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had been hit so hard by 168 Calvyn Girling that it rolled 
over on impact and this started a trend for later races 
when Ireland’s 357 Carl McClure was tipped over by a 
big hit from Team Predator favourite 879 Reg Reed. A 
variation on the theme in the eighth heat saw Stinkbridge              
man 451 Willy Blackwell invert his own car by delivering 
a length of the straight hit to 886 Adrian French from 
the Gilmorton Red Devils team and then The Undertakers 
captain 361 Chris Walden did the same by rolling himself 
in the act of burying the unlucky Preece into the wall.

As far as the team championship went, the Allstars 1 
team consisting of 19 Joe Mullarkey, 159 Darren Scarrow, 
211 Barry Franklin and 372 Martin Scully made the early 
break for victory scoring 27 out of a possible maximum 
of 34 points in the first round of heats. However, only 
Scully would score any further points in the later races 
with Mullarkey instead concentrating his attentions on              
winning two entertainers trophies for his lively crashing 
performances.              

This allowed defending champions, Team V, to make up 
for a slightly wobbly opening round by scoring the highest 
number of points of any team in the second and third 
rounds of heats and completing a massive victory by being 
the only team to get more than one driver to the finishing 
line in the Final. The team therefore became only the third              
team in history to successfully defend the Icebreaker title, 
proving the value of their team decision to supplement the 
usual Cumbrian based drivers (474 Matty Threlkeld and 
310 John Nicholson) with 262 Buddy James and 901 Mike 


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