2000

Allen Herbert took his first major GP Midget title, when he won the formula's Southern Championship at the weekend. Rob Sayell was runner up and won both supporting heats. Anthony Brewer continued his recent success finishing third in the main event.

The 20-lap championship event was interrupted twice with stranded cars on the racing line. The first caution came on lap 4 when Chris Phillips spun out of second place, Peter Bourne and Brian Gough being caught up in the incident. Early leader Herbert held on for the win, despite a second caution on lap 12 when Phillips spun again on the same bend. Brewer who held second place for 16 laps was pipped to the post by Rob Sayell with a last bend dive up the inside the latter, braking hard to avoid hitting leader Herbert up the back at the flag!

Rob Sayell won both support races by a comfortable margin extending his driver's championship lead to 56 points ahead of Mark Hodges who finished 4th in the main event and third in Race 2.

Harry Sayell also got an unexpected drive at the weekend, when the P & K car's intended driver, Gordon Pooley, broke down en route. Sayell Senior, racing a front-engined car, for the first time finished 4th in Race 3 and commented afterwards that he "could well be converted" after 22 years of "rear-engined" driving.

Race 1 (Southern Championship): 1st Allen Herbert, 2nd Rob Sayell, 3rd Anthony Brewer, 4th Mark Hodges, 5th Neil Clarke 6th, Gary Jones. 7th Steve Piggins, 8th Harry Sayell 9th John Bilby.

Race 2: 1st Rob Sayell, 2nd Anthony Brewer, 3rd Mark Hodges, 4th Allen Herbert, 5th Neil Clarke, 6th Gary Jones, 7th Harry Sayell, 8th Steve Piggins, 9th Chris Phillips, 10th Brian Gough.

Race 3: 1st Rob Sayell, 2nd Allen Herbert, 3rd Anthony Brewer, 4th Harry Sayell, 5th Neil Clarke, 6th Gary Jones, 7th Steve Piggins, 8th Gary Granger 9th John Bilby, 10th Chris Phillips, 11th Brian Gough.