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All Metro & Fiesta Bangers 1300 Stock Cars BriSCA F2 Stock Cars Jock Lloyd Trophy

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Past winners of Jock Lloyd Trophy

1300 Stock Cars
Another three race support day for the 1300 Stock Cars on August 20 and a good performance in the warm up as Darren Cardy drove his smart new green Corsa to victory ahead of Derry Monk, a good attempt by fellow ex-Ministox pilot Michael Coventry to keep second spot coming to nothing as Monk first took him easily then the Coventry-mobile decided to give it up. Steve Davies had problems of his own as the main event was stalled at the start as he sat on the grid with no power. Again, Coventry tried to hold the race and this time made good progress at the front until he was caught by Andy Brown close to half way and from there dropped away, Brown pulling enough out to keep Monk down in second while an uncharacteristic run by Spike Ellis kept Cardy down to fourth. Cardy then repeated his warm up performance to win te helter-skelter, Coventry this time keeping it together for second while Simon Welton got his best finish of the day to make a trio of ex-Ministox folk in the first three.

National Bangers
A growing trend in the Bangers of recent years is the introduction of small car events, and who are Promotasport to buck a trend when last year they staged a Metro meeting? This year, however, they decided to pad the Metros out with Fiestas and the resulting meeting had to be seen to be believed! The tool of the day proved to be the XR2, though the high end Metros displayed honourably, especially the Dale "Daktari" Atkins motor which was high enough in the results for notice among the winning Fiestas. It was Billy King that started things off as a mistake midway by Craig Hewitt meant that he could only clasp second spot, while Del Waterman and John Harris proved that wrecking is not the sole preserve of the larger motors. The meeting saw a large number of visitors and temporary signings, Spencer Green and Nathan Crisp being a couple of these that got well into the spirit of the proceedings by nutting each other early in this first race! There were thirty-one cars in that heat, there were forty-one in the second, Grieg Cheeseman reclaiming his title of "Cheese Roll" last used in his 1300 Stock Car days as he stuck a two pointer in at the end of the race by the pit gate. Waz Barber seemed a cert for the win but Sonny Sherwood took over on the last lap when Barber piled into the car park. Another win for Mushy, and another Fiesta win, Terry Driver and Jason Jackson following. Neil Partridge would have also got a good finish but sacrificed his position for hits on Dave Edwards and Steve Macklin. The final was an allcomers' event and, as some predicted, it was even bigger with fifty-seven survivors hitting the track and each other, a pile up contributing to the mayhem at the start, Hewitt given Nick Harding the bumps early on while Lee Bassham, another temp for the day, was hustled by Steve Wilks and most of the cars that followed! Jamie Wilders received Boxer Jack nose first while King and Daktari were to be taken by Lee Caunter, but Atkins would emerge in the lead ahead of Sherwood by half way. Driver was putting his snoot into plenty including Darren Nash, though his best hit would be the one he put up Harding into King, before Richard Day finished him with a monster t-bone on the home straight. Sherwood eventually took the lead in a messy double spin, slicing Atkins out then putting himself round, though Mush was the quicker away and though Andrew Davies would eventually hit him with a view to unlapping himself, Sherwood would finish with heat and final. He wasn't yet finished, though. Sherwood also continued to win the more sedate thirty-six car Rawlins qualifier while Harding supplied the first Metro axle removal of the day, something the viewing public had expected more of, Partridge supplied more grief including a massive head on for Terry Driver Snr., and Edwards seemed to be hit by almost everyone! Another temporary, Danny McCormack, would eventually deny the Mush of four trophies in one meeting, a feat that few have even managed, by sticking one on the dying Sherwood Fiesta, this after Bradley Hampton and John Drummond had played their own cars out along with Edwards, Atkins and Davies.

1  BriSCA F2 1     269 Stuart Chalkley /667/951/167/75/657/103/77/121/302
2  Banger 1         49 Billy King      /345/23/84/33/605/321/13
3  1300 Stx wu     718 Darren Cardy    /643/658/600/777/671/666/668
4  BriSCA F2 2     667 Tim Farrell     /469/951/167/657/121/103/178/772/676
5  Banger 2        348 Sonny Sherwood  /261/331/203/42/560/72/515
6  1300 Stx Main   671 Andy Brown      /643/658/718/606/600/666/631
7  BriSCA F2 FINAL 167 Bill Batten     /667/103/469/121/657/951/628/302/269
8  Banger FINAL    348 Sonny Sherwood  /98/47/13/19/341/72/100
9  1300 Stx hs     718 Darren Cardy    /701/600/631/643/658/777/606
10 BriSCA F2 GNq   469 Ian Chalkley    /628/667/167/657/772/951/591/269/351
11 Bangers R2Kq    348 Sonny Sherwood  /72/98 LCR=621 Danny McCormack