Arena Essex - ae0218

Arena Essex Raceway - Meeting 02/18 Sunday, June 16, 2002

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Plastengrave Non-Ford Bangers
Ladies Banger Championship qualifier
Group A Hot Rods Groom Motorsport Supreme Qualifier/Jim Richards Memorial

In Brief

The Arena Essex June 16 meeting was a welcome change from the previous week in that, although it tried hard to rain, it had no real effect on the day.

The meeting started, as is customary with Plastengrave Racing days, with action from the Ladies which saw a convincing win for Amanda Harris ahead of Tricia Walmer and Mandy Cheeseman. However this would not be the last of Ms. Harris that we would see that day, adding to the win in the Ladies qualifier with another win in the main consolation race and another in the curtailed Rawlins qualifier, certain a good points haul.

The meeting final saw another win for Matt Fuller, who has been putting in some good performances this year, followed by team-mate and former squaddie John Randall, with heat wins for Mark Woolner and Stuart Allen. The meeting ended in tragedy, however, when a multiple pile-up at the top of the home straight resulted in the race being abandoned.

Darren Clement continued to dominate the Yokohama Tyres championship with a final win in the Group A Groom Motorsport Supreme Qualifier, which was also the inaugural Jim Richards Memorial. Jim, an ardent enthusiast and long running Group A driver who introduced the Canvey Corsa to the previously Starlet dominated formula, died almost a year ago, this meeting being dedicated to his memory by his family who attended this meeting and awarded the trophy following the final, which Clement won after overcoming long time leader, Wes Graves. Dennis Howes and Dom Tomlinson put in heat wins and Darren Read took the consolation honours, with Steve Gooch becoming the final Group A Festival qualifier winner.

Results

1 Ladies Bangers	449 Amanda Harris	19	312	332	190	326	345	306	346	361	111	141
2 Group A 1	75 Dennis Howes	63	81	115	197	136	148	135
3 Group A 2	17 Dom Tomlinson	92	91	119	56	38	23	22
4 Bangers 1	326 Mark Woolner	381	415	467	331	235	188	193	334	164	356	102
5 Bangers 2	458 Stuart Allen	207	10	183	306	297	418	345	500	404	242	62
6 Group A Consolation	2 Darren Read	26	184	126	122	99	174	90
7 Bangers Consolation	449 Amanda Harris	346	353	32	190	321	543	162	459	283	26	588
8 Group A Final	197 Darren Clement	38	81	17	63	91	126	148
9 Bangers Final	188 Matt Fuller	207	467	193	449	190	242	183
10 Group A FoSq	136 Steve Gooch	38	115	9	56	93	126	91
11 Bangers R2Kq	449 Amanda Harris	183	188

No Last car award was made as Event 11 was abandoned at completion of race segment.

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