Jim's Journey

Bonfire weekend on the 6th and 7th November saw the annual gala nights on Spedeworth tracks which are always gooduns and well attended with those popular firework spectaculars`s that are part of the show.In east Anglia it was Ipswich on the Saturday and Yarmouth stadium on Sunday.Ipper`s packed um in as it usually dose for this event with a speed weekend type crowd on what was a chilly night but at least dry.The banger drivers of which there were many were completing in a round of the long running Ipswich Banger racing championship sponsored as it has been for many years by Peter Brown developments.This was round Eight of Nine plus a grand final meeting the Sunday before Christmas and there was some extra dosh up for grabs for the points leader at the end of the night .The cannonball express Dave Canham a former English champion was the man to take the Bonus plus a hoodie which he passed on to former racer Darren Jones who used to race with the HMS wreckers from Harwich until he had a bad crash at yarmouth that sadly put an end to his racing however Darren is still mad keen about the racing and we see him at Ipswich plenty.

The artwork on the cars was outstanding and a star car parade featured a Marina Coupe and a Vauxhall chu-vett that got well wrecked in its first race.The racing was fast and furious with plenty of action and Two rollovers One of those saw a car speeding past the grandstand upside down which thrilled the Great Waldingfield and Acton cub scouts who have attended Gala night as an outing for Five or Six years now and always sit tight in that stand.The 1300cc Stock cars had an explosive finish to there nights racing when on the last lap Jason Scopes rolled his 88 car on the back straight while meanwhile a three car smash in to the wall on the home straight rattled that old grandstand and those cub scouts and while all that was going on white grade driver Jason Nicolle's took his second win of the night in only his second meeting looks like hes got the hang of it.Was a good night and a long time before the car park cleared .Every race was sponsored and every sponsor kindly presented a cheque to the exceptional Thomas Wolsey School in Ipswich which specialises in helping children with moderate to severe leaning difficulties.A pupil at the school Jack Phipps collected all the cheques on behalf of the school and seemed like he was really enjoying his job for the night.

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Its great to have summer midweek racing at Yarmouth on a Thursday night and i for One would love to see a return of the summer Tuesdays also.At the end of July much race traffic was held up on the A12 as massive ques formed because of the Annual Latitude music festival.As we drove past we saw a mass of pitched tents on top of each other and i wondered just how all those people were going to find there own tents in the dark following the Nights headline Act which was the Horry Barns of the music world Seventy year old Tom Jones.As it turned out we could have watched Tom`s gig on the way back despite the delay for a broken fence at Yarmouth as The Welsh crooner did`nt take to the stage until Twenty past midnight So much for curfews ey.One rule for One etc, etc, etc. Mad keen race fan and racer David Humwicks had been driving his lorry round London all day before returning home to Ipswich hooking up his Rookie rod and then battling through the Latitude traffic to race at Yarmouth.The white grade driver did`nt have much luck that night and ill bet he was whacked out when returning home followed by an early start next day no doubt.For sure there is many a racers story like that One.Dedication is what you need now where have i heard that before ?.

