We are pleased to now confirm that all non-BWS drivers booking in and racing tomorrow night will now receive £40 start money courtesy of our sponsors, Pr1mo Energy Drink, not just the first 40 who booked in.

Book in on 01252 322920 or by email to bookings@incarace.co.uk.

Thanks to everyone for their support!

Adam Leslie
Incarace

Round 4 of the Banger World Series is almost with us, this Saturday seeing the Birmingham Wheels round of the series with 65 Unlimited National Bangers on the booking list at present as well as 19 Classic Hot Rods and 19 Reliant Robins.

The pre-meeting free photo signing takes place as usual with those on duty for this round being 67 Rickie Beasley, 180 Mark 'Sparky' Foster, 190 Steve 'Pikey' Bailey, 221 Justin 'Motor Mouth' Riley, 382 'Chubby' Jack Foster Jnr and 421 'Nutty Nige' Riley. Bring the kids for free signed and personalised photos from 4.50pm behind race control!

Steve Bailey will arrive at Birmingham as the newly crowned 2 Litre World Champion following his win at Hednesford Hills Raceway last Sunday, that title race saw some friction between Steve and Boxer Jack so it will be interesting to see if this carries on at Birmingham. Whether it does or not, there is plenty of spice guaranteed with the names on the booking list so it promises to be another top night of action.

With the large numbers booked in, the current plan is to run an extra heat for the National Bangers, with the format being 2 x half car heats, an all-in heat, then the Wild Card Final and Showdown. The winners of all three heats will draw for their positions at the front or back of the grid in the Wild Card race.

As at each round, the Wild Card winner not only gets his place on the World Final grid at Ipswich in October, but also wins a world final spec signwriting job courtesy this time of Dom Davies Signs, so we thank Dom for his kind sponsorship!

Most people know the Showdown rules now, but to confirm it's the first to complete 10 laps or the last car running, with turning round permitted on the bends only, and £200 to the winner!

BWS merchandise courtesy of Graphics By Dave will again be available from the track shop behind race control, with proceeds from all sales going direct to the drivers.

The Grand Parade for all National Bangers is at 6.15 with the first race at 6.30pm, and with the National Bangers due on first so we ask all drivers to be there in plenty of time to be scrutineered and ready for the parade at 6.15 please!

Click here for BWS Merchandise!

As promised, here is the early list for the Unlimited National Banger Veterans Day on 30th June at Hednesford Hills Raceway!

It certainly looks a cracking list already. Drivers can book in on 01252 322920 or by email to bookings@incarace.co.uk, day licence forms can be completed on the day and Incarace is paying the cost of day licences as before.

3 Darren Anslow
4 Chris Cash
7 Gaz Perry
17 Nik Sweet
19 Jon Butt
37 Martin Taylor
40 Ian Kitching
42 Pat McPhilimey
46 Pete Thomas
54 Mark Hayward
78 Karl Williams
78 Keith McDonagh
79 Gary Winterton
82 Paul Tompkins
90 Rob Baker
121 Richard Atkins
122 Andy Tidmarsh
143 Lee Smith
147 Mark Summerhayes
157 Lincoln Hunt
165 Mark Henstock
167 David Holmes
168 Clive Read
182 Gary Tingle
199 Dan Owen
204 Mick Charlton
211 Graham Hall
225 Neil Hopkins
236 Andy Robinson
237 Graham Cope
264 Ken Gibbs
265 Steve Hyde
266 Pete Manley
284 John Collins
383 Paul Adams
396 Brian Jennings
418 Dave Jones
427 Dave Wilson
595 Vince Kerry
787 Paul Smith
791 Micky Rowland

Keep the bookings coming!

This coming Bank Holiday Monday the Bride & Groom Bangers Series comes to the Banked ¼ mile oval known as Hednesford Hills Raceway!

Going into the last round the Series Grand Prize of a Luxury Holiday is still up for grabs to several pairings who are still in with a chance of taking the series and the tickets!

