Sheffield, 3rd May, Unlimited Bangers Battle of Britain

BA- Bears A
BB- Bears B
CZ- Crash Zone
SA- Stinkbridge A
SB- Stinkbridge B

20 cars for this years running of the Unlimited Battle of Britain at the superbly appointed Owlerton Stadium spread across 2 teams of the Brighton Bears, 2 of Team Stinkbridge and 1 for Crash Zone. The field was all Granadas and Volvos save for BA421 Nige Rileys 300c and two Jags from SB451 Willy Blackwell and SA09 Andy Holmes, both in Series 3's.

 With all the cars on track for the opener and some of the countrys best crashes you knew the action was never going to be far away and SA318 Wilf Speak started the ball rolling by having CZ514 Paul Woods out before SB450 Glyn Platts run BB41 Paul Pentacost in with BA321 Brett Fry quick to weigh into the Pink man. Blackwell arrived to blow up 321 Wingnut with 421 Nutty Nige not far behind to destroy the 451 XJ with CZ172 Simon Byrne also weighing in with a heavy blast only to be trashed by 09 Psycho. SA294 Nigel Ashley then steamed Nutty Nige only to cop a head on of BA169 Jason Thompson as Psycho buried BB28 Neill Osbourne into Ashley before having 28 Ozzie come off the centre at the Stinkbridge loon with Nige also hitting the 09 XJ. The latter recovered to t-bone BA521 Ashley Riley with CZ428 Richard Regan soon on Psychos case, Ozzie then taking to the centre to t-bone 09 as BB422 Nick Allam took the win from CZ252 John Wibberley, BB424 Jason Pollard and Ozzie who was the only other finisher.

 A creditable field returned for the second heat with 424 the Wizard applying the breaks on Psycho straight away as SA167 David Holmes took out 514 Shifty allowing Thompson to blast the Crash Zone man, Psycho then picking up Nige and following him in big time which snapped the Bear skippers Cedric and carrier bagged it in grand style. 252 Wibbsy soon arrived on the scene to waste Psycho before taking a shot from Thompson and a stiff t-bone from Platts who was blown up inturn by 521 Ace Ash as on the Tavern turn 167 Bushwacker followed 422 Nicko in well only to cop one up the chuff from Pollard and a collosal length of the straight head on from Ash. The reds came out to extract Nige from his wreck with him emerging OK the race was declared in favour of Nicko who took his second win with Bushwacker, the Wizard and Ash following him home as the results were taken from the last completed lap.

 12 cars returned for the final with Ashley putting Wibbsy into a post early doors before 172 Bernie, who had works wonders to get back out, wasted the Pink 740 Volvo estate as Grumpy got stuck into SB455 Rick Finney with Thompson inturn firing up the back of the Crash Zone skipper as Ozzie did Wibbsy over the back wheel and Wingnut nailed Bernies hat back on. Grumpy then steamed the Wizard on the back straight as Finney hit Bernie just as the latter was exiting, thankfully no harm done with Grumpy turning it round for some revenge on the 455 motor only to take a big head on from Ash. The reds then came out as the promotion thought it was getting too dangerous, never heard that one before! Wibbsy was disqualified from the restart for allegedly cutting across the grass even though at least 1 driver from every other team had done the same thing at some point during the day and got away with it, which left us with just 5 Bears to race round, Thompson taking an easy win from Wingnut and Ash which signalled the start of the demo, Pentacost meeting Thompson in a stiff head on with Wingnut jacking the 169 estate and Ash also giving the latter a head on. Ash and Wingnut now met in similar fashion with the former being declared the victor as the reds came out and celebrated by meeting Wingnut on the nose for one last time.
 Bears A took the overall victory with the B team in second and Crash Zone third.

 This wrapped up an awesome session for what cars were on offer, a case of quality not quantity if ever there was one! It was always expected to be heavy with the teams and drivers on offer, if it could have had more it could have really been explosive and quite easily a contender for meeting of the year.

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