The mini Spedeworth Summer stunt show tour rolled in to Ipswich,Yarmouth and Northampton and was something very different to the norm.It was kinda strange turning up at the stadium`s and seeing no cars in the pits just a ruddy great monster truck.The office at Yarmouth empty normally full with people booking in etc was so quite with just Beryl and her Teapot there thank goodness for that at least.Skard for life did some clever stuff on big Bikes and one of the riders Ashley evan managing to do his own commentry as he performed.Paul and Russ Swift well known for There TV work were truly professional in every way.We had a Hen party turn up at Ipswich can you believe and they all ended up in Paul`s car plus yours truly in what i prefer to call the shopping storage space rather than the boot of the Ford Fiesta for a whole lap of foxhall on Two wheels.My the hens were loving it my head was close to the tarmac and my feet in the air the landing was fairly hard but i did get to view this from a proper car seat at Yarmouth that was pretty neat Paul as cool as a cucumber the whole time.It just looked the same as what you see from an incar camera but with added feeling and those posts and wires looked a little close we got Nick Thomas in the boot for that one Heeeee.Big Nigel Morris has a lot of work to do for each Big foot show he dose and is a real nice fella who turned on the monster style getting Big air each night as he went over the cars.It takes some time and some huffing and puffing to get Big foot back in to the rig after the show.Long after every one eles has gone home the wheels have to come of the truck and stored in the back of the rig which is quite an operation in itself Spedeworth staff Chops (One half of Jedward at the banger world) and Jono Helped big Nige and his good lady get the job done each night .The kids loved it all and made plenty of noise especially at Yarmouth.One dad told me how Eight year old Oliver was so excited and had`nt stopped taking about it in the week leading up to the event.Afterwards the crowd were invited on track to meet the stars of the show our cast of just Five Drivers and Riders signed Autographs and chatted with folk.

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The John Earrey Memorial meeting at Ipswich is always a special night and always serves up a super night of racing with the right formula's for the occasion.Nick Thomas hit the spot with his article on John in that evenings programme putting down on paper some of the memory`s that many of us have of Spedeworth`s best commentator of all time.Rod Montagner a driver that you just cant forget from Hot rod racings past was back on the foxhall track that night in a Vauxhall Chevette and he took a heat win in the Classic Hot rods that is bound to be reported on by Kevin Wegg in wheelspin.He also had a couple of skirmishes in heat two and the final and when i asked him about those after the final he replied with a smile and a quiver of that famous tash Well i always did have those didn't i. On a clean dry track the classics looked very fast and this proved to be the case with there times nearly as quick as the National hot rods proving maybe that there`s only so fast you can go on a quarter mile oval.Joe Parmers crowd pleasing standing of his banger on its nose was a show stopper in the nights destruction derby and Joe was busy talking away to him self looking down at the tarmac when the safety crew arrived on the sean.Joe said he was just trying to put together what had happened and climbed out OK to race his 1300cc stock car the next night at Yarmouth .Also there's were some big hits in the Superstox and a good sum of money was raised for the Help for Hero's charity which i think every one wants to support.As always at this meeting Christer and Darren worked hard behind the seans to make sure this meeting was once again a success and Christer suffering with Man flu all weekend to.

On the way to Yarmouth in may i stopped of at the Henham Park Wheels and wings show near Southwould a really good event with lots of great cars on display including Spedeworth marshal and former racer Desmond Decker Newell`s classic Ford 100 E and son Terry`s road going Toyota Starlet was proudly displayed. Also Adam Garrison rookie rod which was alongside that rally car that entertained us on prat his night at Ipswich back in February.There was a very good attendance at this event and of cause it was a day when Spedeworth people were busy with Yarmouth but i thought this might be a good place for a full blown Spedeworth promotional stand.The low flying air display had planes making passes lower than the trees and had me thinking is this for real and i could`nt help but notice that you get to see the wing walking girls close up at this show and i wondered if any of the spedeworth Trophy`y girls would fancy doing that wing walking thing ! Looks a bit dangerous mind.

Three weeks later There was a Spedeworth stand at the annual Two day Suffolk show which is held at Trinity park just outside Ipswich.The stand featured a well presented Three car display with the cars of English World qualifying series winner in the National hot rods Chris Haird.Recent Superstox winner Colin Aylward and the Legend car of Steffan Lloyld a scaled down 37 Ford Sedan .There were flags and nice posters advertising forthcoming blockbusters at Foxhall and a very busy Nick T and Christer were being asked questions from a never ending flow of interested folk drawn to the stand as they walked around this massive show site.The cars gleamed in non stop brilliant sunshine on both days that brought out this events biggest attendance for five years.Nice One Spedeworth Great stand second only to the food tent !

