinner's Special. Ruskin also tried to stop Sonny Sherwood but failed as Sherwood picked up the win ahead of Andy Burrough and Richie Ahern, though Ruskin did get into the Rawlins final courtesy of a last car award.

1  Banger R/Sq     374 Chris Hussey      /250/529/415/4/336/560/149/247/144/223/57
2  Ministox 1      549 Simon Smith       /66/50/524/515/20/272/558/564/527
3  BriSCA F2 1     269 Stuart Chalkley   /15/134/461/422/677/772/154/591/103
4  Bangers           6 Lee West          /7/290/158/331/217/348/183/597/418/63/160
5  Ministox 2       50 Ryan Richards     /327/350/90/272/527/22/41/64/599*
6  BriSCA F2 2     152 Mick Sworder      /677/134/103/772/15/422/269/722/461
7  Bangers Cons     32 Mark Ruskin       /229/37/316/47/110/10/401/181/286/227/568
8  Ministox 3       90 Joe Bullen        /64/350/66/599/327/515/518/598/9
9  BriSCA F2 Final 152 Mick Sworder      /103/461/134/77/15/H44/469/422/553
10 Bangers Final     6 Lee West          /158/316/110/47/529/37 NOCR
11 Ministox Final  350 Michael Sanderson /515/66/327/50/380/558/518/16/41
12 BriSCA F2 GNq   677 Chris Roots       /134/103/152/422/461/77/15/H44/591
13 Bangers R2Kq SS 348 Sonny Sherwood    /29/99 LCR=32 Mark Ruskin