NEWSLETTER JUNE 2008
Things are hotting up at Skeggy in June with several events for all formulae, please take a minute to read what’s going on at the Funcoast.

Plans are taking shape for YOUR Speedweekend in June, you can stay and camp in the field (no fee) and we have arranged for the Bar to be open late with music and hopefully a fun weekend. The pit gates open at 1-30pm on Saturday, sorry no access before then.

Please get your Sponsor form along with the money back to the office ASAP so the details can go in the programme

TSR Bangers
We at Skeggy recognize the high fuel costs needed to travel to race and with that in mind from the 19th June and for the remainder of the year we will NOT be charging the £15 racing fee for TSR Bangers. Infact at the following meetings we will pay you to race, with £10 travel money.
3rd July, 17th July, 29th July, 5th August, 7th August, 19th August, 26th August,

We will review the situation at the end of the year.
Thanks for your support.

Carnival Night Saturday 19th July 6-30pm
On this night Channel 5 will be filming the last in a series of sports as an alternative to the Olympics called Rory & Paddy vs The UK. Taking part in the Caravan race will be Rory McGrath and Paddy McGuiness.

We are now taking bookings for this event and will pay £30 per driver, we would like caravans to be painted up with a flag on representing different countries, when you book in we can sort out which country you wish to represent.
There will be a kids fancy dress parade with awards to the best outfit, please dress your cars up and your Granny and enter them into the parade.

TSR Funcoast Grand National points
361 Chris Walden 98 £100
250 Mark Ginders 41 70
390 David Gibson 39 60
939 Steven Lewis 37 45
77 Russell Gill 33 25
333 James Cooke 30
247 Julian Overton 29
400 Roland Bullock 26

TSR Bangers W & Y
808 Jason Buckland 98 £50
888 Lloyd Stark 45 30
949 Dave Coupland 39 20
400 Roland Bullock 39
390 David Gibson 36
876 Neil Baxter 33
644 Luke Etheridge 26
178 Mark Cooke 25
996 Mark Pealing 21
509 Richard Colk 15

Skegness Track Championship
361 Chris Walden 131 £100
390 David Gibson 79 70
333 James Cooke 79 60
876 Neil Baxter 75 45
808 Jason Buckland 64 25
400 Roland Bullock 39
939 Steven Lewis 37
300 Tony Cooke 36
6 Ronnie Bennett 36
77 Russell Gill 33

TSR Banger Bumpers
It is pleasing to report that the scrutineers are now fairly happy that where drivers are using the optional front bumper on their cars for TSR Bangers, they are being constructed of steel to the correct specification. However, there have been some issues with the way that the bumpers are being mounted which need to be addressed. As a guide, the bumpers should only extend 6 to 8 inches along the chassis rail for mounting purposes. Because of the differing layout of the chassis rails on different types of cars, we cannot give a strict measurement that must to be complied with and that will work properly on all cars. Therefore, a certain amount of discretion must be applied by drivers when building cars and a similar view will be taken by scrutineers to ensure that bumpers are safely and securely mounted but that they are not being used as a form of brace for the structure of the front of the car. Be sensible!

Micro BangerRods
The following dates feature 12th June, 19th June, 17th July, 19th August, 18th Sept, Hondas are not allowed.
The heat & final money and trophies are the same as regular TSR Bangers. We will compile a points chart and there will be trophies for the top three points scorers at the end of the season.

Points upto & including 29-5-08
361 Chris Walden 76
581 Simon Fixter 55
229 Lee Coupland 52
256 Mark Ginders 45
247 Julian Overton 35
282 Bobby Daniels 30
869 Sam Steele 7
96 Amber Harbord 4

Ladies racing comes to Skegness with a few dates for the ladies, including a speed weekend. 14th June, 15th June, 7th August, with prize money and trophies, some of these dates are in front of really large crowds so a good chance to enjoy some racing.

Two Gold Roof qualifying rounds instead of the Semi Finals being run the Gold Roof will be on points two dates at Skegness are 3rd July and the last qualifying round on 5th August.