The bank holiday Monday meeting at Ipswich on May 30th was an excellent show with all three formula's National Hot rods ,Lightning rods and Bangers turning on the style that can only be Spedeworth and providing exciting racing plus there was a mini classic car show on the lawn behind the garden bar.Was that Des`s 100 E again yes sure was.On the track we know the Nationals all look great but what added to the show on this occasion was the excellent paint work on the most of the bangers.The drivers really did us proud when it mattered.Kelvin Banthorp the mole who has been a foxhall banger regular for many seasons now had an brilliant mole on the rear of his Honda Civic while Mark Armstong`s Cavalier had these words and i quote Mark my words your uppence will come.Another long time Ipswich banger racer Andy Hill had this on the bonnet Looking lush cos its done with a brush Sam's signs.It did look lush to play it again Sam there were many more good ones out there two and no doubt Kev's report will record the antics of Roger Rabbit and his incredible shrinking car in the final happy to say the big rabbit a top the car survived to race again another day just the site of that big bunny on the roof going round was funny Well done that man and indeed well done everyone just steering away to the Yarmouth Bangers now happy to report again that the racing has been all good up to now plus we had a great big van show the other week the main thing is every meeting has been entertaining Thank you Guys n Girls for all the effort you have put in.Its takes a lot to race you have to love it to enjoy it

Was pleasing to see Na na na Nineteen Lightning rods at Yarmouth to in may which produced a cracking final.We didn`t have this many at any Yarmo meeting in 2009 so everything seems to be on the up which is kinda hard to work out as fuel prices are more astronomical than ever.OK i gotta watch some football see ya at the Speedweekend.Whats that its here already

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The sights and sounds of the BRISCA FORMULA ONE STOCK CARS is always an annual treat for Suffolk race fans.Thirty Seven cars raced in a Two Thirds heats format.John Lund was on experimental tyres and didn't figure in the places.Rob Snoopy Cowley led heat One but it was a good smooth drive from young blue grade driver Ryan Harrison that was successful.Yellow grade Wesley Goodwin put in a super quick drive to win heat Two both Dutch drivers in the field figured in this race Peter Van Den Bosch secured the runner up spot while Gert van Keijzer was in third place but was pushed aside by the world champion Andy Smith .Gert held the car to push over the line in forth.Lee Robinson put together a good drive to win heat Three in difficult conditions ahead of 2009 European champion Lee Fairhurst this was after former Spedeworth V8 stock car driver Colin Goodswen had won his first race since joining the big league this year. However sadly he was to full foul of the dreaded weight rule and was later disqualified.One or Two drivers got away a bit sharpish at the start of the final in this penultimate world championship qualifying round but the race was on.Ed Neachell was flying an England flag from the rear of his car showing he had faith in the team as he charged to the front.Robinson put together another good drive to arrive in second place close to the end and the last half lap produced a big finish to the race.As they started that lap it looked like Robinson probably would`nt get on the back of the leader however that was not the case there was a big last bend lunge on Neachell that at first did`nt look like it had moved him far enough but there was back markers everywhere and Ed tangled with Tom Harris the pair crashing across the finish line which would be good enough for the runner up spot as second over the line Chris Bonner was disqualified later over a weight technicality while Lee Robinson took his second win of the night crossing the line in a cool looking sideways drift.I just went for it Lee said after the race i didn't evan know i was sideways.There was a Wainman freight train that raced across the finish line in the all comers Grand National with Frankie Junior adding another Ipswich win to his records and Impressive young Danny right behind him

