Got some interesting fixtures for Dave this year. He's qualified for the
BBA Supreme Championship at Mildenhall in April for 4th place at
Hednesford 2Ltr World and has been invited to join the UK team for the
UK v the Continent, the first leg in Belgium on April 13 with the home
leg at Ipswich on 5 July, so if you fancy a bit of continental
bangering come to Belgium with us!
Another notable meeting will be the Barry Collins Memorial, 27 April,
at
the brand new track being built at Fleet. Our very own Gonzo is up
there at the moment working to get the track done along with Eddie.
Recent
Meets
Well done
to everyone for all their hard work over the winter, we
haven't had much of a break.
The
Winter Open
was great fun despite the cold with Dave taking a fresh mondeo estate
and giving it a thoroughly hard time! He managed to snap it
in
the DD before having a piston break for freedom out the side of the
engine.
Andre made the trip up to the London Open and did brilliantly in the
racing to qualify for the final but the main topic of conversation has
been the journey up and back! His Mk2 Granada Limo's geabox
gave
up the ghost on the A303 but they still managed to make it to Wimbledon
(thanks to Dawn being in the AA!) Getting home was another
challenge as the AA wouldn't bring it home. They sold the
granny
in the pits and Woody brought the banger back but
everyone
else was stranded. At 10.30 at night they were wandering
round
Wimbledon (as you do) where they spotted a Bluebird for sale.
Lurch did his bit and lo and behold they bought it, jumped in
and
drove back to Cornwall. I'm so proud . . .
Last meeting was the 2Ltr at St Day with Dave, Andre, Lurch and Kaylee
out in the bangers along with Shrek who raced for the first time at St
Day. Bam did his first meeting in the ministock too.
Was a
pretty quiet affair all round til the last race when the team had a
mass effort to finish off Spoons dead car! Highlight of the
day,
especially for Shrek who'd never been hit that hard, but just opened
the post and they've all got an official
warning. Even Dave
who wasn't even in his car at the time got a "formal warning for
irresponsible driving"
What a joke! Can see the fixtures list changing all over
again . . . lol
25 March 2008
Photos from Mildenhall and Boneshayker
in the galleries . . .
19 April 2008
Photos from Belgium online in
the galleries
The land surrounding the track is used
by bikes, quads and 4x4s for events as well as the obvious race
meetings on the track so how this is not a community resource I don't
know.
If you can help in any way contact The Renegades
or Autospeed.
Even
if it's just an email to say you
don't agree with the sale, all help would be appreciated. The
history of the track and surrounding land would also be interesting.
More updates to come . . . .
2 May 2008
The
sale of the land at United Downs has been postponed . . . for now.
When the new Unitary Council for Cornwall comes in to effect the
track and surrounding land could still be sold off.
Roger
Hore has started a petition online, to save motor sports at the site,
please sign it to show your support for Cornish Motorsport.
Autospeed have a meeting with the Council on Tuesday to discuss the future of the site.
12 October 2008
Well
done Spoons . . . .World Champ!!
Cornwall
has it's own motorsport World Champion . . .
On Sunday
12
October at Hednesford Hills Raceway in the west midlands, Dave Spooner
of Four Lanes, won the National Banger 2 Litre World
Championship. The
grid consisted of the top qualifiers from tracks all over the UK in
various cars including cavaliers, mondeos, primeras and
bluebirds.
Dave drew pole position on the huge grid and managed to weave
through the back markers and dead cars whilst being chased down by the
rest of the pack, in a thrilling world final. Second place
went to 208
Jimmy Randall from Essex, third 361 Chris Walden from Skegness.
It's
a fantastic result for the Cornish driver who's been the mainstay at
United Downs Raceway over the years, being track champion for a number
of years and also last year winning the overall points championship at
Autospeed for both United Downs and Smeatharpe in Devon.
News
of
his win travelled fast with racing at Smeatharpe and Cornish track,
Westworld being interrupted to announce his win. It has been
well
received throughout the banger racing community as Spoons is well known
for the incredible hard work he puts in to his racing, made especially
difficult by being based in Cornwall and the amount of travelling he
has to do.
Dave,
who owns Cornwall Autogas at Longdowns, is
delighted with the win and is now entitled to wear the much coveted
gold roof of a world champion. Along with ttwo teams of
Renegades, he
will be racing at Teamarama at Smeatharpe on 26 October, so he's
already building another car!
The
next meeting at United Downs will be this Sunday including
Bangerstocks, BRISCA F2 stock cars and ministocks.
Video
of Hednesford
From
the restart . . . Lurch is in the mondeo estate and Dave in
the
saloon. Unfortuntately my videoing skills went out the window
at
the end when Dave slid out towards the parked cars on the very last
bend!!!
