VANTASTIC AFTERNOON

Stock Car and Banger action featured twice over the weekend 
at the Norfolk Arena with the stock cars taking centre stage 
on Saturday night but the Bangers stole the show on Monday 
afternoon with the Unlimited Van Bangers in particular thrilling 
the crowds with their larger than life crashing antics.

Starting with the Saturday night action, a total of 38 BriSCA 
F1 Stock Cars gathered for the King’s Lynn round of World 
Championship qualifying with a fine supporting cast of 34 
National Saloon Stock Cars. In the opening heat for the F1’s, 
there were three different leaders Of the first few laps of 
the race with 441 John Lawn, 8 Mick Harris and 55 Craig 
Finnikin all scrapping for the lead until they all tangled together 
on the home straight and crashed out. This left 380 Steve Cayzer
to come through and take the win although Harris made amends 
by taking a more cautious run to victory in the second heat of 
the evening. 231 Mark Peters dived to the front of heat three 
on the second lap and remained there to take the win by a 
considerable margin and he also looked set to win the Final which 
he was leading by several car lengths when a mistake saw him 
crash out of the race and into the wall. This left three of the top 
drivers to produce an amazing last bend finish to the race when 
World Champion 1 Stuart Smith Jnr lunged at the leading 16 Matt 
Newson forcing both cars wide and resulting in a side by side 
sprint to the line. Many spectators believed that Newson reached
the line first by the narrowest of margins, but the telemetry on 
the Cars pronounced Smith as the winner from Newson and 
Cayzer. Peters became the only driver to win twice on the night 
when he romped away once again to win the Grand National.

In the saloon stock cars, a fairly wet track caused havoc in the 
opening race of the night with the top three drivers in the early 
stages all coming unstuck when 390 Michael Hubbert ran 754 
Eamon Howden into the parked car of 369 Andy Santry costing 
them all considerable time and allowing 562 Trevor Gray to 


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