Sunday 24th February 2008

United Downs Raceway, St Day - Sunday 24th February 2008 Practice Event
Although there was rain later on to dampen the pre-season enthusiasm, there was a good couple of hours of dry track time at the start of the annual Practice Event at St Day.
A grand total of fourteen BriSCA F2 Stock Cars were present. Amongst them, 832 Kane Moore had his brand new Higman, and 522 Chris Mikulla was at the wheel of his brand new Randall. 105 Ross Rowe set the day's fastest lap, driving the ex-Chris Bradbury Higman, with a time that was was just a fraction of a second quicker than the best posted by 393 Chris Cuming, now back in harness for the first time since last July. Teenager 127 Matt Stoneman took to the track well, using an ex-George Turriccki Randall to very good effect. He was joined by another trio of F2 newcomers - 992 Ian Jefferies (in the ex-Ross Rowe car), 116 Ashley Rundle who suffered a head gasket problem, and Tim Goddard. 752 Gavin Pike made his first appearance for three seasons, whilst the remaining group of drivers taking part in practice, were all Cornish based - 530 Matt Deeble, 707 Jeremy Moss, 785 Liam Deeble, 830 Andrew Bennett and the luckless 737 Neil Lampshire, who suffered a blown engine. 964 Kenny Peters was the lone Saloon Stock Car, but he was pleased to continually improve his lap times as the day progressed. 181 Lindsey Jones posted the day's fastest lap in the Stock Rods. In all, there were eight Stock Rods on track There were two new names amongst the six Ministox present - 938 Ashley Rice and Adam Neville. 947 Luke Purdy was also present for his first outing since a heavy crash last October, and the fastest lap time set, by some distance, was that of 991 Ryan Hoskin. Helping to push the total number of cars up towards 40 in all, there were approximately a dozen Bangers and Bangerstox - the most notable being 07 Jerry Harvey, who gave his Boneshayker Capri a run-out.

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