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 7/11/09 The latest edition of  Stox World (Issue 321) is now out. The F1 National Series shoot out has taken place, read who did what. F2 shale racing is as popular as ever and this issue has details of who won the World of Shale title. The first F1 final to be won on Goodyear tyres has taken place and the winner looks particularly pleased in the full colour picture. Don't miss reading the masses of great inside  F1 info in the 'Through the lens' article by Steve Botham. Giving his 'view from the driving seat' in this issue we have F2 driver Brian Shadbolt and some very interesting views they are too. A new track is planned for the west country. David Polley is on the verge of setting a new F2 record. Catch up with which F2 drivers will be sitting out which meetings after a spate of F2 disciplinary hearings! Top F1 competitor takes third title in the space of five weeks.  Pick this issue up at a track or better still for details of where to subscribe, cost etc click here.

5/11/09 Read what 'Who won' has to say about John Mickel going out to compete in the USA.

5/11/09

'Stock Car Racing is Magic' Issue 1 is now available from spedeworth raceways and is a superb pictorial looking back at the 'Cross In Hand Raceway' and with over 200 photos, many never published before, will stir many memories of the excellent and sadly missed track down in deepest East Sussex.

The pictorial has been created and published by Dean Cox and Dave Baldwin (Graphics by Dave), and produced not only to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Spedeworth next year, but just as importantly, a tribute to the memory and life through the lense of 'Fred Buss', one of spedeworths photographers of the late 60s up until his retirement around 1980.

A donation from every copy of 'Stock Car Racing is Magic' will go to Cancer Research, and whilst published earlier than planned, more issues are designed and ready for publication with issue 2 due out at easter next year, featuring more classic photos from fred's collection covering Arlington, Wimbledon and Spedeweekends from those memorable days.

Dean Cox and Dave Baldwin hope you will support and thoroughly enjoy this fantastic trip down memory lane, the cost of each issue available at £2.50

5/11/09  BriSCA F2 will start the celebrations of their Golden Jubilee of the formula at the Autosport Show at the NEC in Birmingham on the 16th & 17th January 2010. The new cars of World Champion Micky Brennan & National Points Champion David Polley along with Mark Sargent will be on display on the official BriSCA F2 stand in Hall 10.

BriSCA F2 will also be racing in the Live Action Arena. With 14 of the top drivers racing in the 6pm show on the Saturday and the 4.45pm show on the Sunday.
The 14 drivers are:
7 Gordon Moodie
38 David Polley
78 Henry King
100 George MacMillan
152 Mick Sworder
315 Justin Fisher
401 Barry Goldin
641 Dennis Middler
647 Chris Burgoyne
676 Neil Hooper
854 Robbie Dawson
871 Mark Simpson
886 Chris Bradbury
968 Micky Brennan

BriSCA F2 is Europe's Largest Short Oval Formula. Over 600 Drivers, more than 25 Tracks, and in excess of 200 meetings per season from the North of Scotland to the South West of England, and across Mainland Europe and Northern Ireland.

BriSCA F2 Stock Cars offer fast, spectacular race action, as drivers push, shove and hit one another out of the way, in pursuit of glory. 25 to 40 cars on a small 1/4 mile tarmac or shale tracks leads to very exciting racing.

For more info on BriSCA F2 at the please contact Paul Brown - Tel: 07971 565059 or paul@4fsmarketing.co.uk
or visit www.briscaf2.com

For more details about Oval Racing at the Autosport Show please visit www.walthamservices.co.uk

3/11/09 121 new Clive Marchant Photographs!!!
Clive Marchant takes brilliant photographs and has very kindly supplied me with a large number of examples of his work. Clive isn't interested in selling photo's and indeed doesn't have the time to deal with requests for prints etc. but is always interested in being commissioned and really wants the maximum number of people to be able to enjoy his artistic efforts. Every week or two I will be displaying a different meeting as seen through Clive's lens. This week we have the Ipswich meeting of 25th May 2009. You can see these pictures by clicking here.

