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MARCH 28, 2016

WORDS: Richard Williamson

This year, the Mini Seven Racing Club embarks on its landmark 50th Anniversary season, and it is fitting that Castle Combe was also on the 1966 calendar for the inaugural Formula Mini-7 championship MINI SE7EN & S CLASS With registrations well up on previous years, the 1-litre pocketrockets look set for a bumper season in 2016. Twice runner-up Quick Links

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in 2014 and 2015, Darren Thomas must start as a hot favourite, but will be pushed by the likes of former champion Andrew Deviny and rising star, Ashley Davies, the

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latter eligible to carry the coveted #50 in this anniversary season.

Among the expected entries, the experienced Graeme Davis and Lewis Selby should be up front, with Spencer Wanstall, Jabez Dyer and Kieren McDonald keen to progress to the top step after podium visits during recent seasons. Of note too in pre-season news is the Mini racing comeback of Septuagenarian Eian Riddiford, who was a championship runner-

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up in the early 1990s. Similarly, names looking to return after a decade or two away include Lee Roberts and Paul Baker.

Meanwhile, the budget-tuned 1275cc S-Class has undergone a revamp over the winter too, so look out for a crop of newcomers running with green windscreen headers and door squares, and carrying race numbers in the #700s.

MINI Se7en Records Lap record: Jabez Dyer Time. 1:24.002 Ave: 79.28 mph on 6 April 2015

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MINI MIGLIA Records Lap record: Kelly Rogers Time. 1:17.551 Ave: 85.88 mph on 23 June 2007

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MINI MIGLIA (& INVITATION) more powerful 1.3-litre, slick tyre category is also shaping up to be a fiercely contested series, with some big hitters throwing their hat into the ring. Kane Astin will be aiming to at least match his 2015 record of 10 wins and being on the podium in every round as he defends his title, with 2014 winner Rupert Deeth keen to win it back again!

Shayne Deegan brings title-winning form across from Hot Hatches to a berth in the ultra-successful Peter

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Baldwin Motorsport car, and even won the Snetterton ‘Winter Mini invite’ for the ‘50-Plate’ in it to underline his potential. Other proven winners include Dan Wheeler, and returning former double-champion (both in Miglias and Se7ens), Bill Sollis.

The Invitation class continues into 2016 also, and will hopefully see a selection of A-Series cars from other disciplines, including Historics, to add to the rapid Mini mix.

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Chairman’s Chat Words of wisdom from the man at the top.

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eturning back to November of last year, we had a well-attended AGM and Technical Discussion at our regular location in Luton.

As well as some lively discussion on several of the technical issues and a presentation of our 2016 race calendar, we also voted in the Committee for the current year. The only change to the 2015 Committee was the stepping down of Gareth Hunt as Mini Se7en Drivers’ representative. I would like to thank Gareth for all of his work on the Committee. I would also like to welcome Darren Thomas onto the Committee, as Gareth’s replacement. If there are any issues at the circuits, please initially approach the appropriate Drivers’ rep. before talking to the MSA officials.

In January we had our first Awards evening at the Stratford Manor Hotel, near Stratford-uponAvon. It was a resounding success..... excellent service, good rooms and breakfast and we all enjoyed the band! So we have decided to return in 2017. It was nice to have our first Mini Se7en Champion Bob Fox as our invited guest of honour. The stories that he was telling us on our table were quite fascinating........ especially the tale about racing in a collar and tie! I was also pleased, as I’m sure all of the Membership was, to see that Graeme Davis was awarded the Fred Jackson Memorial Trophy {Club person of the year}.

Well deserved Graeme.... a big thank you for what you have done in 2015.

The race calendar for 2016 is as

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exciting as usual. Colin Peacock has produced the best that he can arrange with the race organisers. For me, I’m looking forward to most of the venues, especially Cadwell Park and Zandvoort. As I couldn’t make the fantastic weekend last year in the Netherlands, this time I have

pencilled in the weekend to visit the home {for 37 years} of the Dutch Grand Prix. I’m sure most of us ‘racing’ fans will remember seeing the tragic footage of David Purley trying to save the life of Roger Williamson at the 1973 Grand Prix.