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The Forty Seventh stageing of the prestigious SUPERSTOX British championship saw twenty cars in the pits but sadly that number was cut to Seventeen come race time However it was still a good race as expected run over Thirty laps with drivers drawing there grid positions pre race in the pits.Both local favourite Eddie Edmonds and former twice over world tittle holder Glenn Salmon were sidelined with blow engines while Colchester`s Brett Wesbroom made it on to the track but not on to the grid.The car sat on the centre black with bonnet up driver and crew desperately trying to sort out there mechanical problems but it was not to be.Billy the kid Smith was on the pole with Flitwick`s Jack Hughes along side.At the green flag going in to the first corner row four starter Colin Chopper Aylward got a nudge as everyone was charging for the front.This sent the Fifty One car into a fence post at turn One doing tremendous damage to his car at the front end.Steering and bumper broken ,punctures and buckled wheels the stricken car brought out the reds and a complete restart was ordered.This time every body got cleanly away and Billy was looking good at the front opening up a slight lead but he was caught and passed by double English champion Mark Smith on lap Twelve.Reigning world champion Ben Marjoram started on row nine but good work throughout the race saw him join Smith at the front for the closing stages.On the last lap half way down the back straight Ben made contact and of cause it was hard both cars rode up over the kerb on turn three with Mark running wide across the corner with Ben some how holding his car on the inside to make the pass and win the British tittle for the second time.Mark Smith regained momentum to finish fourth behind Nick Smith who had raced well and got past Billy for the runner up spot as it turned out.Steven Jackson was Fifth and there was not to be a British hatrick of tittles for the 08 and 09 winner Jason Cooper who finished sixth from his row eight start.Two heats races followed Alexander Meadows led the first lap of the first one .He was passed by Jack Hughes who with good driving led to heat eight when Nick Smith took up the running to the end.Sixteen cars started and Sixteen cars finished no brake downs required.Keith Miller was the first leader of the second heat and then Meadows led from lap three to Nine but it was Nick Smith with an Impressive drive to his second win of the meeting who led the rest of the way and just look how close he was to keeping that Yarmouth Hatrick record going for another meeting.Meadows was shuffled down the order but put a big hit on Phil Proctor to win the seventh spot back

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Big van BANGERS brought big fun for the bigger than usual crowd in real seaside weather.Before heat one got under way Steven Sipka proudly displayed his Ice cream/fish van complete with chimes in an excellent entry of Nineteen big uns out there.Graham Clipboard Utting got rolled over on to his side in his crowd pleasing camper van with nice curtains blowing in the breeze.Graham jumped out and got clear just in time as his camper got wiped out and those curtains were never to be seen again meanwhile it was Carl Gould who drove through the chaos for the win.In heat Two Jonny Rubber Duck Wilkinson rolled over Track champion Michael Allard on to his side right across the start/finish line.Starter Lynn Cooper could hold conversation with Michale as he laid on his side and when he did get out he was able to help the Lady out by holding up the lap boards from the rostrum so that drivers could see them over the pile of vans there by now and even did a bit of flag waving to while Jonny made his exit via the side door just like Mr T in The A team.It was just Five laps for the Delivery Drivers Trophy's and then straight in to the Destruction Derby but the DD was underway even before Ryan Preston crossed the line for the win in his Dingles Van.Rubber ducks van was bent like a banana when it was hit hard midship across the track while the DD came down to a tough battle between Allard and Ben Smith in his J K Lawn sponsored LDV twin wheel Y.they had several hits back to back then a bone jarring head on that brought things to a close in flavor of Allard.The biggest van of the night was Alex Sipka`s pink painted Barbies Horsebox Iveco 60/10 Big and beautiful it said on the front even at around fifteen miles to the gallon It run out of gas before the final but entertained never the less.

