A new month, a new Coventry meeting…
This month Coventry Stadium plays host to the now annual Under 25′s Championship, where the younger drivers get a chance to go head to head in their own race.At the same meeting, another celebration will be taking place. The Ray Tyldesley Memorial meeting takes on a special significance, as it will be 20 years almost to the day that the popular 85 car driver won the prestigious BriSCA F1 World Final at Brandon in 1989.
Also on the bill: Brisca F2′s & Rebels.
Final:
1st – Stuart Smith Jnr
2nd – Frankie Wainman Jnr
3rd – Luke Davidson
There was no surprise in the second World Championship Semi-Final as Frankie Wainman (515) took a near flag to flag win in what emerged as a very entertaining race.
We have been informed that Venray’s owner Henri Maessen is hoping to run the 2009 Gold Cup at Venray raceway over the weekend 26th – 27th September 2009.
Birmingham Wheels was the venue for Saturday nights racing. The meeting would see the second Semi-Final race take place and on that note, a huge crowd was in attendance.
F1stockcars.com caught a few minutes with New Zealand Superstock Champion Malcolm Ngatai (NZ#1) before his first full BriSCA F1 meeting at Birmingham Wheels on 22nd August.
Full interview inside.
Fantastic wet weather imagery caught by the lens of Richard Griffiths. Glorious Aquaplaning & Rooster Tails are the order of the day.
World Championship Semi #2:
1st – Frankie Wainman Jnr
2nd – Paul Harrison
3rd – Stuart Smith Jnr
Final:
1st – Stuart Smith jnr
2nd – Frankie Wainman jnr
3rd – Ed Neachell
The grid so far for the Kings Lynn World Final on 19th September 2009.
Results from the World Championship Semi-final #2 held at Birmingham on 22nd August.
Over the course of the season F1 Stockcars.com hopes to talk to those people behind the scenes that make the show happen. The unsung, under-appreciated, under-valued heroes of our sport. Without these guys we would not have any racing to watch at the race tracks.
An explosive start to the meeting when James Morris (463) impacted the home straight fence after a couple of laps of Heat 1, before slewing across the track and being hit by Mark Gilbank (21), who then collided with Scott Davids (462) before the pair of them came to a dead stop in the turn one fence.
Coventry pre-meeting problems for Murray Harrison 97 meant a starter motor needed to be replaced with the gearbox having to come out for access, and on doing so, swung round and snapped the throttle cable meaning it was all hands on deck to get the car ready for action.
The Queen’s Birthday meeting at Blauwhuis saw over fifty cars celebrate in style in front of a huge crowd.
This journey takes us to the North West of the Netherlands home to the Blauwhuis Clay Track in the Friesland Provence. Where 9 heats and a final will take place over an 8 hour Field Meeting.
Over the winter we featured Rob Harrad’s Winter Strip Down, Re-paint and Re-build. In our final instalment we take a closer look at the new front axle using a home made beam which Rob has permission from the BSCDA to test as well as the final install of the engine and gearbox.
A World Qualifying Round at Belle Vue attracted quite a few visitors to the track, but it was BV regular Mal Brown that took the Final with an uncharacteristically reserved performance.
King’s Lynn’s second BriSCA F1 meeting of the season was staged in distinctly autumnal conditions with a cold wind and persistant rain providing a testing backdrop for the officials and raceteams that had converged on the Norfolk Arena.