Reports: F2 and beyond.

A sign of the strength of Standlake’s F2 scene is the fact that a 30-car turnout for the annual Open Championship would be considering slightly disappointing and lower than expected.  The country-wide fuel issues and upcoming packed fixtures from the northern Outlaws left the record attendance safe from being broken just yet. Amongst the entry 92 John Hogg made his 3 rd Standlake visit of the season from Berwick, while 132 Dean Mawson was the sole representative from the Outlaws and made his track debut.   TRACK DEBUT FOR 132 DEAN MAWSON 92 JOHN HOGG'S 3RD VISIT OF THE YEAR PROD A RACER 101 ZAK MOORES' FIRST STANDLAKE F2 MEETING 101 Zak Moores made his first appearance on home soil following several outings at Grimley, while the Swaffham pairing of 254 Harry Heffer and 346 Anthony Warne were also making their first visit.  Finally, frequent Grimley visitors 42 Ash Greening and 299 Will Jackson were also in attendance. SWAFFHAM PAIRING 254 HARRY HEFFER & 346 AN...

Sunday sees the 7 th  running of Standlake’s Open Championship and at the time of writing, would see the largest ever turnout at the track with 36 cars booked in, with almost all points of the Outlaw F2 scene represented. ROLL OF HONOUR 2015 732 Daz Kitson 2016 212 Neil Soule 2017 352 Andy Webb 2018 87 Jack West 2019 856 Paul Webb 2020 856 Paul Webb There are five scheduled track debutants at this point, with recent Spedeworth convert 254 Harry Heffer joining 346 Anthony Warne in making their first visits away from Swaffham for this meeting.  Double (Northern) Outlaw World Champion and current British Champion 1 Danny Wragg is making his first visit to be in attendance and is joined from the Outlaw ranks by 132 Dean Mawson, fresh off his first ever race win last weekend at Brampton to claim the Yorkshire Cup.  Finally, 101 Zak Moores will be making his F2 debut, having previously raced 3 meetings at Grimley since moving across from the Prod A class; the former Juniors fro...

 Swaffham’s Gold Roof weekender was back for 2021 following a year sabbatical and pleasingly featured an entry list that covered all 4 southern tracks and included some very long-distance travellers.  20 cars were present in the pits on the Saturday night, with further cars expected for the Sunday.  Regular Barford racer 92 John Hogg made his first visit to the track, while the north-east was represented by ex-Ringwood racer, 138 Gary Tweddle who was also making his track debut. A FIRST SWAFFHAM VISIT FOR NOW WARTON-BASED 138 GARY TWEDDLE TRACK DEBUT FOR SCOTLAND'S 92 JOHN HOGG   Ringwood registered 72 Chris Langridge and 150 John Enright made rare visits along with former Swaffham regular 12 Vince Foley who was out for his first appearance of the season. FORMER RINGWOOD POINTS CHAMPION 150 JOHN ENRIGHT 82 STEVE RICKARD MADE HIS FIRST NON-RTS APPEARANCE OF THE SEASON Further entries came from RTS’ 82 Steve Rickard and a track debut for Grimley-based 716 J...

The fourth visit of the season to Standlake featured some ridiculously hot weather and a turnout of 25 cars in the pits.  There was even a flying-visit from the Red Arrows!  Amongst the entry, there was an F2 debut for 669 Lee Hall and a one-off appearance in a spare 26 Steve Turner car for 214 Stella Lacey.  The afore-mentioned Turner was back out for his first appearance since his nasty crash earlier this season, although unfortunately he never made the track due to running issues. F2 DEBUT FOR 669 LEE HALL A ONE-OFF MEETING FOR EX BANGER RACER 214 STELLA LACEY The 17-car heat 1 started in a dust cloud as 7 Josh Cornish led the field into turn 1 ahead of 321 Maisie Emms and 210 Patrick Somerton, although his lead was short-lived as he spun on turn 2 which allowed 542 Martin Chard into the lead with Somerton now 2 nd as Emms dropped back. 623 Rob Dobie then spun out of 3 rd place on turn 3 as the slippery conditions were catching everyone out.   38 Gavin Busby n...