Twenty seven ROOKIE RODS(Small Stock budget class) used a National Hot rod style reverse grids Two from Three heats system to decide the grid for the Norfolk championship Final.Alex Crane won heat one from the pole while there was a star drive up to second place from grid Ten by Darren Terry of Brighton.Ian Loome tapped Gary Knott and then later in the race Knott pushed Loome of to the fence at the car park end which earned Knott a disqualification.Dean Miller got spun out early on in heat Two as did Alex Crane at the back.Billy Clarke took the lead of Lloyd Mullins on lap four and built up a big lead to win.Dave Reed spun out early in heat Three as local driver Bob Ballard junior led all the way until the last lap when Ted Symes made a brilliant pass to win only to have that win taken of him later when his car was deemed underweight and this sadly meant he was not allowed to take his place on the grid for the final.Adam Garrison`s steering wheel fell of while he was in third but he was able to stop the car before he met the fence.Terry was on the pole for the final with Billy Clarke alongside.Terry led but Clarke caught and passed him when the back marking Miller took the leader wide on the pit bend at lap seventeen of Twenty .

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Adam Eyles had a slender points lead the LIGHTNING RODS (2 litre one make big ford saloons)Polleysport/Yokoharma tyres series in to round Five making what turned out to be a four and a half hour trip from Lopcomb to defend it but it wasn't the best of days for the blue grade driver.Big fella Jimmy Rix raced to a fine win from the yellow grade in heat one while the biggest mover in the field of Nineteen was Gary legrice making an outside pass on Wayne Farrer for third that didn't work and sent him backwards down the field but still he fought his way back up to a fifth place finish.2009 series champion Richard Warner found the lead again in heat 2.Lee Skoyles tried to pass him on the the inside but couldn't find quite enough room to do so and Richard took the victory.Craig Boyd and Rix got together late in the race and charged the pit bend fence side by side.The Twenty five lap final was an epic affair with lots of passing which for this formula is often tricky on this track.There was incident on lap twelve over on the back straight when Lee Skoyles looked down the inside of Diggy Smith.The cars touched which knocked Lee out of line sending him across the track in to the fence and took Steve Santry with him who hit like a ton of bricks doing what looked like major damage to the front end of his car.The yellows came out for the second time on lap Twenty three when four abreast out of turn four just wasn't going to work and Harry Skoyles ended up fence bound.Richard Spavins was disqualified for contact and we were set up for an exciting two lap shootout when Boyd made a brilliant outside pass to take the win away from long time leader Ben Furness.

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The 2.0 L STOCK CARS provided hard hitting action in the race for the East Anglian championship tittle.There were no white or yellow grade cars in the Thirteen car field so it was young Robert (Spud) Gamble who led from the blues in heat one before the defending tittle holder Steve (Cecil) Anscombe arrived to take up the running.There was a big finish in store when points leader George Morphey arrived on the last lap to put a big last bend lunge on Cecil It moved him wide and George had to much speed to stay on the inside this leaving a gap for Billy the Wood like a ferret up ya trouser leg to nip up the inside take the space and the win.Spud meanwhile had hit and broke a post on the pit bend but he came back to lead heat Two before he was passed by Billy who in turn felt the force of another Morphy challenge sending him wide at the car park end while it didn't work out for George again as he half spun on to the kerb allowing Diggy Smith to pop through and lead to the finish.Meanwhile Billy was spun hard in to the back straight fence and Morphy had got going again only to blow his motor.There was a big sort out at the start of the main race .It was all action with cars going everywhere and you didn't know where to look.When things settled down a little Cecil and Ottershaws Joe Parker had a good battle with Parker nudging and shoving the champ .He got past but the One Nine Four car was always going to come back at Joe and hit him harder knocking him back to forth at the finish.So this was Steve Anscombe third EA tittle in the four year history of the race.

