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| Added: 01 May 2012 |
Category: 2012 Oval Racing |
| 2012 - #12 - Stoke - 28/4/12 |
Another trip away and another venue I haven't been at before as well as my first glimpse of classic banger racing and V8 Hot Stox. When the trip was first booked it looked as thought it would make it the first meeting I'd miss at Tullyroan, but as it has worked out I missed the last meeting at Nuttscorner Oval instead.
On to Stoke though, given the weather throughout the week, the shale surface at Stoke looked in fantastic condition, although the same perhaps couldn't be said about the pits. I always enjoy watching the tooz on shale, while tar racing has become chequebook racing in recent years, shale hasn't suffered the same fate of being dominated by circuit cars with bumpers stuck to them, and you see a greater variety of shapes of cars taking wins, as well as a varity of winners.
Twenty one cars took to the track for the opening heat, which seen a win for Chris Bradbury, Dutch visitor Danny Van Wamelen had been flying, but tangled got tangled up, Mickey Brennan was announced as black flagged with several laps to go for what looked like a puncture, but the black flag wasn't actually shown to him until the last lap, it does sort of beg the question why exclude someone on a safety issue if they then continue to finish the race and thus the issue has passed.
In the second heat Daz Shaw took the win and he went on to take the meeting final. An early stoppage in the Grand National gave him a chance to get through the field and was into the top ten when he went into the armco on the outside of turn 2 and that ended his race.
I hadn't seen the V8 Hot Stox before and I know very little about them, so like any formula that I know nothing about, I spent the night watching the progress of the world champion and Pheobe Wainman, as the only other name I recognised. I'd imagine by the fact ms Wainman is a white roof, she hasn't been in the class long, she certainly looked quick at times and well able for the compeition. The World Champion took one of the heats.
The bangers becmae a bit mystifying to me, 5 heats in total, with what seemed to be a three way split of cars for heats 1, 2 and 3 and then whatever was left raced on heats 4 and 5, and some of them raced in heats four and five. Maybe this makes sense to banger fans, but an explaination to the rest of us wouldn't have gone a miss. It was a Pre-70 meeting, and other than the meeting final, it seemed a bit more like classic hot rods than classic bangers in comparision to the big heavy hits we're used to at Nuttscorner. The final was a much better event with around 50 cars on track and as the last event of the night it went into a DD, when there was what seemed to me, to be some crazy attempts to push start cars on the track while there was activity around nearby cars. It's probably best just to say pre 70 bangers aren't my cup of tea.
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