Skegness, Sunday 13th July 2008
It was almost Groundhog Day at Skegness for the second part of the weekender, as once again Chris Cowley went for a big last bend shot on Mark Helliwell in the Final. But experience counts for a lot, and this time Helliwell was ready and beat Cowley to the line by the narrowest of margins for his first ever Final win. Another first was Michael Scriven’s first race win since being upgraded to red. Read more
Skegness, Saturday 12th July 2008
With the F1s apparently playing second fiddle to the F2 and Saloon UK Championships, just over 40 travelled to the Skegness July weekender where Chris Cowley took a career first Final win in dramatic style, with a big last bend attack on long time leader Mark Helliwell. Also looking good were second generation white tops Joe Booth, son of Steve (ex-446); and James Clement, son of Keith (ex-58). Read more
Coventry Q&A
The last three meetings at Coventry have seen a break from the traditional three heats format, and we asked Coventry’s stock car promoter Jeremy Heaver to explain what it was all about. Read more
Updates (or lack of!) to this site
For a variety of personal and domestic reasons, your webmaster will not be going to any F1 meetings until the Skegness weekender in July. So there won’t be any meeting reports until then (unless somebody sends some in).
The points charts will still be updated after every meeting. There’s a link to them at the top of the page somewhere.
No commentsBelle Vue, Monday 26th May 2008
Stu Smith netted his fourth Final win of the season with a spectacular victory at Belle Vue. Visibly the quickest car on track, Smith applied liberal use of the front bumper to anyone who got in his way. Unfortunately, the meeting was marred by some adverse weather conditions. Not the traditional Manchester rain, but heavy winds which caused dust problems. Read more