Twenty Two BANGERS were in destructive mood Norwich man Mark Webb led heat one but ended up in a crash with Clipboard Graham Utting at the car park end.Sadly this put an end to what was Clipboards beautifully prepared Triumph Acclaim .There were some big crashes in heat two .Jonney Rubber Duck Wilkinsons car got hit hard and slammed in to the pit bend fence but amazingly he was able to drive the remains out and around the track at gt speed with a firework show on tow this led to a technical disqualification.Shane Emmerson was leading most of the way in his Rover coupa and piled in to Crankie Kirk Savorey hard on turn three after that he continued to lead but disappeared on the last lap allowing Dean Mayes to take his second win of the night.Jonney had worked some kind of miracle to straighten out his car for the final but only to manage to get it back in to exactly the same state again while Barry Beavors Nissan Bluebird also got smashed out o shape Dan Coleman put a hit on the little Renault Five of Kevin Taylor while Mayes was leading gunning for the hatrick but he conked out and that allowed a charging track champion Micheal Allard to win his second yarmouth final of 2010.

Round one of Gt Yarmouths LADIES BANGERS series raised eleven entries and entertaining racing.Karen Smallwood bashed of leader Amy Arthurton but bounced of and fenced herself just past the pit gate in a superbly prepared Yarmouth stadium Nissan Sunny This left the track clear for the midnight lady Maria Neal to win heat one from the back In heat Two Abbie Smith streaked away to win while there was a good race in the final between Cassie Smith and Jane Allard as they raced side by side for the lead.Cassie wound up in the fence and Karen once again put herself in as she challenged for the lead at gt speed and got out of shape.Jane was first across the line ahead of just three other finishers

There were some great cars on show in the HERITAGE FORMULA TWO STOCK CARS and it was was a pass on the finish line that won the race for Marty Page driving his Model Y ford just stealing it from Paul Rookyards Fiat Topolino bodied car.Clive Beale raced for many years with Roy Goodman and remembers racing at Yarmouth on a shale track and he wasn't to impressed at receiving his first ever black flag in fifty years of racing when he had a skirmish with Pete Wellands Model Y and bounced on to grass but he didn't rejoin the track where he went of and the disqualification was for an infringement of the safety area.Mick Whittle won this race starting from the back in his 1949 Volks wagen beetle bodied car with a Daimler Grill a front the car.It didn't go so well for Mick in the final when he spun round on turn one and was hit by Michael Warmsley in his 1953 Ford Pop.Pete Welland who drove his first stock car race in March of 1960 led for many laps but it was Rookyard of Ipswich who took the victory.

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Hi everyone

New season underway then and the action at Spedeworth coming at ya fast and as furious as ever.I know late November 2009 is well gone now but i just want to mention an event that happened to raise money for Children in need organised by trophy girl Sam and Christer at Foxhall stadium which is in Ipswich just in case somebody reading this hasn't heard of the place highly unlikely i suppose but you never know.Anyway the event was a 100 lap sponsored cycle ride (about twenty five miles) and the madness within me decided this would be fun so i along with many others took to the track.Silly hats were a must but i was a little surprised to find that my trusty old cycle was the only one that fell in to the historic class apart from young Master Thomas that is who had a classic chopper.Of cause i was never going to beat the likes of DJ and former racer Terry Ferret Newell but i decided be for the haft way stage to do all one hundred tours without stopping.The first lap was really hard the next ten not so bad.At around twenty five laps the banger drivers amongst us decided to turn around and go the other way which meant you had to watch out for em twice a lap.It really was a little early for the destruction derby but certainly added to the fun.At fifty laps i decided to turn it around also on the start line and by the end of it we were all going the other way round.Crossing the line at seventy five laps i thought that's a National hot rod world final of cause my time was far slower than Carl Boardly and for that matter Ferret Newell who by that time had stoped at fifty laps for a break then compleated the hundred laps and was now at home with a nice cup of tea and eating a tasty piece of cake.The last twenty five laps was most enjoyable and made me think the National hot rod world should be a hundred laps also.As i crossed the line at lap one hundred i decided to stop on the slowing down lap to pick up a spanner i had seen on the track and had passed many times as i put my foot down it turned to jelly and i collapsed in to a heap and crashed my trusty cycle and every one came over to laugh of cause.To name but just a few Nick Thomas ,Christer and Sam got on there bikes and took part plus there was Darren from Print for u who towed his young son round on a smaller bike for more than sixty laps.Well done him my that looked like hard work.One of our marshells wore a full Pudsey bear outfit that looked very warm work also and former multi slotsstoxs champion of years gone by Paul Mower was also going round the track like lightning and past me many a time and thanks to Porky who took on the job of event photographer.To every one who took part a huge well done to you all it really was great fun.