Clive produces some amazing art work and more examples of his work can be found at www.gridart.deviantart.com 

3/11/09 News from Incarace....

FIREWORK SPECTACULAR ROUNDS OUT SEASON

On 8th November the hills of Cannock Chase will shake to the sound of one of the Midlands’ biggest firework displays this November as Hednesford Hills Raceway rounds off its season in style with the annual Firework Spectacular.

The firework display at Hednesford is always a highlight of the season, with the quarter mile raceway lit up by a truly spectacular sound and light show which will wow anyone who witnesses it.

It’s not just the sound of fireworks that the Chase will reverberate to, however, as the BriSCA F1 Stock Cars are back at their fastest UK venue. This is the only chance to see these 600bhp leviathans at Hednesford this year, and the rumble from their V8 engines will rival the fireworks for sound! Top drivers to look out for include World Champion Andrew Smith (1), newly crowned National Series champion Stuart Smith (390), Frankie Wainman Jnr (515) and possibly a couple of visitors from the Netherlands.

The smaller but just as spectacular BriSCA F2 Stock Cars will also be in attendance, and they have provided some great action on two occasions at Hednesford this year. Some of the formula’s top talents should be present, including former World Champion Mick Sworder (152) at BriSCA’s fastest venue. The F2s will be fresh from their massive Central League Final at Birmingham Wheels Raceway the night before, and this is sure to boost the entry as drivers travel to the Midlands venues from all over the UK.

It’s not just the fireworks that will be going bang, as the Bangers round off their season with the final of the Man of the Midlands Championship. The qualifying races take place at Birmingham the night before, and the champion will be decided on Sunday – already over 40 cars are booked in to compete in this two-day crash spectacular.

If that’s not mad enough, the Reliant Robins are back once again. It may seem hard to believe to some that these three-wheeled machines can actually race, but they are nothing short of stunning as they speed around the quarter mile with the intrepid drivers fighting for control. Who will roll over the most times?

Completing the absolutely packed line-up of action are the Ministox, who contest their annual Jack Cardno Memorial Trophy. It’s the last meeting of the season for these young racers, and three drivers can still win the points title, so great racing is assured.

Hednesford Hills Raceway has been staging stock car and banger racing for over 40 years, and the banked asphalt quarter-mile oval is the fastest of its kind in the UK. The track is situated just two miles from Cannock town centre – follow the brown tourist signs from the A5.

Gates open at 10.30am, with action getting underway at 1.30pm. Admission is just £13 for adults, £10 for concessions and £6 for children. But on this special night, entry for the Fireworks and Final races is available from 5.30pm, and is priced at just £6 for adults, £5 for concessions and £3 for children.

Trackside parking is available for £6 per car on a first come, first served basis – please arrive early if you wish to view the racing from your car – and a large free car park is provided outside the stadium.

The raceway features two covered grandstands and a variety of catering and sales points, and is one of the best-equipped short oval venues in the UK. Bring the whole family along for a day out to remember.

There is also action at Birmingham Wheels Raceway, in Bordesley Green, the Saturday night night before (7th November) – featuring huge numbers of BriSCA F2s in their Central League Championship, the small but fantastic Rebel Racers in their last meeting of the season, and the qualifying races for the Bangers Man of the Midlands Championship. Racing kicks off at 6.45pm.

2/11/09 The same the World over ? Read what 'Bleacher Report' has to say about the way NASCAR are running things.

2/11/09 First three in the F1 final at Bellevue on 1/11/09 were 390, 53, 21. This gave 390 Stuart Smith Junior the silver roof.

  29/10/09 Ever fancied having a Quad Bike with a V12 engine, no, Oh well you won't  want to look at this item from IMotor Magazine then...http://issue.imotormag.co.uk/1R4acb2e3c527c0012.cde/page/30

29/10/09 Click here for the Rebel November 2009 News Letter. (PDF) Many thanks to Sophie for send us a copy.

