Arena Essex - ae0216

Arena Essex Raceway - Meeting 02/16 Monday, June 3, 2002

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PRI Banger Teams Championship Round 3
SuperBangers
1300 Stock Cars*

* Added to program late. Originally scheduled for RDC Dover

In Brief

It could be said that this season's Banger Teams qualifiers have followed a pattern, but that would be less than fair to the teams and the action they provided. Certainly praise should be given to all 18 teams as not one of them leaves this year with zero points, and even the race for the top places was tight, the Midnight Runners being left in second spot following the resurgeance of the Cream Team, who bided their time in the heats and quietly slipped all their drivers through to allow them to destroy all opposition in the final to end the day on a staggering 78 points, getting four of the top five places in the final, led home by Tony Wade. However, ten teams were required to get in, and this year ten teams made their stand.

The Cream Team won overall on 144 points with last years' winners, the Midnight Runners, getting second spot with 97 points. The Canvey Cowboys had dominated all three meetings at the outset, and came home overall in third place with 83 points. Mushy's Team, however, failed to keep the Condoms out, so with fourth place and 49 points for the safety experts, I would venture that the Condoms have won this battle, at least for now. The Orpington Silent Heroes make it in again as fifth place team just one point behind, then another three points seperate them from sixth spot Gladiators, then it's a drop to 33 points as the Allsorts get in on the first time of asking. Bad Company can thank Billy Lee for his major contribution to the points as they tie with the new team Iz-It for eighth on 31 points, then the Southend Menace grace the last spot with 24 points. The rest of the teams and the losing eight from the Eliminator get a chance at the third place title later in the year.

Terry Bearman repeated himself in the SuperBangers that day, winning the first race, chasing Geoff Hughes home in the final for second then getting fifth in the last race. Hughes did his points level no harm in the final, staying clear in front despite all that Bearman could do in the final, but he was unable to remove Barry Smith from the front of the Festival Qualifier, especially with Dave Kingsmill firmly attached to his tail.

The 1300 Stocks were an unexpected bonus on the day, and Andrew Palmer took full advantage on the day after his spectacular performance during the previous meeting to whitewash the meeting, getting heat, final and Festival Qualifier wins, despite the best efforts of Darren Cardy, Darren Pratt and Neil Chapman to catch him.

Results

1. Banger Teams 1

308 Mick Bradbury (CC)

33(CR)

53(CR)

108(IZ)

57(MR)

345(SM)

23(SK)

353(SH)

164(SH)

511(CC)

488(NP)

NOCR

2. SuperBangers

91 Terry Bearman

350

3. 1300 Stock Cars

674 Andrew Palmer

631

708

718

668

698

671

775

4. Banger Teams 2

442 Malcolm Fuller (CC)

6(MR)

462(SM)

30(CR)

425(SH)

162(DU)

28(VD)

277(BC)

398(IZ)

405(SH)

372(AS)

490(SM)

5. Banger Teams 3

94 Howard Martin (GL)

102(CC)

160(CR)

2(BC)

193(CR)

287(AS)

183(MR)

301(AH)

331(MR)

321(GL)

84(VD)

348(MT)

6. 1300 Stock Cars Final

674 Andrew Palmer

708

718

671

644

697

631

775

7. SuperBangers Final

45 Geoff Hughes

294

374

8. Banger Teams Consolation

190 Dan Weller (SH)

401(MR)

332(GL)

207(MR)

47(KC)

220(KC)

177(BC)

467(GL)

9. 1300 Stock Cars FoSq

674 Andrew Palmer

718

671

708

644

698

631

775

10. Banger Teams Final

33 Tony Wade (CR)

30(CR)

160(CR)

220(KC)

53(CR)

372(AS)

331(MR)

287(AS)

11. SuperBangers FoSq

294 Barry Smith

397

374

12. Bangers R2Kq

47 Andrew Davies

NOCR

- Last car running

30 Tommy McGurk

Team chart after three rounds (Subtotals and totals in brackets)

Team	Rds 1 & 2	Heat 1	Heat 2	Heat 3	Consolation	Final	Overall
Cream Team (CR)	66	13 (13)	5 (18)	10 (28)	0 (28)	50 (78) 1st	144 1st
Midnight Runners (MR)	71	4 ( 4)	7 (11)	3 (14)	8 (22)	4 (26) 2nd	97 2nd
Canvey Cowboys (CC)	59	9 ( 9)	8 (17)	7 (24)	0 (24)	0 (24) 3rd	83 3rd
Condoms (KC)	36	0 ( 0)	0 ( 0)	0 ( 0)	3 ( 3)	10 (13) =5th	49 4th
Silent Heroes (SH)	35	2 ( 2)	5 ( 7)	0 ( 7)	6 (13)	0 (13) =5th	48 5th
Gladiators (GL)	31	0 ( 0)	0 ( 0)	9 ( 9)	5 (14)	0 (14) 4th	45 6th
IzIt (IZ)	25	5 ( 5)	1 ( 6)	0 ( 6)	0 ( 6)	0 ( 6) 10th	31 =7th
Bad Company (BC)	24	0 ( 0)	1 ( 1)	5 ( 6)	1 ( 7)	0 ( 7) 9th	31 =7th
Allsorts (AS)	21	0 ( 0)	1 ( 1)	3 ( 4)	0 ( 4)	8 (12) 7th	33 9th
Menace (SM)	14	3 ( 3)	7 (10)	0 (10)	0 (10)	0 (10) 8th	24 10th
Ant Hill Mob (AM)	22	0 ( 0)	0 ( 0)	1 ( 1)	0 ( 1)	0 ( 1)=14th	23 11th
Vange Destroyers (VD)	15	0 ( 0)	2 ( 2)	1 ( 3)	0 ( 3)	0 ( 3)=11th	18 12th
Mushy's Team (MT)	8	0 ( 0)	0 ( 0)	1 ( 1)	0 ( 1)	0 ( 1)=14th	9 13th
The Jacks (JA)	3	0 ( 0)	0 ( 0)	0 ( 0)	0 ( 0)	0 ( 0)=17th	3 =14th
Team Skeef (SK)	1	2 ( 2)	0 ( 2)	0 ( 2)	0 ( 2)	0 ( 2) 13th	3 =14th
Dunno (DU)	0	0 ( 0)	3 ( 3)	0 ( 3)	0 ( 3)	0 ( 3)=11th	3 =14th
Buzz Boyz (BZ)	1	0 ( 0)	0 ( 0)	0 ( 0)	0 ( 0)	0 ( 0)=17th	1 =17th
No Point (NP)	0	1 ( 1)	0 ( 1)	0 ( 1)	0 ( 1)	0 ( 1)=14th	1 =17th

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