SHINNY SHINES

Stock Car and Banger racing action returned to the Norfolk 
Arena on Sunday afternoon when another excellent gathering 
of 48 TSR Bangers and 54 Two Litre Bangers put on a first 
class mixture of racing and wrecking whilst the Rebels formula 
turned out a best ever field of 39 cars at Kings Lynn.  The 2 
Litre Bangers were the show-stoppers of the day with drivers 
arriving from as far South as the Essex bank of the Thames and 
as far North as Doncaster and Sheffield and although many 
drivers delivered some cracking hits, the best individual 
performance of the day came from Peterborough’s 400 Kevin 
Shinn.

Focusing firstly on the 2 Litre Bangers, the afternoon started 
with a bang for 185 Ben Oliver when he was comprehensively 
destroyed in the first race by big shots from both 564 Mark 
Cooper and then Jason Chilton. This seemed to set the tone              
for the afternoon with the second race seeing a similar 
situation when 389 Charlie Garrod was left with a much 
shortened Ford Scorpio courtesy of big hits from 844 Tom 
Haggerty and 45 Rob Hughes. Hughes then became the victim 
of Kevin Shinn’s first major crash of the afternoon although 
this was far from the end of his display as he went on to 
deliver a massive hit to 90 Simon Chapman later in the same 
event. The two races so far had been won by 741 Luke Parfitt 
and 788 Dan Burton and attentions now turned to the Final 
where the East Anglians took on the drivers from the North. 
Shinny firstly dealt with 70 Anthony Long by pushing him into 
a parked car although the plucky youngster managed to 
continue in the race and required further attacks from 191 
Shaun McMillan and a second battering from Shinny before he 
was rendered immobile. The remaining big hits came from 36 
Brett Copestake who piled 149 Wayne Bailey into the wall 
allowing Shinny to deliver another monster shot to Copestake 
whilst McMillan pulled off another wicked hit on the car of 85 
James Ellis leaving the latter with a fine wreck to take home. 
639 Paul Vines kept clear of trouble and led the race from start 

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