IT was a chilly Sunday afternoon at the Cowdenbeath Racewall where the annual holiday meeting took place with the drivers having to overcome a wet and slippery track.

The main race of the afternoon was the Junior Banger Scottish Championship, which was sponsored by JD Salvage Services and whilst the Scottish drivers turned up the visiting drivers didn’t!

However, Connor McElmef and Declan McFarran were welcome visitors from Northern Ireland, in the prostox and microF2 formula, whilst there were quite a few drivers down from Crimond for the meeting.

Ian Cameron rolled his micro banger, made up mostly of Ford Ka’s, in a high speed shunt on the top bend whilst quite a few cars received a lot of damage after a big shunt on the pit bend.

Teri Linden made her debut in the minis and soon showed that she is going to be a good driver, with her micro F2 now in the hands of Hannah Borthwick.

There were 30 micro banger drivers at the track, including ex-saloon and hot rod driver Pete McVay Snr, whilst there was a big contingent of drivers who had headed down from the north of Scotland.

The opening heat was led off by McVay Snr but was stopped within a couple of laps after Cameron’s car rolled in a shunt on the top bend and once the track was cleared and the grid was reformed, this time it was Pete McVay Jnr who led the cars away, whilst Ian Garvock was sent around the wall and spun.

Mark Morrison moved into second place ahead of John Taylor while James Dillon got caught up in a shunt on the pit bend which ensnared quite a few cars and cutting down access around the bend. However, there was to be no stopping McVay Jnr and he went through to win from Taylor and Ryan Farquhar.

In heat two there was another early stoppage after a car shed a wheel whilst Ryan Scott was shunted heavily into the pit bend wall and Bob Low’s race ended after he crashed into the wall on the main straight. Mark Delgarno led for a few laps but towards the closing stages McVay Jnr charged through to win from Taylor and Delgarno.

At the start to the final Michael Kennedy was clipped and half spun resulting in the cars behind making contact. Zander Brown crashed heavily into the wall and was caught by quite a few drivers in close order suspending the race. On the restart McVay Jnr charged straight into the lead before going on to win from Taylor and David McCleary.

There were quite a few cars pulled off after the final but those who had been on the sidelines joined in for the destruction derby. Immediately cars piled into each other with four cars coming to grief on the pit bend. In the end Taylor and Colin Murdoch went head to head with the latter being adjudged as the last car running.

The Junior banger field was depleted even before the racing started with the visiting drivers failing to turn up.

The three Scottish cars started line abreast and when the race started Lewis McLean outdragged James Dillon Jnr off the line to lead. Rhys Easton (Glenrothes) spun on the opening lap and whilst Dillon Jnr chased couldn’t close the gap with McLean going through to win.

McLean won heat one from Easton and Dillon whilst McLean won the second heat from Dillon Jnr and Easton.

Linden was the only new face in the minis, Conner Bruce was down from Crimond whilst John Crawford (Cowdenbeath) was the local driver in action.

Arran Chidwick was in the lead within the opening quarter of the race and whilst he was chased all the way by Bryan Lindsay and Euan Millar, fended them off to take a comfortable win. In heat two it was Charlie Folan who made the early break and he quickly built up a useful lead. When Millar appeared in second the gap began to close but Folan was still clear going on to a comfortable win from Millar and Chidwick, with Crawford in fourth place.

Crawford led the cars away when the final started but he was soon reeled in by Folan who sent him spinning as he took the lead. However, Chidwick had got the better of Lindsay and was then making up ground on those ahead rapidly.

The cars were nose to tail over the closing laps with Chidwick just getting inside of Folan to take the win. Folan was a couple of cars lengths adrift whilst Millar was third and a recovering Crawford taking fifth place.

The prostox drivers were racing for their Winter Challenge with Ryan Harrow making his Racewall debut. Local drivers in action were Harrow (Leslie), Ricky White (Thornton), Stevie Gold (Leven) and Callum McIvor (Inverkeithing).

McIvor led heat one from start to finish to pick up his first win and he led home Tam Melrose, Ally McDonald and Gold with Harrow in sixth place. McIvor led heat two for a good many laps only to be sent wide and then spun by Stevie Gold. However, this let Dougie Kidd close right up and as Gold was recovering Kidd dived through into the lead and once there went on to win from Gold with Melrose third.

McIvor led the cars away when the final started but when Harrow was sent spinning into the wall the race was suspended. McIvor led the cars away on the restart but then lost out as Gold went through into the lead. Behind Gold, Scott Ramsay, Melrose, McDonald and Kidd started to fight over second and whilst they swapped places on a regular basis this allowed Gold to pull away. In the end it was an easy win for Gold with Melrose grabbing second from Kidd in what was a very close finish with White in sixth place.

The microF2 drivers had Jimmy Cartmel and Scott Allardyce in the hire cars whilst Hannah Borthwick was in the ex-Linden car.

Heat one saw Borthwick just fend off McFarran to win whilst in heat two McFarran won from Jamie Dawson.

The final saw Allardyce go straight into the lead and slowly pull away before winning from Dawson and McFarran.

The stock car season starts in March and there are quite a few championship meetings scheduled to head to the Racewall in what is hoped to be another exciting season.