An Eventful Friday Evening

Race Results: Friday 12th August

1300 Stock Cars
Heat 1: 501, 95, 67, 715, 668, 638, 18, 411, 968, 6
Heat 2: 126, 411, 112, 414, 638, 77, 715, 501, 18, 46
Final 715, 67, 668, 501, 126, 6, 638, 411, 46, 18

CC Rods
Heat 1: 263, 750, 28, 337, 71, 69, 170, 63
Heat 2: 91, 263, 71, 98, 289, 69, 170, 750, 337, 28
Final: 750, 71, 170, 337, 28, 69, 289, 91, 76, 63

Ministox
Heat 1: 27, 6, 84, 167, 145, 388, 14, 480, 42, 7
Heat 2: 6, 145, 27, 7, 84, 388, 14, 167, 136, 858
Final: 145, 84, 7, 6, 14, 27, 167, 3, 136, 484

An action packed night of racing at Lochgelly Raceway seen plenty of entertainment on track for those that came along.

The 1300 Stock Cars, Ministox and CC Rods all provided he action, with all three formula having various talking points, with a few on the fine edge of the laws!!

The 1300 Stock Cars kicked off proceedings and no sooner was the green flag out, a complete restart was called for as Josh Machin found himself short of a wheel on the opening lap, which sent him hard into the wall in the process! Once the race got underway, it was Peter Marioni that found himself out in front, being chased down by the pack behind. A further stoppage would be called for as Mike Courts found himself embedded in the armco after a hefty push by Danny Whyte. The race again got underway, and it was fellow northern based driver Ally Strachan that would be the driver to overcome Marioni up front, whilst Lochgelly driver Craig Haxton took an excellent third place finish. Heat 2 of the night for the 1300 Stock Cars was a little less eventful, but nevertheless, provided some great racing, as the bumpers were put to use around the raceway, and throughout the race. Danny Whyte stormed to a convincing victory in heat 2, whilst Brant West and Chloe Baird rounded out the top three. Chloe Baird has been showing great pace of late, and will be chapping at the door for a win in the not too distant future. The meeting final seen another great race, with European Champion Kyle Hegg charging from the rear of the grid to take an excellent, yet somewhat comfortable race win. Craig Haxton looked to be having one of his best nights of the season, as he took away another podium finish, albeit by the finest of margins, this time in second place, before Fraser Clark snatched third place on the last lap of the race, with Danny Whyte and Ally Strachan just missing out.

The CC Rods were again with us in great numbers for the second week in succession. The ‘non-contact’ formula seen a lively first race of the night, a race that started with 20+ cars on track, and seen only 8 cars complete race distance! Midway through the race, Scott Ewans seemed to oversteer coming out of turn 4, to be collected by the oncoming Tam Brown and Dale Burt, with Brown and Burt retiring to the infield, and Ewans spinning as a result, ending up against the armco on the home straight. As the pack approached quickly, drivers all tried to avoid the car, though Keiron McIntyre would find himself sharply braking, and caught from behind, whilst James Robertson found his car rollover onto it’s roof in the melay! Dean McGill took an assured race win, with Raymond Brown and Mirran Adams taking the further podium places. Heat 2 would see a race with somewhat less damage than the first. Kenny Pitcaithly broke away from his yellow grade starting position and opened up a massive lead to the rest of the pack. Heat 1 winner Dean McGill was again in good form, and looked to potentially have the speed to challenge Pitcaithly in the closing stages, however, backed off somewhat in the remaining laps as he thought he was already in the lead of the race! Emma Kirk continued to show a determined character, as she fought to an excellent third place finish. The meeting final would see Raymond Brown take the flag first, having overcome Dean McGill in the closing stages of the race, taking advantage of McGill running wide on turns 1 and 2. An altercation between McGill and Brian Allen as the red flags came out, would see both drivers disqualified from the race, promoting Emma Kirk into second place, and Ian Christie into third place.

The Ministox seen 19 cars take to the track in what has been a busy period for the formula, with meetings around the country coming thick and fast. Heat 1 of the night seen the in form Robbie Scott take victory ahead of the consistently improving Hamish Plenderleith, and Robbie Armit. Heat 2 would see Plenderleith go one better, taking an excellent race win, his first from the blue grade. Charlie Hardie crossed the line in second place, though found himself docked a couple of places for jumping the original start, promoting Rachel Kidd and Robbie Scott into second and third place finishes. There was a further misdemeanor as the red flags came out, with Demi Ritchie and Jake Wilson being in close contention as the reds came out, though, Wilson didn’t take kindly to the attention of Ritchie, and taking matters into his own hands as he spun the 14 car around after they crossed the line, with Wilson then not permitted to take further action in the race meeting. The meeting final would see another excellent race from the youngsters, as the superstar drivers battled their way through the field. There would be no catching Rachel Kidd however, as she took a convincing race victory. Robbie Armit and Charlie Hardie were never far away from each other throughout the race, and despite a last lap effort from Hardie to dislodge the 84 car, it would be Armit that took second place from Hardie.

We are back in action this Saturday, with a 5.30pm start time. Please note however, that the spectator gates won’t be open until 4pm.

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