23/10/09 The November issue of Short Circuit Magazine is out now. Paul Huggett has a look at all the young guns that are coming into the sport. Jim Turner brings us the news from an 'explosive' F2 World Final. There's a great feature on Chris Harvey and his 2L Hot Rod Corrado. Very smart it is too. 'One of those days' has masses of pictures of race incidents that the drivers would probably have preferred to forget! Chris and David Whiting have an excellent double page article on the Saloon Stock Car World Final weekend that took place at Kings Lynn. The BriSCA F1's are covered in there own race action update feature. As ever the 'Short Track America' pages have lots of amazing looking cars and I must admit I'd love to visit some of the tracks like the Penn Cann Speedway that feature here. Don't forget that the mag. has adverts from the major promotions so you can plan your trips. As always the mag. is an excellent read, click the link below to get your subscription or single issue (or get it from many tracks). Click here to subscribe, or you can buy this issue, online . Don't forget that Short Circuit now comes out every month of the year.

20/10/09 Carlton Elliott is looking for some F2 Final winners from the past. Click here to see the list of the results that he requires and please send any response direct to Carlton at carlton.elliott@tiscali.co.uk  marked F2 final winners.

20/10/09 News from the Adrian Blackwell team....

"Championship Third To Cap A Great Season"


Colin Caserley photo.

Staines Stock Car driver Adrian Blackwell claimed third place in the season-long BriSCA F2 Whites & Yellows Championship at Northampton International Raceway on Sunday, and with a third place in the meeting consolation race capped off his best season to date at the Midlands venue.

Starting the championship finale race from pole position, as highest white grade points scorer over the season, Blackwell took the early lead but a combined attack from Luke Philips and Brett Townsend sent the Heathrow IT worker wide and allowed the duo to pass on the inside. As the tyres warmed up on the cold autumnal day Blackwell reeled the leading pair back in and a well-placed hit on Townsend saw him through for second. Chevy Mills caught and passed Blackwell with a couple of laps to go, and despite a last bend lunge making contact, Blackwell was unable to unseat the yellow-top and came home third to claim the final podium position.

The "Central League" semi-final, doubling as heat2, saw Blackwell gridded on the outside of the third row. As the green flag dropped second row starter Mike Green failed to get going and Blackwell had nowhere to go except push the blue-top the entire length of the home straight. Once able to move by Blackwell set about making up lost ground, but just two laps later the engine coughed and died leaving him to coast to the safety of the centre green. Inspection in the pits following the race revealed nothing more serious than a broken rotor arm, which was soon fixed in readiness for the next race.

The consolation saw Blackwell take an early lead and build up a straight-length advantage by the mid-point. Just a lap past half-way a caution flag for the stranded, and severely bent, Keith Walding car saw Blackwell’s advantage wiped out as the field was bunched up. A good restart allowed Blackwell to keep the lead for a couple more laps, but Darren Clark in the quick Adam Rubery car and superstar Nigel Green muscled their way by, demoting Blackwell to third at the finish.

The meeting final saw Blackwell under attack twice in the opening stages, the second time getting very side-ways in turn 4 and narrowly missing a spinning car. Being forced out in to the rubber "marbles" around the outside of the turn, and gathering up the car to avoid spinning himself, slowed Blackwell’s momentum and dropped him down the field. The remainder of the race was relatively uneventful and Blackwell came home in one piece with a finish outside the top ten.

19/10/09 Many thanks to Markus for the results from the Dutch Open that was held at Lelystad on the 18th October.

