SALOON driver Deane Mayes scared the living daylights out of the spectators at the Cowdenbeath Racewall when he rolled his car after hitting a marker tyre with the vehicle coming to rest on top of the wall, writes our Racewall scribe Jim Turner.

Luckily Deane stepped out of this unhurt and was back out for the next race!

However, on Saturday night Ethan Pope and Luke McCallum both rolled their minis but escaped unhurt.

On Sunday it was a day to be a yellow grader with Gregor Turner winning the formula II Champion of Champions race, Barry Glen all the saloon races including the Gordon Barclay Memorial Trophy, whilst Kevin Forrester won the ORCi Scottish Open Championship.

In a thrilling 1300saloon Scottish Championship Fraser Anderson came out on top whilst Jamie Dawson went on to win the microf2 Scottish Cup in an exciting encounter

Amongst the formula II drivers in action on Saturday night were James Yule whilst Ian Thompson had bought the Garry Sime RCE. Kyle Taylor, David Sinclair, Richie Mead and John Broatch were the visitors from south of the border whilst the local drivers were Gregor Turner (Dunfermline), Kieran Howie (Dunfermline), Paul and Craig Reid (Cowdenbeath), Ian Thompson (Kennoway) and Gordon Moodie (Windygates).

The opening race of the night was the RS Motorsports sponsored Dash for the Cash and ended with Moodie winning from Chris Burgoyne. The opening heat was won by Turner who led home Moodie and Burgoyne with P. Reid in fifth place. In heat two Moodie went through to win.

P. Reid was soon through into the lead when the final started but lost out to Moodie just after the half distance. Not long after Moodie took the lead than there was a race suspension but on the re-start Moodie eased away from the field before going on to win the James Clarke Cochrane Memorial Trophy.

The saloons were racing for their Superbowl Trophy as well as World Ranking points which brought up quite a few drivers from England and from Northern Ireland. Local drivers in action were Kyle Hegg (Leslie), Ross Watters (Leven) and James Strath (Cowdenbeath).

Heat one saw Barry Glen go through to win from Michael Allard and Deane Mayes. Ian McLaughlin then won heat two from Luke Grief and Ross Thomas. The third heat ended with Marc Honeyman going through to make it a clean sweep for the Scots.

The grid for the Superbowl paired Grief and McLaughlin on the front row but the next seven places were filled by drivers from south of the Border. When the green flag dropped Grief made the better of the starts to lead from McLaughlin but the drivers weren’t holding back and as a result there were a few shunts and spins. The grid reformed behind Grief who got away well although McLaughlin wasn’t too far adrift whilst Mayes appeared in third.

Paul Honeyman was sent spinning although he was able to restart but had lost ground. Grief continued on his merry way reeling off the laps before winning the Superbowl from McLaughlin and Mayes. Conrad Self, who won the first Superbowl, was on hand to present the trophies to the first three.

There was another good turn out of minis with more than half the field made up by drivers from south of the border whilst the local drivers were Gary Paterson (Saline), Cieran Adams (Lochgelly) and Mitch Gold (Leven).

Heat one was won by Steven Burgoyne and he also won heat two. The final, which was for the Disco and Trackshop Trophies ended with Buster Sage Jnr, getting the better of the exchanges to win from Burgoyne and Morphey with Adams in tenth place.

The microf2s were split into four groups with the drivers gaining points for Sunday's Scottish Cup. Heat wins went to Cathal McFerran, Jack Morrow and Joshua Johnson as they set themselves up for Sunday’s event.

The opening formula II race on Sunday was the Champion of Champions race with P. Reid leading the field away but within a couple of laps Turner was ahead and set about building up a lead.

Once Moodie moved into second place the gap closed dramatically, Moodie challenged on the top bend and got alongside but at the line Turner was the winner by a whisker from Moodie with Dawson third and P. Reid fifth and just ahead of Thompson.

Moodie then won heat one, the second was won by Dawson and Moodie chalked up yet another final win when he led home Dawson and Middler.

The first saloon race was the Champion of Champions with Glen going straight into the lead whilst behind McLaughlin and Strath fought it out for second place. In the end Glen enjoyed a comfortable win.

The Gordon Barclay Memorial race saw the drivers line up in their graded order but as they started the race Mayes rolled his car. Once the field reformed Glen was the early leader and quickly opened a gap. Kieran McIvor rode the wall but carried on.

Glen was now well clear of the field but two laps from the end he suffered a puncture and whilst the others started to close he held on to win from McLaughlin and Graeme Shevill.

The ORCi stock rods had quite a few visitors from Northern Ireland and England for the Open Scottish Championship.

James Gray was defending and got off to a good start when he won the first heat from Laing, Bethune, Wedderburn, Pitcaithly and Matson. Heat two saw Kevin Forrester win from Matson.

When the final started Forrester went straight into the lead from Archibald but Matson was going well and was leading the chase after the leaders. At half way Matson moved into second place and then began to close in on Forrester. The last few laps were close run affairs with Forrester just holding on to win from Matson, Archibald, Bethune and Pitcaithly.

There were 18 1300saloon drivers at the track although only 17 were eligible for the Scottish Championship. Amongst those in action were Lee Wilson (Comrie), Fraser Anderson (Cowdenbeath), Darren Rae (Lochgelly) and Callum Ferrance (Cowdenbeath), .

The drawn grid paired Stu McCaig and Brian Allan on the front row of the grid with Allan going straight into the lead as McCaig spun. Anderson moved into second and closed the gap and managed to take the lead after Allan was delayed when lapping a back marker. The race was suspended after Jordan Clark and Farrance tangled. Anderson then made a good re-start to the race before going on to win from Grant McGowan and Allan with Hastie fifth just ahead of Rae with Cosans eighth.

McGowan won heat one from Stu McCaig, Graham Swan and Rae, and Kevin Bruce won the second heat.

The microf2 drivers had a couple of heats to determine their grid places with Billie Dawson winning heat one and heat two saw Hannah Borthwick win from Tyler McGlurkin.

The Scottish Cup saw McClurkin and Billie Dawson share the front row but when the race started Lewis Burgoyne drove down the inside and into the lead. However, after a race suspension Burgoyne lost out when lapping back markers as Jamie Dawson took the lead. In the end Dawson won from Burgoyne.

The next meeting at the Racewall is on the 8th January when Big van bangers, micro bangers teams and ministox are in the bill. It’s a 1pm start.