50 Years It seems amazing that we are about to start our 50th year since the Club was formed, the first race being at Brands Hatch on Sunday 17th 1966.

This and other facts and figures with associated photographs, along with later years, have been painstakingly recorded by Richard Williamson in the excellent Mini 7 Racing Archives. These are available

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at the Club awning at all race meetings. Also the 2016 regulations will be available at each race meeting along with the 2015 Pitlane review.

To celebrate our Golden year, a new and exciting range of merchandise {clothing, umbrellas, mugs...... even a Mini 7 Racing Club Teddy} is available on our excellent Club Website. A big thank you, to Dan Wheeler, for organising this for the Club.

I would like to thank all of our sponsors for their continued support; these will be indicated on the new 50th anniversary podium backdrop. Finally I would like to thank love:mini for the excellent newsletter..... if you have any articles to submit {building your new car, your past racing history etc} then please contact Craig McBeth. Also to the volunteers at each meeting, that make this Club so successful, yet again another ‘thank you’. If anyone wishes to lend a hand at race meetings, in whatever form it may be, please let one of the Committee know.

I will be at the first round if there are things that you wish to discuss or you have a suggestion that might make this Club even better....... until then, I wish you all an exciting season, with more highs than lows.

See you at Castle Combe

Nick Nick Cooke Chairman M7RC

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What’s in store for the 50th year

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his year’s Mini Se7en Club Championship is set to be extra special as it marks a significant milestone for the club - 50 years since the first Mini 7 Club championship race in 1966 - and to celebrate you can expect to see some very special things.

Firstly, there is the exciting news of returning champions and past racers taking on the current defending champions, pitting new vs old.

The Club has also been invited to take part in a couple of special extra events, separate to the race calendar.

There’s the Coventry MotoFest on June 4-5, and the exciting repeat of the overseas trip to Zandvoort in Holland, that went down so well at the end of last season.

This has had the effect of extended the race season a little longer, which is always a good thing.

Some of the circuits we will be racing on this season are allowing us to use the GP layouts so that is another little treat.

Extra support is coming from Mini Magazine this year which is supporting us with articles on the club’s rich history and heritage.

Look out for features on our drivers and other articles.

Generally we are going to be more organised, with a more professional image and setup. There’s anew podium backdrop, regular newsletters courtesy of love:mini and there will be some landmark celebrations along the way.

Bill Sollis returns Double Mini Miglia and Se7en champion Bill Sollis is set to make a welcome return to the Miglia grid for rounds one and two at Castle Combe on 28th March. “Mentally I never really left Minis or the Mini 7 Club,” says Bill. “I’d always be checking TSL or Motoring News to see the race results, and I’ve been saying I’d make a comeback for a long time now.”

The car I’m using was actually built by Tony Ward in the mid‘90s, around the same time as Peter Vickers’ car. Tony raced it maybe 20 times and I took it

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Finally, no anniversary would be complete with some memorabilia to commemorate it, and thanks to Dan Wheeler’s Dread we have some awesome new threads on sale at the circuits and also online.

With all of this set for 2016 - it looks like everyone’s in for a really good year - let’s hope the track action is as exciting... it usually is!!

Happy 50th Anniversary!!

News in Brief Race archive updates Over at the championship standings page you’ll find a more complete looking set of race results now in place. The records go back to 2002, as downloaded from the TSL Timings site, but all in one handy place.

out at Brands for a Winter Series race, which I won, so it’s a good car with a lightweight modern ‘cage. I think it’s far cheaper to buy a competitive car than to start from scratch.

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New Mini 7 Reporter Please say ‘hi’ and welcome Oli Knights into the Mini 7 Club as our new race reporter.

Brands Hatch GP meeting Good news - the Brands Hatch GP meeting scheduled initially to be a one day event has moved to be over two days, 16th and 17th April. Scrutineering and qualification will be on Saturday afternoon, with the two combined races on the Sunday.