F 1 :
H 217 Ron Kroonder
H 399 J.de Bruin
H 007 Dave Schaap
H 240 H.J. Ronitz
H 247 Gary Castell
H 12 E.v.d.Berg

F2 :
H 24 Willie Peeters
H 25 Henk Peeters
H 33 Sebaastian Vohwinkel
UK 606 A.Palmer
H 4 Roy Maessen
UK 677 Chris Roots

19/10/09  Clive Marchant was at Ipswich last night for the 1300 Stock car World final which was won by car 6 Simon Welton. Thanks to Clive for the news and the picture. I now have some more of Clive's excellent pictures of this event and you can see them by clicking here. As mentioned earlier Clive has a great interest in developing his art work and you can see more of his at Clive produces some amazing art work and more examples of his work can be found at www.gridart.deviantart.com .

15/10/09 Carlton Elliott has kindly sent us the latest  points totals list (Click here for the list) for the F2 2009 Central League. You can also see the winners list by clicking here.

14/10/09  Mark Giles has asked if anyone who has any photos of the 1973 British superstox final from Ipswich (won by Bob Perry) could get in touch as he needs them for an article that he is writing. (Please get in touch via me by clicking here)

11/10/09
The Oct/Nov issue of Wheelspin, the official Spedeworth Magazine, is out now. Thirty two pages jammed with news and pictures of Spedeworth events. Read about some of the Spedeworth formulas that will be appearing on non Spedeworth tracks in the next couple of months. Don't miss your chance to save money on your Banger World Final tickets, there is a form for advanced tickets in this issue. There's also a comprehensive preview of the World Final meeting. Kevin Wegg contributes some interesting views about whether it's legitimate for a back marker to take out a leader. Daniel Rushden brings us all the information from the very eventful Superstox World Final. 'The Racing Pages' brings news of who won what and where. Paul Hugget ponders why some drivers have limited racing programmes. Pickup the mag. at a Spedeworth track. The next issue is due out on 28th November.

10/10/09 The October Edition of Unloaded 7.3 Magazine is out now. Masses of F2 top level meetings to cover in this issue. There's the F2 World semi's and the World Final itself. Pictures, facts and interesting inside information galore, it's all in this issue.  Successful driver suspended for alleged tyre rule infringement. 2010 Saloon Stockcars Championship dates announced. The end of the season may be approaching but 'For what we're about to receive' still has lots of meetings to bring to our attention. The Saloons had their National Championship and by the account it was an eventful meeting.  If like me you like BriSCA F2's and/or 2L Stock Saloons (not to mention ministox) pick the mag up at a track or subscribe, see my magazine page for details. 

7/10/09 STOCK MARKET 09 – NORTHAMPTON INTERNATIONAL RACEWAY

SUNDAY 22nd NOVEMBER – START TIME 10a.m.

Plans are now underway for the annual Stock Market event taking place at NIR. We are expecting a strong turnout this year for both buyers and sellers as people are certainly trying to beat the credit crunch and pick up a bargain or two.

Why not start putting saleable items to one side ready to make a few pounds for Christmas or simply more money to spend on racing! It is amazing what people will buy, you may consider it useless but to a new racer it could be a worthy purchase.

Last year we opened the pit gates later to reduce the amount of inter trader selling and this worked very well giving buyers the opportunity to snap up the bargains when the gates open to the public at 10a.m. on the dot.

This market is open to any formula, feel free to bring along your car and place it up for sale where you will have genuine people looking to buy all in one place.

If you are building a new racer over the winter, come along and visit trade stands and pick up all your hardware so that you can keep busy in the garage over the closed season, instead of waiting for parts to arrive in the post.

It is also an ideal opportunity to purchase Christmas gifts for your racing partners. With plenty of racewear stands in attendance plus traders selling all types of merchandise, lots of excellent gifts to fill those stockings

There will be lots to see and do, and as always the NFR Two Seater FI’s will be in attendance and for anyone who hasn’t taken part in the white knuckle experience now is your chance – blow away the cobwebs with the NFR team!

The track will be available for anyone to test a car (any formula) simply sign in at the pit office (cost £15 per driver).

