IT was a night of two Scottish Championships at the Cowdenbeath Racewall on Saturday with the saloon version decided late on whilst the lightning rod version was decided right at the start of the event.

Stuart Shevill Jnr went on to make it four saloon Scottish Championships in succession but Stuart Drobinski gave him a hard time of it over the closing stages, whilst Alex Rogan went straight into the lead when the lightning race started and pulled away to win comfortably.

Craig Reid returned to the formula IIs in his brother Paul’s car and it was his first outing since 2006. However, fellow white grader, Brian Hogg Jnr, hit mechanical troubles and didn’t even make it onto the track.

Amongst the formula II drivers in action was Robbie Dawson, who has won the Crimond track points championship, whilst Paul Reid was back up to the blue grade and Stevie Forster to red.

Liam Rennie brought out his car, complete with the Zetec engine, which is being tested for a replacement for the present 2 litre Pinto engine.

The local drivers in action were Paul and Craig Reid (Cowdenbeath), Raymond Dick (Glenrothes), Kieran Howie (Dunfermline) and Gordon Moodie (Windygates).

The opening heat saw Gordon Moodie go through to win from Dennis Middler and P. Reid with Howie in ninth place. Although Moodie was first home in heat two he was penalised for an infringement with the win going to Chris Burgoyne who was ahead of Craig Wallace, with Moodie in third place and P. Reid fifth.

When the final started Holly Glen was the first to show as she led Kieran Howie and Raymond Dick off the line. Reid had also made a good start to the race and he was soon closing.

Dennis Middler was another going well but he soon had Moodie in close order. The leading cars bunched with Moodie emerging as the new leader from Middler. Dawson got ahead of Reid to move into fourth and then his sights on the cars ahead. Moodie was pulling away, but Dawson caught and passed Middler whilst Burgoyne was reeling in the cars ahead.

Rennie was showing up well with the Zetec engine and he moved into the top six, relegating Reid down a place.

Moodie then reeled off the remaining laps to pick up another final win as well as the Turner Trophy and he led home Dawson and Burgoyne with P. Reid seventh and Howie in tenth place.

The Grand National gave Dawson his first win of the night and he crossed the finish line ahead of Burgoyne and Wallace with P. Reid fifth, and Moodie in sixth place.

There were 18 saloon drivers on the grid for the Scottish Championship but missing due to injury were Willie Mitchell and Kyle Irvine.

The public draw saw Glen Heeps start from pole with Ross Watters (Leven) alongside, Alex Cunningham (Leven) on row six along with the defending champion, Stuart Shevill Jnr, whilst Kyle Hegg (Leslie) was on row nine.

Heeps led the field away with Watters tucking in behind whilst Graeme Shevill appeared in third and next time around Watters sent Heeps wide as G. Shevill took the lead.

S Shevill Jnr was pushed wide by Barry Russell but despite clipping the wall was able to continue. Barry Glen lost second to Stuart Drobinski whilst Heeps and Addison Weir both retired. Then Cunningham clipped a marker tyre going into the pit bend and spun and was promptly caught by Glen and Luke Grief and a few others with the race being stopped.

G. Shevill led on the restart from Drobinski but soon retired with Paul Honeyman chasing and S. Shevill Jnr beginning to catch the leading duo. Towards the closing stages Shevill Jnr took the lead but couldn’t shake off Drobinski. On the last bend Drobinski made a move to reclaim the lead but failed and it was Shevill Jnr who went on to win from Drobinski and P. Honeyman, with Watters in fifth.

In the heat which followed Shevill Jnr won from Drobinski and Marc Honeyman with Hegg fifth. Shevill Jnr then made it a clean sweep when he won the final from Drobinski, P. Honeyman and Hegg with Watters in seventh place.

The Scottish lightning rod championship saw Alex Rogan start from pole position with Tam Ross alongside, Sean Farrell (Glenrothes) on row three, and Sean Devine (Leslie) and Gordon Brown (Leven) sharing row five. When the green flag dropped Rogan made a good start but had Ross alongside for quite some time before the latter dropped in behind.

Rogan led from start to finish to win from Chrissy Dearn and David Hughes with Farrell in sixth and Brown seventh.

Hughes won the heat which followed from Ormond Dearn, Gary Nicholls and Farrell. The final ended with Nicholls taking a close win over O. Dearn with Hughes third just ahead of Farrell.

There weren’t too many stock rods about but that didn’t preclude some close and fast racing. Amongst those racing were David Dignan (Leven), John Venters (Dunfermline) and Michael Bethune (Kirkcaldy).

Bethune went on to win the opening heat from Siobhan Martin and John McAllister. In heat two Leon Stewart had to fend off Martin and Bethune to claim a close win with Dignan fifth and Venters sixth.

Martin then went on to win the final and pick up the Turner Trophy from Bethune and McAllister with Dignan fifth..

The MicroF2s were back in action with the numbers growing on a weekly basis. There were a few spins and shunts but Teri Linden proved to be the driver to beat and she ended up winning despite having to start with a quarter of a lap handicap.

It is going to be another busy night with the formula IIs, saloons prostox and National Hot rod drivers in action this Saturday.

The formula IIs and saloons drivers will be contesting the white/yellow challenge finals whilst the prostox drivers have their Scottish Championship to decide. The meeting starts at 6pm.