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Mini Se7en News new merchandise range for 2016

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he Mini 7 Racing Club is pleased to announce a new licencing arrangement. Joining other famous motor sport brands, Dunlop and Honda, the club has teamed up with Dread to create a new, exciting range of merchandising from baseball caps to waterproof track side suits.

Alongside the items featuring the contemporary club logo, there are also some alternative products celebrating the original club logo.

The plan is to keep the range fresh by adding new products and deleting the less popular items as we go forward.

Mike and Alan will carry a few of the items at the circuits, but for the broadest range we would encourage you to think about placing all your orders from the website.

Thanks to this arrangement, we can now look forward to a smarter, more Mini 7 branded, paddock in 2016.

Finally, a big thank you to Dan Wheeler for his support for the club in launching this new range.

Please take a look in the next few days, the range is now available to browse and purchase online. http://www.dread.cc/shop/category/mini_7/

Club invited to Coventry Motofest

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he Mini 7 Racing Club has been invited to participate in the Coventry MotoFest to be held on the weekend of June 4th and 5th 2016. You can read a bit more detail on the event on their website The event, growing in popularity,

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has ambitions to become a full blown street racing venue in future years. In 2016 the BARC will organise a sprint event on its one mile circuit, with three to four runs for each driver each day.

It will be a multi-class event and the organisers are looking for around five to six cars across our three formulae. There is no entry fee to consider at this stage, and there may be flexibility to accept more than five to six if it proves popular.

Please email Colin on colinmpeacock@hotmail.co.uk if you want to participate. At this stage we need firm commitments only please, not ‘maybes’. https://coventrymotofest.com

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Special 50 stickers A2Z Minis has very kindly designed a special commemorative sticker to celebrate the club’s 50th anniversary.

The stickers have been donated to the club by Rohith de Silva and his team. They will be available to buy throughout the season from Mike and Alan Jackson at the Mini 7 Club stand.

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MARCH 28 Round 1 & 2 Castle Combe, Chippenham, Wiltshire SN14 7EY 01249 782417

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Race Timetable Castle Combe March 28, 2016 Mini 7 Qualifying Race 1 Race 2

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Castle Combe 10, 20, 30, 40, 50 years ago

WORDS: Richard Williamson PHOTOS: M7RC Archive

A delve into the M7RC Archive helps us to recap what happened over the decades at Castle Combe around this time of year.

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he Dunlop2006 10 Years backed series Ago visited the 1.85-mile Wiltshire venue on 1 May for its now regular Monday Bank Holiday fixture. Hosted by the BRSCC (SW), this meeting was the third-of-a-dozen rounds counting towards the National Challenge.

A pair of 10-lappers in dry sunny conditions produced the usual crowd-warming fare, with the Se7ens up first. From a strong 27-car entry, Andrew Deviny was the star of the show, starting from pole position and eventually opening a clear gap to a gaggle of cars behind, with fastest lap thrown in for good measure and setting him up for a maiden title-winning season. Joining him

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for the post-race interviews were Geoff Letts and Max Hunter in second and third respectively (also reflecting Se7ens braking for Quarry their overall Photo: M7RC Archive (Pitlane) season-end was Ricky Horne. placings), An 18-car entry in the Miglia with reigning champ’ Paul section was equally competitive, Thompson fourth from Andy Kelly Rogers taking a narrow Burge and Paul Clark. Other 0.198s victory from poleman, and names on the results sheets champion-elect, Bill Sollis with still on the grid today included Andy Hack in third. Martin Wager Dick Hunter, Graeme Davis, Ian set the fastest lap on his way to Deviny, Kane Astin, Anthony fourth ahead of James Hall and Towey, Darren Thomas, Philip Ralph ‘Pitstop’ Saunders. Familiar Gillibrand, Paul Spark and names further back included Malcolm Keat. This was also Tim Sims, Tony Le May, Gordon the debut season for the new Pocock, Gerald Dale, Mark Sims ‘budget’ Scholarship Class and Phil Harvey, the latter trying (won overall by Tristen Knight), out the new Miglia S-Class. Paul although there were no takers Baird was leading novice. on this occasion. Top novice

