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13th
April, Arena Essex Rolling Thunder Show
Report from Paul Jones
The
Midgets put on a fantastic show under the lights of Arena
Essex Raceway on Saturday evening, Daz Rycroft taking the
honours in the Casa Challenge Cup Feature Final. The former
kart racer increased his pace in the ex Stuart Haynes VW Venom
as the evening reached its climax. Rycroft headed the field
as early as the second lap in the feature race after passing
Nikki Ricketts and held a half a lap lead. Behind Rycroft
a seven car battle was developing dropping to six when Gary
Bonner retired with engine problems. Andy Collins then started
to use the outside line with great success which Bonner had
been using prior to retiring and made the break from the other
star drivers. With four laps to go it looked like we were
in for a grandstand finish but third place man Andy Smith
clipped a back maker rolling spectacularly into the wall bringing
out the red flags. Smith walked away from the incident but
the car was severely damaged. The results were then taken
from the last completed lap, Rycroft being the victor from
Collins and a shaken Smith in third. Harry Lowe came home
fourth with Rob Sayell having one of his quietest meetings
for some time in fifth.
Heat
1: 1st Gary Bonner 2nd Neil Clarke 3rd Andy Collins 4th Rob
Sayell 5th Andy Bilby 6th Harry Lowe 7th Daz Rycroft 8th
Andrew Smith.
Heat
2: 1st Bonner 2nd Rycroft 3rd Clarke 4th Sayell 5th Barry
Goldsby 6th Smith 7th Lowe 8th Collins.
Final:
1st Rycroft 2nd Collins 3rd Smith 4th Lowe 5th Sayell 6th
Clarke 7th David Smith 8th Nicky Rickett.
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