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Arena Essex Raceway - Meeting 05/34 Sunday, October 2, 2005

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The Terry Skeef Memorial
Plastengrave Non-Ford Bangers & Group A Hot Rods

Report

Group A Hot Rods
Plenty of success for newcomer and sometime bad boy of the Group A Hot Rods Dan Moulton at the Terry Skeef Memorial meeting at Arena Essex on October 2 with a double win in the heats whilst Dave Lamb continued his winning streak with a heat win and Alan Thorndyke became the latest winner of this title.

Lamb won the first heat with a classic back to front drive, Dave Hutchins taking second place by half a length from Mark Nichols off the last corner. Moulton took the second heat after Lee Follett, who had led early on, ended up in a spin with Chris Smith and Lamb in a fight for the lead, Follett not finishing the race though Smith and Lamb managed to limp home down the order while Thorndyke finished ahead of Mark West. Moulton then took the third heat ahead of an interesting battle for second place which was narrowly taken by West as he attempted to run outside Simon Simmons. Thorndyke took off in the final, however, managing to leave the field behind as the rest of the red tops were bogged down behind the body of the field, West and Simmons again taking second and third respectively.

Plastengrave Bangers
Billy King may not have won any races during the Terry Skeef Memorial climax to the Plastengrave Non-Ford Banger series, but that didn't really matter as his position in the series points was unassailable, most of the betting being down to who would take the runner-up and third place trophies. That was all assured by some good runs by Phillip Smith, who won the second heat of the day to take second place overall, and Gary Brown who won the meeting final ahead of Paul Whiteman and Matt Fuller. Steve Wilson was the other heat winner, whilst Whiteman went on to take the Rawlins qualifier win along with Jack King who took the less subtle way into the £2000 final at the end of October.

Results

1. Bangers Heat 1	264 Steve Wilson	552	188	567	323	112	V51	183
2. Group A Hot Rods Heat 1	82 Dave Lamb	86	16	48	53	12	136	28	11	119
3. Bangers Heat 2	549 Phillip Smith	67	348	10	331	200	303	267
4. Group A Hot Rods Heat 2	47 Dan Moulton	28	6	14	135	18	82	12	91	102
5. Bangers Annual Staff Race	27 Les Saunders	106	01	221	208	345	655	505	303	NOCR
6. Group A Hot Rods Heat 3	47 Dan Moulton	6	112	135	14	134	136	91	11	102
7. Bangers Terry Skeef Memorial	567 Gary Brown	10	188	264	208	183	200	112	345	221
8. Group A Hot Rods Terry Skeef Memorial	28 Alan Thorndyke	6	112	91	18	82	135	48	119	136
9. Bangers Rawlins 2000 Qualifier	10 Paul Whiteman	105	39

Last car: 39 Jack King

Plastengrave Non-Ford Series result: 49 Billy King / 549 Phillip Smith / 67 Gary Brown

Staff Drivers' list in no particular order

221	Rob Porter
27	Les Saunders
01	Sam Young
106	Mark Farmer
303	Brian Reed
330	Michael Smith
505	Martin Ashworth
655	Brian Hooper
498	Brian Bentley
208	Darren Harding
345	Sharon Ashworth