Fixtures TSR
Thurs 12th June 7-30 Skegness Micro BangerRods
Sat 14th June 6pm Skegness TSR Sponsors Challenge + TSR Ladies racing
Sunday 15th June 12 Skegness TSR Bangers Sponsors Challenge + Ladies racing
Thurs 19th June 7-30 Skegness Micro BangerRods Grand National Series rd 4, Summer Series rd1

Thurs 3rd July 7-30 Skegness TSR Bangers Gold roof Qualifier + Summer Series rd2
Thurs 10th July 7-30 Skegness TSR Bangers Summer Series rd3
Thurs 17th July 7-30 Skegness Micro BangerRods, Summer Series rd 4
Sat 19th July 6-30 Skegness TSR Bangers Carnival Night + Caravan race
Grand National rd 5
Tues 29th July 7-30 Skegness TSR Bangers Summer Series rd5 + GN rd 6

Tues 5th Aug 7-30 Skegness TSR Bangers Last Gold roof qualifying round +
Summer Series rd6 + GN rd 7
Thurs 7th Aug 7-30 Skegness TSR Ladies racing
Tues 19th Aug 7-30 Skegness Micro BangerRods UK Championship + GN rd 8
Mon 25th Aug 2pm Skegness Caravan race only
Tues 26th Aug 7-30 Skegness TSR Bangers Summer Series rd 7 double point
+Grand National double points rd 9

Thur 4th Sept 7-30 Skegness Summer Series Final
Thurs 11th Sept 7-30 Skegness TSR Bangers Grand National rd10
Thurs 18th Sept 7-30 Skegness MicroBangerRods

Thurs 30th Oct 7-30 Skegness TSR Bangers Grand National Series Final
Sunday 2nd Nov 2pm Skegness TSR Bangers + Caravan race

Bangers Skegness
Crashattack 4
Comes to Skeggy on August 12th (7-30pm). We always have a good turnout of cars and the spectators fill the place. Book your day off work now and get building cars for this super nights racing. Each driver who books in and races will receive £10 travel, the usual 6 merit awards for material and paint jobs get £20 + trophy and entertainer awards on every race which will be £20 + trophy. The final has £100 to the winner, and £50 to the winner of the DD.

Tues 22nd July 7-30 2L Bangers
Tues 12th Aug 7-30 2L Bangers Crashattack
Sun 24th Aug 2pm Unlimited Bangers Wreckfest
Sun 24th Aug 2pm Bangers 1500cc UK Championship
Sun 5th Oct 7-30 Bangers 1500cc Pam Storr Memorial

Mid week events are all paid travel money, and we pay the £5 per lap leader on the Final.

WRECKFEST
The only visit of the year from the Unlimited Bangers and a sponsor has put on £2000 for this days racing, to spread the money around we have come up with the enclosed package.

Heats will be paid £40-30-20

Final £100-60-40-2-0

DD £50

Oldest car £50 + Trophy
Longest car £50 + Trophy
Most damaged car £25 + Trophy
8 merit Awards @ £25 + Trophy
4 entertainer Awards @£25 + Trophy

Every driver who races will receive £20 travel money.

Please book in for this event 01754 811228

1300 Saloons
At Skeggy there will NOT be a charge for 1300 Saloons to race, infact on the following race dates we pay travel money to help towards the fuel costs, and we are committed to having a full season of 1300 Saloon Racing on the Superfast Tarmac.

3rd July, 17th July, 14th August, 24th August,

1300 Saloons Skegness Track Championship
27 Steve McMillan 110 £100 at end of season
673 John Moat 69 75
25 Stuart Hodson 64 50
473 Dean Moat 43 30
216 Daniel Booth 42 25
800 Scott Greenslade 41 20
08 Lee Green 40
33 Warren Porter 37
298 Andy Louth 33
191 Shaun McMillan 31


1300 Stock Cars Skegness Whites & Yellows
As predicted in the last newsletter, there have been some changes to the order in the whites and yellows series as a result of the May fixture although the drivers racing from white and yellow during the month didn’t put as much pressure on the leaders as they could have done! If the pace of change was slow in May, things will surely change more quickly in June when we have a series of back to back fixtures for the 1300s including the mid-June speedweekend and a few midweek excursions to the seaside. Having dropped back to yellow for June, 216 Daniel Booth could be the one to set the pace this month. Latest points are listed below:

No Driver Points Prize (at end of season) Grade next period
27 Steve McMillan 59 £100 SuperStar
216 Daniel Booth 42 £75 Yellow
800 Scott Greenslade 41 £50 Yellow
33 Warren Porter 37 £30 Red
30 Thomas Howard 31 £25 Blue
473 Dean Moat 29 £20 Blue
298 Andy Lowth 26 Blue
7 Ady Moden 17 Yellow
191 Shaun McMillan 16 Red
668 Rick Martin 8 Yellow
214 Thomas Yould 7 Yellow
09 Buster Ketteringham 6 Yellow
56 Rick Barker 4 White
156 Allan Watson 3 Yellow
215 Ben Yould 2 White
660 Daniel Mitchell 1 Yellow

As we can see, only 4 of the top ten drivers will be eligible to score in this series in May, so there should be plenty of changes taking place!

