Arena Essex 00/17

Meeting 00/17, Sunday, 11th June 2000

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Plastengrave Non-Ford Bangers
Ladies Banger Championship Qualifying round 3
Group A Hot Rods

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Group A Hot Rods
Jason Griffiths started the meeting for the Group A Hot Rods at Arena Essex on June 11 with a flag to flag victory, easily away from the second place scrap between Vic Hope and Chris Fuller, Hope winning out on that one. Heat two was finished early after a track blockage with a win for Trevor Ledwith while Wayne Mansell managed to grab the consolation after being involved in a collision early on that caused the race to be restarted. The final was very involved with some sideways motion on turn four after some hairy crashes from the Bangers. Griffiths led early on while Andy Beverton made good progress from fourth, following Nichola Bearman past Wes Graves before passing her then snatching the inside line to take the lead, not to be caught. Discovery of the meeting however had to be Andy Sturt who made good progress from the back to get to second spot in the final, then he went on to grab the win in the helter-skelter that followed, outpacing veteran Group A Darren Christie who hung on to second spot, just holding off Mark Browne.

Ladies Bangers
The third Ladies Banger round at Arena Essex on June 11 went to Ashlie Clift in a win that saw her take the lead early on only to see the successive leaders including T J Stern fall to various fates, Ashlie taking back the lead late on and hold that place to the end, Sharon Worthington finishing second from Stern.

Plastengrave Bangers
The Plastengrave Non-Ford Banger Championship came around again at Arena Essex on June 11 with the return of a familiar face on the winners' lap of honour in heat one as former title holder Dale Street, a rare racer nowadays, showed that he could still coax a car home even after hitting wreckage close to home which could so easily have cost him the race. He was, however, upstaged somewhat by a 1959 Standard Pennant which, at the hands of Paul Jones, took on allcomers around the pit bend after vaulting a sleeper, leaving sizeable dents in Mark Christmas, Steve Wilks and Stuart Letton before finally bailing out with honours! It was the Christmas car that Street hit inside the final lap, giving Dave Robinson the incentive, if not the chance, to close and pass the stricken leader before the chequered flag. Heat two went the way of a flag to flag victory for Paul Hawkes. Starting on the front as is his wont, he jetted away, leaving the rest of the field to squabble over the other places, though Curtis Major did get a chunk of him on the way. Sonny Sherwood added to his lead position in the Drivers Championship in the third heat, nudging Chris Hussey out of the way three laps from home with Stuart Ruff in tow, Hussey even more unlucky to lose third to Kev Harland on the back straight of the last lap, Harland driving easily the smallest car of the day! While the consolation was won by Andy Crawford, the race was all about Elliot Dobson who provoked the early pile up, then turned on Dave Edwards and Ken Merton before engaging in a bloody battle with Clinton Scorah, each bashing the other to a standstill on the pit bend. The final saw Ruff get one back on Sherwood as he reversed the heat three result, winning by a wide margin while Sherwood, starting further back, had to battle with Craig Polley and Paul Eve to get his eventual second spot. Hawkes was taken out courtesy of a head on from Mark Bunting while Street didn't make a mark though another former title holder, Mark Newman, did hold second for a while until taken out by Crawford. Tony McDonald took the winners and last car running awards together in the Rawlins qualifier, first jetting home as previous leader Mark Day took a wrong turn in the trash, then freed Days' wheels up in the DD ending only to see Day and John Harris crash and stall together, leaving McDonald running alone.

Results

1  Ladies Q/r    260 Ashlie Clift    /327/300/32/266/312/399/339/119/261/299/580
2  Bangers 1     590 Dale Street     /275/462/401/9/546/164/94/147/254 NOCR
3  Group A 1     134 Jason Griffiths /9/190/174/117/163/83/12
4  Group A 2      33 Trevor Ledwith  /155/84/82/73/68/59/48
5  Bangers 2     415 Paul Hawkes     /467/520/250/189/336/418/7/23/42 NOCR
6  Bangers 3     348 Sonny Sherwood  /260/396/374/192/59/84/216/32/339/163/149
7  Group A Cons  102 Wayne Mansell   /119/176/38/99/67/86/93
8  Bangers Cons  353 Andy Crawford   /160/27/331/797/428/312/134/107 NOCR
9  Group A Final 176 Andy Beverton   /68/155/38/33/73/82/119
10 Bangers Final 260 Stuart Ruff     /348/192/84/331/94/27/42
11 Group A h/s    68 Andy Sturt (Si) /84/67/82/48/33/102/176
12 Bangers R2KQ   27 Tony McDonald   /314/312 LCR=27

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