BIG ENTRY FROM BANGER
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Mad) taking a hit from 513 Sean Harvey before landing a big 
hit on 279 Colin Hurt whilst 86 Charlie Haller was destroyed 
by 578 Lee Ranshaw (aka Mr Schizo) from Boston. 549 Phil 
Smith of the Gladiators was the race winner and he 
celebrated in style with a stunning follow-in delivered to 
370 Mark French. By the time the East Anglian championship 
came around on the race card, the heavens had opened and 
conditions were very tricky for the drivers. This limited the
size of the crashes that the drivers could dish out although 
there were still some lively moments involving 401 Steve 
Hemmings, Golden and Danny Oliver from the Gladiators. 
99 Ritchie Ahern led the way from start to finish with 148 
Ian Redden getting the runner-up spot and outgoing Champion 
439 Danny Sutton finishing in third.

Despite the conditions, drivers still returned to the track for 
the Allcomers race which saw more lively crashing from Phil 
Smith as 516 Carl Gould motored to the victory. Before the 
destruction derby, 457 Danny McCormack braved the elements 
to carry out a complete engine change to get his Banger back 
out on track. However, he didn’t last long in the battle to be 
the last surviving driver and it was Gladiator’s captain 336 
Ian Smith who saw off team mate 184 Dave Osborne to take 
the win.

With World Championship qualifying points on offer, the 2 
Litre Bangers started out in a very rapid racing mood although 
the opening heat did see a very early rollover for 331 Barry 
Chilvers whose smart car was destroyed by 673 Darren Fendley 
whose car climbed all over the rolling car just in front. 
Thankfully there were no problems for Chilvers although he then 
had to stand by and watch the rest of the racing with World 
Champion 730 Dean Mayes winning the first heat. The second 


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