Miglias head off towards Old Paddock Photo: M7RC Archive (Pitlane)

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Castle Combe 10, 20, 30, 40, 50 years ago Phil Manser leads Se7en pack Photo: M7RC Archive (S Cranston)

Martin pester lifts a Miglia corner Photo: M7RC Archive (S Cranston)

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n invite from the BRSCC (SW) to join the Rover Racing Weekend on 14/15 September saw the then Unipart-DCM sponsored Challenges convene for round 10-of-12 in the National series.

Another gloriously dry event brought out the crowds and the entries for twin 10-lappers.

A whopping 31 cars tried their luck in Miglias, and in an awesome, ding-dong battle, Richard Wager timed his last-lap move to perfection, crossing the line just 0.15s in front of Bill Sollis, with champion-to-be Stewart Drake grabbing

third from poleman Peter Baldwin also on the last lap. In fifth, Ian Curley established a new lap record (1:10.62) for the older 1.84-mile circuit, with Mike Jackson completing the top six, ahead of the likes of Chris Lewis and Myk Cable. David McGuinness was leading novice.

From a massive entry of 41 drivers, and underlining his Mini Se7en championship-winning season, Phil Manser took victory number five-of-seven by a short nose from future champ Tim Sims, followed by Dave Percival, Mickey

and Owen ads Peter Baldwin ive Stewart Drake he Photo: M7RC Arch Hall in Miglias.

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Bray (joint fastest lap with Sims), Matt Hayman and Dick Hunter.

Further back came Steve Bell, Paul Thompson, Paul Baker and Steven Hopper. Pole position had been the preserve of Rob Selby, but a huge opening lap shunt at Avon Rise brought out the red flags and necessitated a restart, minus Selby. Also missing from the grid were Ben Owen and Mark Sims who had both rolled heavily after a coming together in qualifying, the latter briefly knocked unconscious. In the competitive novice section, Jason Ford got the nod over Paul Woodbridge, although their overall positions were reversed at season end.

Steve Bell and Dave Braggins’ smart Se7ens Photo: M7RC Archive

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Castle Combe 10, 20, 30, 40, 50 years ago 1986 30 Years Ago

Miglias in the tyres Photo: M+A Jackson Collection

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here were two visits to Combe, both meetings again run by the BRSSCC (SW), the first on 31 March for National round 2-of-15.

From two-dozen 998cc Miglias, the Findus-backed car of Chris Lewis emerged in front after 10 laps of close action around the drying 1.84-mile track, leading home younger brother Jonathan by 0.1s once closest challenger (and Lewis racing teammate) Russell Grady had gone off. The Yorkshire-based duo shared the fastest lap, with the younger having started from pole. Gerald Dale completed the podium, ahead of Driver of the Day John Bailey who rose from 20th on the grid. Graham Chivers (Zanussi ‘Appliance of Science’-backed machine) and Bev Comber completed the leaderboard.

In the 850cc Se7ens race Gary Hall emerged in front by 1.3s at the flag, having edged clear of Steve Mole (fastest lap)

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Andrew Finniss in fourth (in the Unigate-backed car shared with brother Stephen) from the Billbuilt pair of Bill Sollis and Raphael Speed. Of note in the 22-car entry were Bryan Slark race-testing a customer’s engine, and Tina Cooper in her second season. Hall had set the fastest race lap before retiring from the runner-up spot, likewise DNFs for Jackson and Davis.

So wet was the Miglia race later on that the 24-car field was restricted to just five laps, during which time the other brother pairing, Richard and Tim Wager, managed to usurp the top two positions, the former making good use of pole position to keep the spray behind him, and the latter nearly collecting an abandoned car when off-course at one point! Grady had been with the leaders but dropped out, as did Chris Lewis, while best of the rest was Mark Jones (Slark) ahead of Comber, John Davies and Danny Allpress (69 Club).

