IT was another sunny evening at the Cowdenbeath Racewall on Saturday for the BriSCA F2 and Saloon Stock Car Turner Trophies, writes our Racewall reporter Jack Watson.
Also in action were the Micro F2s, who were also racing for their Turner Trophy, plus the Prostocks and the latest demonstration outing from the Street Stox.
A close battle throughout the F2 Final saw Graeme Leckie move clear in the closing stages to win.
Zak Gilmour took the Saloon version for the second time in three years after reeling in long time leader Kyle Hegg.
Harry Yule took the top honours in the Micro F2 class after some brilliant dicing throughout the field.
Later in the meeting Jaxson Watters was sent up the wall after being involved in a three car tangle on the turnstile bend.
The first race for the Prostocks saw a big crash at the end of the race featuring Paul Barron and Paul McNulty Jnr, with Barron's car looking sorry for itself at the end of the race.
Callum Elliot took a pair of wins on his track debut, while Dylan Dickson won the Final, his first win at the Racewall.
Among the BriSCA F2 drivers at the track was Paul Moffat, who was racing for the first time this season.
Brian Hogg and Richard Walden were the early leaders in the first heat before Peter Watt took over.
Further back, there was a good battle between Paul Reid Jnr (Cowdenbeath) and Cameron McDonald, who ran side by side for several laps.
Steven Burgoyne was making quick progress through the field and had hit the front as the lap boards appeared, before going on to win. Second went to John Hogg and Watt was third.
Walden led heat two until just before half distance when Watt took over. J. Hogg and Burgoyne were again moving quickly through the field with J. Hogg taking full advantage when Watt had a bad moment on the final lap to take the win.
Walden led the Final for the majority of the race, while the battle for second centred around Graeme Leckie and Watt, although the latter soon had to deal with the attentions of J. Hogg and Burgoyne.
This allowed Leckie to move clear and past Walden for the lead, and while Burgoyne and J. Hogg gave pursuit Leckie had enough of a gap to take the win.
The Grand National saw a second win of the evening for Burgoyne, who led J. Hogg and Watt across the line.
It was good to see another field of over twenty Saloon Stock Cars at the Racewall, which included a second appearance of the year for Joshua Donavan.
Owen Marshall led the first heat for the vast majority of the race, only losing out in the closing stages to Ross Watters (Kennoway) who had escaped from the battle for positions among the blue graders. Marshall held on for second and third went to Zak Gilmour.
Dale Robertson and Grady Ross (Lochgelly) were among those to become acquainted with the wall at the start of heat two, which was again led by Marshall but he exited the race on the back straight leaving Hegg with a substantial lead.
Kayden Ogilvie was sent spinning by the pack a couple of times while Donavan and Kalin Bryson (Cowdenbeath) tangled up on the last corner of the race.
Watters had began to close the gap to Hegg but found himself dealing with the attentions of a pack of star graders, which helped Hegg to a relatively trouble-free run to the flag. Z. Gilmour was second and Kai Gilmour third.
Rhys Anderson was the early leader of the Final but was overtaken by Hegg and shuffled down the pack.
Rae was sent into the pit bend wall heavily but was able to continue, while Watters spun on the entry to the home straight and caught Barry Russell in the process, which sent the latter into a marker tyre and while he did rejoin, it was a lap down.
Hegg led until the lap boards appeared, when Z. Gilmour took over and went on to win. Hegg was second and Adsley was third.
There were a handful of new faces in the Prostocks with two of them, Jack Dougall and Stuart Hall (Methil) having a coming together at the start of the opening heat.
Marc Dickson (Kirkcaldy) suffered an intermittent problem that forced him into retirement, while Lewis Gilchrist collected the pit bend wall which sidelined him for the rest of the race.
Callum Elliot (Buckhaven) led but was being caught as the laps dwindled by Paul Barron (Cardenden).
Then, as Barron was attempting to lap Paul McNulty Snr, Paul McNulty Jnr (Cowdenbeath) who was sitting in third place collected the rear of Barron's car heavily, ending his evening while McNulty Jnr landed himself in hot water with the Steward of the meeting.
Elliot was the race winner, ahead of Ian Christie and Dougie Kidd. Dougall led the early stages of the second heat but tangled with Elliot before collecting the wall, which ended his night's racing.
Garry Roberts was sent into the wall by Kidd a couple of laps later but both were deemed to be in a position of relative safety and the race was able to continue.
Elliot held off a late challenge from Christie to win with Dylan Dickson (Kirkcaldy) in third.
M. Dickson was an early casualty in the Final, when he hit the back straight wall and lost a wheel, although the wheel rolled to safety and the race carried on.
Then, during another battle between Elliot and Christie, the latter clipped a marker tyre and was left stranded in the middle of the track, necessitating a stoppage. D. Dickson led the restart and went on to record his first win at the Racewall, ahead of Gilchrist who pinched second place from Elliot on the last corner.
There were nearly twenty Micro F2 drivers at the track including English visitors Hallie and Maggie Bate.
Their first race was for the Turner Trophy, which was led for the first half by Jack Haldane (Kelty). Harry Yule arrived on the scene and took the lead, before pulling away from the lead group to take the win.
Jaxson Watters (Kennoway) was the runner-up and Jake Ramage was third.
The second heat was brought to a premature conclusion after a multi-car tangle at the end of the home straight saw Haldane clobber the pit gate while Honeyman was collected a couple of times by passing traffic.
Yule was clear when the race was stopped and thus recorded his second win of the evening, Ramage was second and Johnstone third.
Jaydyn Wilson (Kelty) was the leader of the third heat when Johnstone, Honeyman and Watters came together on the turnstile bend with Watters' car briefly on its side.
Brown was involved in the action again at the restart, with Amber Watson clouting the fence when avoiding the stricken car.
Wilson led until two laps remaining when Lewis McFarlane made his way through to win. Wilson held on for second and Ramage was third.
The Street Stox made another demonstration appearance, and the first race went the way of Scott Turner with Bryan Thomson (Lochgelly) second.
The positions were reversed in the second race with Thomson leading home Turner, but it was Turner who won race three ahead of Thomson and Ryan Geddes.
This week at the Racewall, the Heritage F2 Stock Cars make their annual trip north for the Scottish Championship.
The BriSCA F2 Stock Cars have an important evening of racing with both the Mac100 Trophy and Chapman Trophy up for grabs, while there is also racing from the Saloon Stock Cars, ORCi Ministox and Micro F2s.
The meeting is scheduled to start at 5.30pm.
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