Food outlets will be open during the day along with the bar.

We understand that people are on a budget so we have held Stand Prices for yet another year. Sellers can click here for a list of prices, and the gate price is still only £5 with children and OAP’s free. Alternatively if you have any questions you can email StockMarket2009@aol.com or call 07855 442 667

Please note the date for this event is the 22nd November. Gates open to sellers at 9.30a.m. for set up and 10a.m to buyers.

28/9/09 Congratulations to the new Superstox World Champion. 60 Ben Marjoram took the title at Wimbledon Stadium last night (27th September).  He was followed across the line by 151 Nick Smith,  23 Matt Carberry, 391 Jonathan Fields, 51 Colin Aylward and 36 Kevin Croxon. I understand that Jason Cooper may have suffered a stuck throttle.

26/9/09


Thanks to the reader who sent in this picture that shows just one of
the many crashes that marred the National Hot Rod meeting.

The National Hot Rods were on at Ipswich this evening and it was an eventful event (for this read there was quite a bit of contact!) Heats went to 500, 3 & 65. The final was cut short but first across the line was 74 James O'Shea.

The F1 Final at Skegness this evening went to 390 (Stuart Smith Jnr) followed home by 141 & 464.

23/9/09 See what the Lancashire Telegraph has to say about Micky Brennan winning the F2 World Title.

21/9/09 Click here to see my pictures from Northampton on 20/9/09

19/9/09 The BriSCA F1 World Final was run tonight at Kings Lynn and the first six across the line were 391, 515, 2, 21, 55, 97. The highest places non UK driver was H29 at 10th. So the World title has been retained by Andy Smith, well done to him.

15/9/09
Cars, Stars and ACTION

 The ultimate Motorsport experience

 Get your Motorsport year off to a flying start by visiting The Oval Racing Experience at the NEC Birmingham.

 The Oval Racing Experience takes place on Saturday 16th and Sunday 17th January 2010, in Halls 9 and 10 of Autosport International, and covers all aspects of grass roots motorsport including oval, autograss, drag and off-road racing.

 With its own Main Visitor Entrance and easy access to the Live Action Arena Paddock, regular exhibitors already booked for 2010 include Spedeworth Motorsport, Incarace, The National Autograss Sports Association, Santa Pod, BriSCA F1 and F2.

 The ever popular Oval Racing Spectaculars held in the Live Action Arena on Saturday at 6pm and Sunday at 4.45 pm will include:

BriSCA F1 Stock Cars
National Autograss Class 7s and 8s
Hot Rods
Stock Rods
BriSCA F2s

The Oval Racing Experience and the Oval Racing Spectacular are integral parts of Autosport International 2010, which is now recognised as the biggest motorsport show of its kind in the world.

Check our website for full details:  www.walthamservices.co.uk

Tickets for the show can be booked online at www.autosport-international.com  or by calling the ticket hotline on 0844 579 3188. Please quote ‘Oval’ when calling if you would like to attend the Oval Racing Spectacular. 

13/9/09 The new F2 World Champion is 968 Micky Brennan. The first three across the line were 968, 854, 38. Gordon Moodie and Rob Speak went out early on.

27/8
/09

The second issue of ‘Oval Track Classic’ is out. As soon as you open the pages of this issue you’ll be impressed by the masses of colour and black & white pictures from yester year. 1972 was a crucial year for the Hot Rods, read what happened that year and see the pictures of the many and varied types of car that were running as Hot Rods. Be prepared to be amazed by the number of spectators at the meetings. ‘Lost tracks and stadiums’ takes a look at Aghadowey. Graham Brown continues with the popular ‘collectors corner’. The ‘Classic Modifieds’ are a ‘modern formula that utilises older body shells, the cars look superb and there is an in depth look at the formula in this issue. Handled correctly I’m sure that this is a formula we could all be seeing a lot more. Over the next few issues follow the building of an Historic Saloon Stock, you may be motivated to have a go yourself! Andrew Welch reminds us of the late great Spence Morgan, a legend of the west country. Those of you that have been going to Spedeworth meeting for as long as me will remember the name Roger Fenning but did you know all about his musical exploits, read why he was also a ‘guitar hero’. Once again this is just a flavour of the great article in this issue. Whether you were there to see it all unfold those years ago and it’s trip down memory lane or whether you missed it all first time around, you will find this magazine absolutely fascinating. As I mentioned previously Oval Track Classic is more like a book, with so much content more than a magazine but available at a magazine price (cover price £3.80 or for a UK subscription price, for the four quarterly issues, of £15.20) Click here to order.

