racing it was 8 Mick Harris who glided straight past Foster 
to win the race.

16 year-old Daniel Wainman made good progress at the start 
of the Final until a race suspension for a winded driver saw 
the rising start have to retire with a puncture. 462 Scott 
Davids pulled a long way clear of the pack on the restart 
and looked set for almost certain victory until a mistake saw 
him spin out just a couple of laps from home. This left Paul 
Hines in charge and with a good gap he appeared to be the 
certain winner until the last bend when Stuart Smith floored              
it from half way down the straight to land a big hit to the 
back of Hines as he disappeared into the corner. Both cars 
hit the wall and bounced off facing the correct direction 
and Hines just won the sprint to the line by a matter of 
inches. Smith was second and 242 Dave Nickolls was third. 
231 Mark Peters took to the front of the Grand National 
event at half distance and motored to a convincing victory 
whilst behind him, a big crash between Davids and 65 Iain 
Stirk over second position saw Stirk sustain a suspected 
neck injury. The process of carefully getting Stirk from the 
car took nearly two hours, but thankfully a check-up in 
hospital revealed nothing more than severe bruising and 
Stirk was released later the same night.

Onto Sunday’s supporting action and the National MiniStox 
fielded 26 cars where Karl Emmett was in dominating form 
romping through the field to win both of the Heats. 
However, his car didn’t seem quite as fast over the longer 
distance in the Final and National Champion Jack Aldridge 
pushed Emmett wide to be the victor although Emmett 
hung on to claim second with Billy Webster reversing 
terrible fortunes in the heats to get his only result of the 
day in third place.

Even though some of the expected drivers were put off 
travelling by the weather forecast, the 2 Litre Bangers still 
numbered 49 cars which was well ahead of the averages for 


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