1300 Stock Car Funcoast Grand Prix
The Funcoast Grand Prix is the official track championship for 1300 Stock Cars at Skegness and works in a similar way to the BriSCA F1 National Series because only certain fixtures count towards the points. Most of the qualifying meetings are the midweek Summer sessions but the June speedweekend is a Funcoast Grand Prix round on both days so there are no excuses for not having a go! Two rounds have run so far and the current standings are as shown:

No Driver Points Prize (at end of series)
27 Steve McMillan 70 £150
673 John Moat 51 £75
25 Stuart Hodson 50 £65
800 Scott Greenslade 39 £55
473 Dean Moat 36 £40
216 Daniel Booth 34 £35
191 Shaun McMillan 31 £30
30 Thomas Howard 31 £25
120 Glen Dorling 28 £15
7 Ady Moden 17 £10
08 Lee Green 13
33 Warren Porter 7
214 Thomas Yould 7
298 Andy Lowth 7
660 Daniel Mitchell 7

English Championship
Because of the cancelled event at Easter the English Championship has been transferred to 14th & 15th June. This is a Speedweekend and we will do the qualifying on the Saturday and English Championship on the Sunday.
Prize fund for the English Championship will be £80--£60--£40—£20,

The Funcoast Grand Prix series has again been sponsored with qualifying rounds as listed. The £500 will be paid out as £150-- £75-- £65-- £55--£40--£35-£30-£25--£15--£10.

Skeggy Whites & Yellows a year long series with all meetings counting towards this series and drivers will score points whilst graded white or yellow , £300 fund will be split as follows; £100--£75--£50--£30--£25--£20

At every meeting the highest White & Yellow grade driver get £10, and we pay the £5 per lap leader money on the Final

Fixtures 1300 Saloons
Thurs 12th June 7-30 Skegness Gold Rood qf,
Sat 14th June 6pm Skegness Speedweekend, Funcoast 3
Sunday 15th June 12 Skegness Speedweekend, Funcoast 4
Thurs 19th June 7-30 Skegness Gold Roof qf

Thurs 3rd July 7-30 Skegness Funcoast qf 5
Thurs 17th July 7-30 Skegness Gold Roof qf

Thurs 14th Aug 7-30 Skegness Final Gold Roof QF
Thurs 24th Aug 2pm Skegness Gold Roof Championship
Thurs 28th Aug 7-30 Skegness Funcoast GP qf 6

Thurs 18th Sept 7-30 Skegness Funcoast GP Final

GT Hot Rods
A UK Speedweekend in June, with a new Sponsors Challenge Trophy for the highest point’s scorer over two days, plus a BIG prize fund.

Fixtures GT Hot Rods
Thurs 12th June 7-30 British qf 4
Sat 14th June 6pm UK Speedweekend
Sun 15th June 12 UK Speedweekend

Thurs 3rd July 7-30 British Final
Sun 27th July 1pm Buxton
Tues 29th July 7-30

Tues 19th Aug 7-30
Tues 26th Aug 7-30

Thurs 11th Sept 7-30

Sun 2nd Nov 2pm Gold Roof Championship

Junior Rods
Please book in for any event you intend to race at
Sat 14th June 6pm UK Speedweekend
Sun 15th June 12noon UK Speedweekend
Thur 19th June 7-30 Gold Roof qf

Thur 24th July 7-30

Thur 14th Aug 7-30
Tues 21st Aug 7-30 Gold Rood qf
Mon 25th Aug 2pm
Tues 26th Aug 7-30 Gold Roof qf

Thur 18th Sept 7-30 Gold Roof final qualifier
Sun 5th Oct 2pm Gold Roof Championship

Junior Rods Gold Roof
The first Gold Roof qualifier of the year for the Junior Rods was held on Whit Sunday at the Funcoast with the next rounds coming up soon on June 5th and June 19th. 20 drivers raced at the first qualifier with 12 of them scoring qualifying points as follows. Ben Gibson has started his defence of the top honour in Junior Rods in commanding fashion!

1 Ben Gibson 36
62 Shane Klyn 33
88 Lyndon Stark 25
202 Ryan Young 20
673 Shane Moat 19
325 Charlie Cole 18
399 Jonny Atkin 18
560 Steve Barker 18
4 David Scott 17
146 Lewis Holmes 10
714 Stuart Ellinor 2
888 Lewis Stark 2

UK Speedweekend,
14th & 15th June

We have arranged with Roundwheel Raceway to exchange sponsorship money received, for vouchers to be used at there stall.

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