THE Saloon Scottish Championship usually provides plenty of fireworks and whilst this year’s race was exciting with plenty of contact, there were some problems found in the post race scrutineering and as such no result was declared until confirmation from the Saloon Stock Car Association.

The race was basically led from start to finish by the defending champion, Luke Grief, but that only tells part of the tale! Paul Honeyman, who was third home, was declared the winner with four drivers being disqualified for infringements and only six cars classified!

Kyle Taylor was back up from the north of England as he looks to secure the formula II Novice of the Year trophy whilst Robbie Dawson and Pete Davidson were back in action.

Local drivers were Paul and Craig Reid (Cowdenbeath) and Dale Burt (Lochgelly).

The opening heat was led off by Davidson but he was moved over as P. Reid and Adam Blacklock relegated him down the order.

Burgoyne bounced over a kerb and then slowed to retire.

As the race entered its closing stages Wallace got ahead of Blacklock and Reid in quick succession to win from P. Reid and Robbie Dawson whilst C. Reid was eighth. Heat two saw Burt lead the field away but soon lost out to P. Reid and Blacklock. However, Burgoyne was on a mission and carved his way through the field and forcing his way into the front early on. Once there he pulled away before going on to win from Wallace and Dawson with P. Reid seventh and C. Reid tenth.

Burt led the cars away when the final started but soon lost out to P. Reid and Blacklock who were again running nose to tail. Burgoyne made a good start from the back of the grid and was soon making up places whilst Dawson and Wallace were also running nose to tail but had lost a couple of car lengths to Burgoyne. Burgoyne began to close in on the leaders getting ahead of both in quick succession.

Dawson and Wallace had caught Garry Sime and Blacklock and were dicing for third whilst Burgoyne took the lead. P. Reid then dropped back as Dawson and Wallace caught and passed him. Burgoyne reeled off the remaining laps to win the final where he led home Dawson and Wallace with P. Reid seventh.

There was a good turn out of cars for the saloon Scottish Championship including local drivers Kyle Irvine (Glenrothes), Derek Duff (Cupar), Raymond Dick (Glenrothes), Ross Watters (Leven), Davie Sturrock (Saline) and Alex Cunningham (Leven).

The drawn grid paired the defending champion Luke Grief on pole with Watters alongside on the front row whilst behind them were Jamie Connacher and Marc Honeyman. Irvine was to start from row 3 with Sturrock on row 4, Dick row 5 whilst Strath was on row 11 with Duff and Cunningham sharing row 12

When the race started Grief went straight into the lead but when Ross Graham and Paul Honeyman tangled the race was suspended with Connacher and Irvine early casualties.

The grid was reformed and again Grief led the cars away from M. Honeyman and Watters but Dick spun on the pit bend and somehow was missed by the pack. However, when Patrick Calderwood’s car came to a halt on the pit bend the race had to be suspended. Grief again led the field away, however, a couple of laps after the restart the race was suspended again, this time after James Letford had been spun with his stranded car facing the oncoming traffic.

Grief again got the race underway from Watters but Graeme Anderson was spun by Barry Glen. M. Honeyman spun out of fifth as Graham began to make inroads.

P. Honeyman managed to get inside of Watters for second but on lap 19 with debris on the track the race was suspended. Grief again got the race underway but Watters retired and whilst Grief was first across the line from Graham and P. Honeyman there were a few problems in the post race scrutineering.

After the cars were checked P. Honeyman was declared the new Scottish Champion although there is some dubiety about the minor placings which are still to be confirmed.

There was a good turn out of ORCi stock rod drivers with Michael Bethune leading Jim Pitcaithly in the track points by a mere 17 points with two meetings remaining.

Gary Nicholls was back in action with a newly acquired car. Local drivers were James Matson (Glenrothes), Stuart McKinnon (Kincardine), Steven Archibald (Glenrothes), Jim Pitcaithly (Kirkcaldy), Chris Wallace (Buckhaven), Stuart Wedderburn (Leven), Simon Laing (Springfield) and Michael Bethune (Kirkcaldy).

The opening heat saw Pitcaithly and Bethune drive through the field with Pitcaithly just holding on to win with James Gray finishing in third spot. Heat two ended with Gray picking up a narrow win over Matson with Martin Rankine elevated to third and just ahead of Archibald and McKinnon with Wallace in tenth after both Pitcaithly and Bethune were removed from the results.

Archibald led the cars away when the final started with Gray leading Matson as they charged through the field, Gray got ahead but couldn’t shake off Matson with the latter eventually finding the line to get him inside of gray and into the lead. Once there he opening up a useful gap before going on to win the Turner Trophy final from Gray and Archibald with McKinnon in fifth and Wallace seventh.

The ministox drivers have been in good form this year and tonight was no exception with plenty of close and fast racing. Local drivers on the grid included Michael Mitchell (Lochgelly).

The opening heat saw Steven Burgoyne come through the field to win and heat two ended with McWilliam going through to win.

Lauren Ford led the cars away when the final started before Reece Din took over. Mika Millar then moved into the lead but then lost the lead to Sinclair and whilst he led for a couple of laps was caught and passed by Charlie Folan. Burgoyne had been making good progress and on the penultimate lap dived inside of Folan to take the lead and the win.

There was big turn out of microf2 drivers for the meeting augmented by Elexie and Acacia Bartram, April Ford and Samantha and Kyle Rogerson whilst the local drivers were Rebecca Reid (Cowdenbeath) and Leon Muir (Thornton).

Jamie Dawson won the opening heat from Lewis Burgoyne, Dawson then won heat two from E. Bartram. Dawson then made it a clean sweep when he won the third heat.

This Saturday the BriSCA formula IIs and 2 Litre national saloons are back in action with the 1300cc saloons and 2 litre bangers. The banger drivers are racing for their Scottish Championship with James Dillon defending whilst the formula II drivers are contesting the final of their white/yellow challenge series. The meeting starts at 6.00pm as usual.

At Skegness on Saturday night Gordon Moodie (Windygates) won the formula Ii final after having picked up a third then a runners up spot in his heats. On Sunday he moved up to Barford where he won both heats then the final picking up the Ray Strong Memorial Trophy.