The annual Autosport international event at the NEC in Birmingham is a truly massive event and the indoor live action arena saw some of our formula's racing on a track that was bigger than ever in the history of this event.The track was was a mini Rockingham with four right angled corners and four short straights which drivers seemed to be making a line of a big circle around a mass of concrete beams that hold up the building.It must have been like driving inside a computer game.As always it was a spectacular show that thousands of people came to see over four days.The formula one stock cars were faster than ever indoors and were impressing just about everybody if not scaring the living daylights out of everyone as they charged towards the grandstands at gt speed.The hot rods and stock rods put on a good show as did the formula two boys also the banger drivers were successful in producing close high speed passes on a figure eight track in amongst all those beams and when Jenson Button appeared well you would have thought you were at a rock concert as the excitement went way up there.Somehow Legendary spedeworth starter Dave smith was doing an extraordinary job of organising a cast of many back stage as in a show like this everything has to happen on q.Meanwhile in the main show the Spedeworth team had there stand and plenty of great looking cars on display.Many fixture lists were given out and a good job done.This is of cause a very expensive exercise but hopefully will bring new race fans to the tracks

There were two pratice nights at Ipswich in February the first one for contact formula's was on a dry but bitterly cold night.Still it was good to see the superstox back on track and looking quick but star of the night was Dave Taber in an genuine BMW historic spedeworth saloon stock car.Dave pointed the car at the wall on the exit on turn four each and every time he came round and was a whisker of the armco each time George Polly style only once did he make contact with it brushing it with a loud clang.

It was a bit warmer the next week when near on sixty non contact cars took to the track and interestingly a rally car and its driver from Norfolk.This was spectacular to watch with rubber burning sideways slides on the bend.Could there be a match race with a National hot rod on the cards ? well who knows.Meanwhile in the stadium diner this night Big Pete Rose was staging a shake down for his radio controlled model stock car club.There were V8 Stock cars that slide the back end out on the bends.Hot rods that's drove round the fence and crashed like the best of em and bangers that were just unreal the race i watched was highly destructive.Of cause its all good fun and the club will run on Friday nights at the stadium if you want to take a look.If we don't get to see to much of the V8 stock cars on the track at foxhall this year we can still see the radio controlled type in the diner .Have fun see ya at the track

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The twenty second STOCK ROD (1400cc saloon cars) East Anglian championship and Tenth one to be held at Yarmouth stadium doubled up as round two of the Polleysport/Yokohama tyres series and reverse grids were the order of the day with a points from heats order final.Heat one saw Brentfords Richard Pickett held of Andy Sturt in a high speed line of cars to the end.In heat two the defending champion Wayne Leedell had the pole and led the field away.There was an early yellow flag on lap two when birthday boy Shaun Taylor who has hit Thirty years of age tangled with Jamie Bowring.Shaun was able to continue .There was a second yellow a few laps later when the world tittle holder Stuart Fox tangled with Patrick Smith junior and Mathew Woodcock.Fox heading across the grass while Leedle was out front all the way which would secure him pole again for the final Smith did enough to line up along side him with Pickett and 2004 winner Sturt on row two.Twenty two cars made the start in the Twenty five lap race where once again Leedell would never be headed and raced away for back to back EA wins Smith Junior was in second place until lap fourteen when he came up behind back marker Scott Billman exiting the pit bend.Scott was out of shape and whatever way Smith went to avoid him the thirty eight car was there and Junior was out of it on the centre black Pickett and Sturt took up the chasing places and that's how they finished