Fastest lap went to top novice, and teammate to Jones, Dick Collins.

and poleman Chris Tyrrell in a ‘hammer and tongs’ 10-lapper, Peter Brown recovering to fourth having gone off when challenging for the lead early on.

Ben Dutson and Graham Penn came next, with novice of the season Alan Jackson (Mikal Mini) in eighth, Graeme Davis in 10th and Ralph Budd (Costabomb Mini) a DNF among the 25-car entry.

On to round 11 and unseasonal wet weather marred the Historic Race Day on 25 August.

The earlier Se7ens’ race was cut by a lap to nine due to the deteriorating conditions, which left poleman and eventual champion Tyrrell out in front by Chris Tyrrell, Steve Mole and Gary Hall in classic an untypical Se7en action Photo: M+A Jackson Collection margin, Steve Mole trailing at the flag by over 20s followed by Alan Seekings in third, then

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Castle Combe 10, 20, 30, 40, 50 years ago 1976 40 Years Ago

Miglia action Photo: A Seekings Collection

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ive separate visits to Combe highlighted the first season of the heavily backed Leyland Mini Challenge, with three formulae on the M7RC books.

The renamed Leyland Mini 1000 Challenge (nee Miglia) got first dibs on 19 April for the BRSCC (SW) 10-lapper, the third of a massive 18-round marathon. From a 28-car entry, champion-elect Mike Curnow took the second-of-eight victories in his Longman-tuned car, shadowed by the rival Swiftune-powered machine of Alan Seekings. Curnow’s Wessex Kentreds teammate, Ian Briggs, started on pole but dropped

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to third, with Tom Hurn (East Anglian Garages), Andy Devine (Swiftune) and Derek May rounding out the top half dozen.

John Hazell set fastest lap.

Both Mini 1000 and Mini 850 (nee Se7en) were on hand for the Hagley & District Light Car Club’s 31 May meeting, trophies and £25 vouchers part of the prize package in the sixth round of both National Challenges.

With a massive 42-car entry, the 850s needed a consolation race for the non-qualifiers and this was won by Ben Dutson from Chris Winter and John Price. The main 10-lapper went to future F3 racer Terry Pudwell, just over 2 secs ahead of John

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West. In third was Ron Cuthbert, just holding off fastest lap man Graham Woskett in a Ripspeedbacked car, followed by Julian Cutler and Graham Larrington.

Further down the order we had champion-to-be (for the third time) Graham Wenham, Martin Goodall in the Tiger comic liveried car, and polesitter Chris Tyrrell (Calbrook) who dropped off the pace with a sick motor.

The 1000s race drew 28 cars, and again Mike Curnow emerged out in front in what had become a waterlogged affair, setting the quickest lap despite the proliferation of puddles. Briggs had again started from pole, but an engine problem dropped him

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Castle Combe 10, 20, 30, 40, 50 years ago 1976 40 Years Ago

Longman version joining him on the sidelines with another loose wheel, an issue that would dog the series’ debut season. This left Roger Saunders’ Wadham Stringer/Unipart machine out in front after 10 laps, comfortably clear of the second-place scrap which fell to Jim Burrows from Alan Curnow (both Longman powered), then Geoff Till, Terry Attoe and Malcolm Leggate. The Shellsport ‘Celebrity’ car was pedalled on this occasion by motoring journo Rex Greenslade, with longtime Mini campaigner Tim Dodwell rounding out the top 10. Saunders and

Burrows established a new lap record of 1:20.2 for the class.

The Mini 850s returned on 11 September for their 15th round of 18, the 27 entries led home on this occasion by Hugo Shipley’s Harris-tuned car, also setting fastest lap. Wenham got within 0.2s at flagfall, from Colin Fisher (Shellsport), Woskett, Goodall and Pudwell, with lady racer Denny Hulford 16th in the car shared with husband Gerry.