5/8/09 The August edition of
Autograss Review is out now.  The next issue is due out during 15th August. Nasa issues immediate tyre rule changes that could save competitors money. Details for two meetings at Belle Vue finalised. Bans for two drivers are under appeal. The technical round-up makes fascinating reading for for anyone interested in what's under the skin of the cars. What is the future of the 'mini' in Class 1? The Stock Hatch Nationals has a full report. A report from Evesham covers the Stu Nicholls Memorial Meeting and the all Ireland meeting from Carlow is another of the meetings covered. F600 gets a 'half term' report. For a cover price of £2.50 this has to be brilliant value. For details of where to subscribe etc to Autograss Review click here.

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14/6/09 Great weather, great racing, what more could you want. The meeting today at Aldershot had the lot, the Superstox British Championship was won by 482 Jason Cooper on the last bend of the last lap. 602 Dale Fewings had led the race and looked to be going to hold on for the win but Jason Cooper, last years British Champ., didn't want to have to change the sign writing and timed his hit to perfection. 116 John Smith had a great meeting winning his two heats and coming third in the championship, he looks certain to be a red grade next grading period. The Championship was only open to the top 30 points scorers on the day, so the heats were hard fought over and I felt that this greatly added to the excitement. Even with a few people like Pip Williams, Steve Jackson (who I understand recently had an engine problem) and Gary Sparkes missing, there was a brilliant quality field of over 40 cars, this really shows the current strength of the superstox formula. I can't wait to see 'em again.

Click here to see my pictures from this meeting.New

Superstox Aldershot 14th June
Heat 1 116, 383, 22, 40, 36, 69
Heat 2 116, 60, 482, 124, 602, 21
Heat 3 602, 383, 36, 151, 483, 482
British Championship 482, 602, 116, 60, 36, 383, 22, 51, 151, 118

In the 2L Hot Rod final 75 Chris Crane took a hard knock after coming to grief on some oil, we understand that he was taken to hospital for a check up and hope that he is all OK.



2.0 Hot Rods
Race 1 268 Lee Munday, 503, 75, 266. 303, 10
Race 2 10 Samantha Holland, 268, 304, 162, 503, 75
Final 503 Chris Harvey, 303, 308, 60, 197, 10

17/5/09  Dry conditions, great formulas, amazingly competitive racing, over superstox on the track at the time, 2L hot rods often three abreast and team Bangers, this was Ipswich. Click here for some of my pictures, if you require free copies just email  me.

Superstox places



First Heat 161, 51, 151, 124, 69, 36
Second Heat 151, 383, 391, 36, 483, 23
Final 391, 151, 483, 36, 376, 51

2L Hot Rods

Heat 1
68 Lee Munday, 101 Ian Sutton, 30 Martin Codling, 122 Richard Norman, 8 Damon Wellman, 503 Chris Harvey

Heat 2
266 Matthew Wells, 101 Ian Sutton, 8 Damon Wellman, 300 Tristan Jackson, 30 Martin Codling, 303 Gavin Botfield

Final
911 Malcolm Blackman, 101 Ian Sutton, 268 Lee Munday, 303 Gavin Botfield, 110 Jason Wilks, 304 Danny Fiske

16/4/09 The inaugural European Late Model Series took place over Easter weekend, on 12-13 April 2009, at Warneton International Speedway, Belgium. Click here for a full report and the results.

