The first half of the season came to a close at the Cowdenbeath Racewall on a warm and sunny evening on Saturday and for those who are planning to “go on a summer holiday” let’s hope that you have better luck than Neil Naismith.

Neil brought his van banger all the way from Irvine only to be spun during the midpoint of the opening heat and then brought the race to a premature close when his van rolled on the back straight (see our pictures).

For the second week in succession there was a rollover in the 1300cc saloons with this time Grant McGowan tangling with Dale Burt and Pete Honeyman resulting in McGowan’s car ending up on its roof.

James Matson dominated the stock rod races winning all three but during heat two was chased all the way to the chequer by Simon Morris. Steven Archibald appeared in the ex Calvin car whilst Martin Rankine had bought a car from Siobhan Martin Marc Honeyman won the first two saloon races but then Luke Grief took over winning heat two the final and then the Allcomers race.

Danny Colliver made yet another visit to the Racewall as he chases the National Points Championship whilst the local drivers were Ross Watters (Leven) and Alec Cunningham (Leven).

The opening heat was another white/yellow challenge race with Marc Honeyman going through to grab a win from Cunningham and Chris Carey.

The opening formula heat saw M. Honeyman carry on where he left off going through to win from Luke Grief and Colliver with Watters in seventh place. Heat two saw Grief go through to win from M. Honeyman and Colliver with Watters in eighth.

Addison Weir led the cars away when the final started but on lap three M. Honeyman was ahead but had Carey and Graham running in close order.

Grief made short work of the blue graders and then set off after the leading cars, picking them off one by one until he was the new leader. Carey was spun whilst Ian McLaughlin, Paul Honeyman and Colliver were fighting over third spot but were being reeled in by Ross Watters and Graham. However there was to be no stopping Grief and he went on for an easy win leading home M. Honeyman and McLaughlin whilst Watters finished in sixth place.

The Allcomers saw Grief go on to make it a hat trick of wins when he went on to win from Colliver and Carey with Watters again in sixth.

Pete Honeyman was a new addition to the 1300cc saloons with the local drivers being Lee Wilson (Comrie), Dale Burt (Lochgelly) and Arron Hastie (Ceres).

Honeyman almost won the opening heat but when clipped by second placed Brian Allan lost ground with the latter going on to win from Honeyman and McGowan and Burt with Hastie sixth and Wilson seventh.

Heat two was eventful with McGowan rolling then Amanda Mitchell being sent wide into the top bend wall before the car came to rest in the middle of the track. Hastie went one way, Graham Swan the other and it was the latter who went through to win from Honeyman and Hastie with Wilson in fifth.

Allan went on to win the final where he crossed the finish line ahead of Honeyman and Hastie with Wilson again in fifth.

Amongst the stock rod drivers in action were Chris Chance, Simon Morris, Craig Winter and Keith Watson from Barford whilst local interest centred around James Matson (Glenrothes), Steven Archibald (Glenrothes) and Jim Pitcaithly (Thornton).

Heat one saw Matson go through to win from Rankine and Paul Prentice. In heat two Matson was hounded all the way to the flag by Morris, Prentice and Archibald.

Archibald led the cars away when the final started but when Prentice made his bid for the lead made contact and spun. Chance moved ahead a few laps later but was soon to come under pressure from Matson and within a couple of laps Matson was leading. Chance, however, held on but just couldn’t close the gap allowing Matson through for his hat trick with Morris in third whilst Pitcaithly was fourth and Archibald in sixth.

The opening van banger heat saw Zak Murdoch lead from start to finish but in that time he sent N. Naismith spinning and then within a couple of laps caught him back up and when he tried to spin him sent his van rolling. Murdoch went on to win from Roger Seymour.

In the final Shaun Walsh sent Murdoch into a spin with Naismith joining in. Seymour went on to win but made contact with Murdoch and then sent him spinning. In the end Seymour crashed straight into the back of Naismith’s van and in doing so locked Naismith’s and Walsh’s cars together and was declared the winner.

In the Microf2s the local drivers were Rebecca Reid (Cowdenbeath) and Leon Muir (Thornton).

Jamie Dawson won the opening heat from Reid and Muir. Dawson then won heat two from Reid and Hannah Borthwick. Dawson spun at the start to the final and it was Borthwick who just fended off Reid to win with Muir again in third.

Well that is the last meeting before the summer break starts but over the next few weeks the formula II drivers are in for a busy time of it.

At present the race for the National Points Championship focuses on three Scottish drivers George MacMillan Jnr, Chris Burgoyne and Craig Wallace with MacMillan Jnr leading the race by around 100 points.

The formula II drivers were contesting a World Championship qualifying round at Crimond on Saturday where heat wins went to Paul Butcher and Paul Munro with Burgoyne winning the consolation race. Stuart Kelly won the final from MacMillan Jnr and Burgoyne.

For the formula IIs there are World Championship meetings at Buxton on 4th July, the 5th at St Day and the penultimate one is at Taunton on the 7th so Scottish drivers who are hoping to get onto one of the semi-final grids may have to look at doing all three. After that they have the UK Challenge at Skegness over the weekend of the 11/12th then the European Championship at Northampton over the weekend of the18t/19th. The last qualifying round is at Skegness on the 23rd July.

The saloon drivers are not quite as busy having Skegness over the 11/12th July which count for points for the World Championship grid whilst there are various other meeting south of the border which are open to them.

The stock cars return to the Racewall on the 18th July with 2 litre saloons, the national hot rods in a world Championship qualifying round, the 1300cc saloons, the micoF2s whilst the minis will be contesting the Colin Scott Memorial trophy. Oh by the way Gordon Moodie returned from his ban racing at Crimond on Sunday afternoon starting off with a third in heat one but he then went on to win heat two. In a very wet final he brought his car home in the runners up spot behind the eventual winner Graham Kelly.