Tony Styles had been quickest in qualifying but went out on the opening lap in a race typically described in the weeklies for its “…door-handling, tyre-smoking, wheel-bending, bodyworkclanging antics…”!

or the inaugural 1966 ground-breaking 50 Years season of Formula Ago Mini-7, the 750 Motor Club had arranged the third-of-six championship rounds at Combe, and 10 pioneering drivers got to race among a mix of saloons in three classes; up-to-1500cc, over 1500cc and Formula Mini-7 itself.

Inaugural Formula Mini-7 champion, Bob Fox While Brian Cutting Photo: courtesy 750 Bulletin went down in the record clinching a third class win from books as the overall pole position in his Team 848 car, race winner in his 1.9-litre Ford but only just as Richard Bromley Anglia, Bob Fox was grabbing battled him all the way as they the headlines in the all-new embarrassed some of the more budget Mini 850 category,

powerful machines around them!

Both established a new lap record of 1:27.4 (75.79mph average), while not far behind were Brian Vawer, Gordon Line, Graham Elwell, John Routley, R Cottrill, John Lyon and H Stewart, with Geoff Gilkes the only non-finisher.

As Autosport magazine said at the time, “The battle for this class was very, very close - and very, very hairy by some of the drivers.” Naturally…!

to sixth. With Curnow clear, Seekings became the closest challenger in second ahead of Paul Perera, John Bradburn’s Aldon-tuned machine and Eric Groves’ Gunk stickered car.

It was the turn of the Clubmanfronted 1275 GTs for the BARCrun meet on 30 August, Leyland’s headlining Mini category drawing 14 cars. Having claimed pole, Paul Taft’s Motospeed car dropped out with a tell-tale puff of smoke, Steve Soper’s

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Mini Se7en 1 Andrew Deviny 2 Darren Thomas 3 Graeme Davis 4 Leon Wightman 5 Kieren McDonald 6 Ashley Davies 7 Julian Proctor 9 Steve Trench 11 Charlie Budd 15 Steve Baker 16 Julian Affleck 18 Lewis Selby 21 Tina Cooper 23 Jabez Dyer 29 Daniel Budd 34 Anthony Towey 35 Paul Spark 37 Gareth Hunt 38 Steven Hopper 39 Andy Miller 44 Adam Smith 46 Max Hunter 47 Kelvin Edgar 49 Ross Billison 52 Nathan Burge 54 Lewis Fox 60 Malcolm Keat 63 Dave Robinson 73 Spencer Wanstall 89 Tom Hartwell

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SOCOMEC Driver Big Mac Racing SMG Motorsport Roonspeed SJT Racing/Floss-a-lot Pristine Condition Selby Motorsport Driver Driver A+ Racing Driver A L Motorsport Hunters Garage Kelsport

1 Rupert Deeth 4 Colin Peacock 11 Kane Astin 12 Paul Thompson 20 Mark Sims 21 Aaron Smith 27 Ian Fraser 28 Bob Humphreys 29 Dave Drew 31 Phil Dale 44 Paul Clark 48 Ian Briscall 49 Gary Warburton 50 Daniel Wheeler 53 Niven Burge 55 Michael Green 69 Tony Le May 72 Rob Howard 77 Tristen Knight 85 Sam Summerhayes 99 Mark Cowan

Team Deeth Mondo Sport Driver AAA Racing Driver Driver Driver Driver Driver Driver Owens Motorsport Wenden Garage Lodway SS Baldwin M’sport

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111 Jonathan Lewis 118 Ian Curley 157 William Ward 113 Phil Harvey 184 Steve Jones 241 Damon Astin

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Mini Se7en s class 90 Ian Deviny 91 Shaun Tarlton 92 Kevin O Shea 93 Roland Parsloe 97 James Burrows

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As of Round 3 it’s , lead of the Se7ens Paul Spark in the Donny and placed having won at Rockingham races. strongly in both ent from the threestatem It’s a strong who will be looking time champion, in on the board to put early points consecutive title. pursuit of his fourth

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