This meeting is still open to any pairing who want to come and join the fun and who knows there could be an afternoon of unpredictable carnage just to make the lives of our contending pairs even more difficult to try and take the victory!

I would ask that any pair planning on coming to take on the final round of the Bride & Groom Bangers to please book-in via 01252 322920 or booking@incarace.co.uk

The current points are available via the Incarace Website Points Page.

See you there and may the best pair drive away with the prize!!

Adam Leslie
Incarace

HOT WEATHER greeted close to 100 National Banger drivers for the 2 Litre World Championship at Hednesford on Sunday and 190 Steve Bailey took his second 2L World title in the main event.

The field included drivers from all over England plus one driver each from Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland in the shape of 153 Shaun Buckley, 880 Neil Naismith and 388 Steve McGrath, the latter pair one of a large number present who had raced at King’s Lynn the previous evening.

Two last chance races began the day with Trackstar’s 399 Jonny Atkin leading from flag to flag in the first which saw one or two good hits, the winner’s team mate 392 Sam Baines winning the entertainer prize, before the second qualifier proved livelier despite a smaller grid, a team of Stinkbridge young guns taking on everyone else with 211 Jak Hall winning the entertainer award for big hits on a pair of Levellers, 123 Rob Smith leading the race all the way.

The top six from each of the last chance races joined 42 seeded drivers for the big race, the event preceded by a parade of all 54 of them with 74 Adam Hitchcock and 531 Toby Tropper drawing the front row. Disaster struck for 880 Naisy and 116 Nat Cohn whose cars expired during the two rolling laps as Tropper led the first couple of laps before 190 Pikey, who had started fourth on the grid, shot away at the front. On lap four the race was stopped when 433 Ben Smith shed a wheel with Pikey again pulling away in front on the restart, most of the action taking place on turns three and four although no big hits stood out at this stage. 331 Jason Jackson was making good progress from mid-grid and reeled in Pikey despite clipping a backmarker, the Midnight Runner lunging for the lead at turn four but half a lap later Pikey’s tailgunner 341 Andy Jones hooked Boxer out and Pikey was back in the lead just as the reds came out for 203 Russ McBain who had been stuffed into a dead car at turn three. On the restart Pikey’s arch rival 247 Lee Clarke tried on two occasions to stop him but the DWO man found a way through each time, 247 Bro then resorting to blocking tactics on the exit of turn four just as he did in the 2012 event. Pikey was wise to him though and took his second 2 Litre World title, the recovering 331 Boxer Jack passing 682 Paul Sparrow for second and the RDC man third. Top Incarace finisher was 138 Ant Timmins in sixth while 341 Jonesy got the entertainer award.

Just under 50 cars came back for the Allcomers which was the highlight of the day. The first running was stopped when the spun 815 Daz Ainsclough took a huge hit over the back wheel from Buckley but the Bad News man exited OK, the restart seeing a succession of massive hits on the West bend with the Scrapyard Screamers, Mad Hatters and DWO all involved, Jonesy pulling off several shots to earn another entertainer award as did Atkin, 427 Dean McPhilimey and 999 Scott Hill in an awesome wreck-up. Just two cars went the distance with 86 Alec Savage following up fourth in the main race with the win here from 766 Andy Armstrong. The DD saw 18 cars return including 388 Little Stevo who had done well to repair, the event seeing a few decent hits before the action sadly spilled onto the infield and was red flagged, Atkin awarded the win.

The Rebels raced in support with 25 Anthony Masters taking heat one but the rest of the day belonged to the Joyce brothers. 656 Adam led home 156 James in both the second heat and the Feature before they finished one-two again in the GN but Adam was docked four places for jumping a restart giving James the win.

There was plenty of other entertainment with lots of passengers on Incarace’s pace cars before start time plus another star turn from Timmy the Tyre who didn’t stop dancing and running around the infield all day.