11/4/09 Despite the weather trying to dampen everyones spirits a large crowd enjoyed some superb racing at Northampton of Good Friday. All three formulas had large turnouts of cars. Click on the picture below to see a few of my other pictures from this event.
Northampton 10th April 2009

The first four in the F2 Final were 20, 779, 154, 324, 886 (Good to see a yellow top winning a final). The National Hot Rod final had  305, 41, 210, 427 at the front.

Autospeed have two more great meetings lined up for the Easter weekend....
Easter Monday 13th April 2009, Smeatharpe Stadium - BriSCA F2 Stock Cars, Saloon Stock Cars, Bangers (Easter Hop Trophy plus Chained Pairs)
and
Easter Sunday 12th April 2009 United Downs Raceway - National Bangers BONESHAYKER (under 1800cc), Saloon Stock Cars (Western Championship), Ministox

27/03/09 Spedeworth have announced that the 2L Stock Cars will be making their debut on the shale at Manchesters' Belle Vue Stadium on Sunday October 11th at 3pm in support of the BriSCA F1 British Championship.

The meeting will count for National Points. There will be no prize money but all drivers will receive start money for this event.

8/03/09 I have recently been lucky enough to get my hands on a copy of the Spedeworth 'Complete Guide to Racing 2009'. This is much more than just a Spedeworth fixture list, although it certainly does contain a list of the fixtures. However it also contains a mass of information like breakdowns of meetings by formulas and series. This is a book you'll want to keep handy all through 2009, pick up your FREE copy at the Spedeworth tracks.

24/2/09 Stoxworld have announced the details of how to subscribe for the 2009 season, click here to read the details.

10/1/09 View my pics from the NEC by clicking here

29/12/08 Over Christmas I obtained a copy of Richard Neil's latest book. "Those were the days... Hot Rod & Stockcar Racing in Britain in the 1980's" was not only a book that I couldn't put down but one that I'm sure is going to appeal to a very wide range of readers. There's a huge number of brilliant colour photo's that are accompanied by masses of interesting insights into the sport in the 80's. If like me, you may have been there, and so much enjoy reminiscing, or you may want to see why this period is looked back on as being so great. For the casual reader there are a huge number of photo's from each year of the decade and for the 'anorak' there are lists of title winners. This is a real value for money book and whether you read it from cover to cover, dip into it or use it as a wonderful reference work I feel sure that you will enjoy it. The book is available for £13.99 inc postage from RJ Neil, PO Box 1670, Croydon, Surrey, CR9 1TU or online from www.ovaltrack.co.uk .

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22/10/08 Mike Greenwood is pleased to announce that the 2009 F1 Stock Car Calendar is now available.



Now in its ninth year of production the high quality large format full colour Calendar brings you some sensational UK and Dutch stock car images. UK drivers featured this year include 1, 4, 12, 13, 19, 33, 53, 60, 84, 91, 97, 100 Tony Neal, 105, 133, 141, 149, 189, 195, 198, 208, 212, 249, 260, 265, 283, 285, 294, 302, 304 Dave Mellor, 327, 337, 383, 391, 401, 434, 446, 462, 502, and 515. The 2009 Calendar has a number of themes – New Cars, First Time Red Tops, the Stuart Smith Junior and Joe Booth coming together at Northampton, Bad Weather woes, Andrew Smith’s World Final win, Retiring Drivers and Veterans of the Raceways.

You can order your 2009 Calendar now from Photostox (Dept. ROV), 17 Willingham Close, Sothall, Sheffield. S20 2PD. The cost is £15.00 by post (cheque’s made payable to Mike Greenwood) or for £12 from around the tracks. 

 If you have any Oval Racing news please post it to me and I will include it. Please mail to rogerv@btinternet.com.

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