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What would seem to be the forty second stageing of the SUPERSTOX East Anglian championship as it hasnt quite been run every year since 1964 saw the man who won the second stageing in 1965 Mr Chris Studd formerly race number 399 officiating in the box for this meeting.Twenty one cars raced with the tittle on the line in the final Jack Hughes led some laps in heat one while Colchesters Phil Proctor was using his bumper plenty.About mid race Matt Sole went up and over the bonnet of Richard Raymond at turn one and a big tangle up ensured with European champion Matt Carberry lost a wheel at the exit of the next turn apparently due to a stuck throttle causing him to somehow bring the car to a stop and the yellows were out.All the top drivers had charged to the front but it wasn't long after the green flag that we saw Ben Munford in the fence at turn four and a second yellow appeared to pull him out. Steven Jackson unbeaten at Gt Yarmouth so far this season was looking like he was going to keep that record intact as he held the lead with five to go but this was not to be as he also had what was thought to be a stuck throttle send him in to the fence hard at the pit bend putting an end to his days racing and bringing out the third yellow of the race.A one lap shootout was required to complete the distance and World champion Ben Marjoram was leading and took the flag at the end of a dramatic twenty laps.There was a yellow flag at lap six of heat two when this time Proctor found the fence on the back straight and the defending EA tittle holder Jason Cooper went in behind him.Jason was able to return to the track but Phil was not.Jack Hughes led some laps again but was lapped before race end following a spin by Marjoram on his way to win number two. Before the start of the main event Shaun Brooker was sent to the back of the superstars for warming his tyres on the centre black.When the race got underway Gary Sparkes seven times a former holder of this tittle looked hell bent on making it eight and was charging.He was up to third place very quickly but then he went out whilst challenging Hughes for second both cars tangling and ending up in the fence. English champion Mark Smith caught a marker tyre latter in the race while running at the front and the Linconshire ace Marjoram took the lead of him and went on to take the tittle and an impressive hatrick Brooker finished second but was taken out of the result following post race scrutineeing as was Ryan Eaton who had crossed the line sixth .This gave the outgoing champion Cooper the runner up spot and Glenn Salmon made it three Superstox world champs on the podium.

Thirty three BANGERS made for a great start to the Yarmouth season and there was lots of action as early as the first lap with cars everywhere Jonny Wilkinson got stuffed in at the start line by Andy Wyatt and Ashley Whitwam soon joined them.Rat boy Steve saw got a puncture and spent most of the race getting of the track.Kevin Taylor in his estate car was leading the race for the second time close to the end of the race when track champion put a big last bend lunge on him from way back and got the job done for the win just nine finished. Allard took the lead of Kirk Savoury,s Vauxhall Astra in heat two to win again.Come the final Rat boy hit the fence with Jason Cossey hanging of the back of his car which must of shook up the poor old cuddly bunny tied to the pillars of Raty,s car Allard got the hatrick ahead of Jack Willard and Yorkie junior .A destruction derby was added to the programme as the drivers had asked for it and Allard put a big hit on cossey in the end it came down to Michale Allard and Dan Bullock in his estate car that had been smashed many times and survived but couldn't outlast the champ who made it a record Quarto winning session for car number three four nine.

Two thirds heats for rookie rods with over Thirty cars racing.Paul (Captain ) Mainwaring looking calm and confident led heat one from start to finish while Brighton's Darren Terry was the biggest mover and got up to second until he made contact with a slowing back marker that caused a puncture and front end damaged that sidelined him.Ryan Cannell won heat two by a third of a lap.Mainwaring was leading again in heat three but had to retire with problems and Dave Reed took the win.Paul Mainwaring and his car were back to there best in the final to win leading all twenty laps from his white grade start meanwhile Dave Reed made a late race pass,Leo Warner lost his mirror and Darren Terry's luck was out again as he had a crash near the end smashed the radiator and re-damaged the repaired front end.

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