Meeting Report- Mark Paulson
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A busy night of action at the Adrian Flux Arena featured 19 races and two destruction derbies. Rain during the day made for tricky conditions to start with but, once the wet top surface had been swept aside, the track held up well and produced some fine racing. BriSCA Formula 2 Stock Cars topped the bill, with #47 Greg McKenzie scoring his first final win for 14 months. Four domestic Banger classes produced plenty of lively action.
BriSCA F2 Stock Cars
There was a 51-car turnout of BriSCA F2s, including three Dutch visitors. An early yellow flag in Heat 1 helped the higher graded drivers make progress, but there was no catching #58 Charlie England, somewhat undergraded from Yellow. #47 Greg McKenzie battled through into second, with #324 Jordon Thackra third benefiting from a tangle between #113 Pat Issitt and #715 Scott Aldridge. #229 Steven Radzynski dominated Heat 2, leading from start to finish for a maiden win which left him absolutely delighted. Sole superstar #213 Tom Bennett did well to come through for second, ahead of #226 Billy Webster and new European champion #414 Josh Rayner. A busy consolation featured plenty of action, with #995 Michael Lund coming through for victory ahead of #318 Jamie Osborne and #147 Aidan Derry.
The complexion of the 32-car final changed with a mid-race caution. #795 Jason Clow had built a healthy lead, aided by his pursuers tangling just as they were about to challenge. With the track re-watered, Webster and McKenzie showed their experience to find the grip and pass both Clow and Bennett. McKenzie emerged in the lead and never looked back en route to his first final win of 2025. Webster was second and Bennett third, ahead of #69 Ben Chalkley. Debuting his new car, #393 Danny McCarthy was fifth, earning a new tyre as best yellow top for his efforts. Clow dropped to ninth but was still best white top and therefore also earned a new tyre.
Forty cars returned for the grand national. A relatively early yellow flag was called when #43 Marcus Gilbert found the fence and was collected by a few others. It had hardly got restarted when Gilbert’s fellow local #233 Rob Aldridge went for a big roll on the back straight. Red flags were shown and Aldridge clambered out before taking a bow. Clow continued his strong form as he led until beyond half-distance when passed by #129 Charley Tomblin. Tomblin went on to win from Clow and #271 Alex Butcher. McKenzie finished fourth from the full-lap handicap.
2-Litre Bangers
Among a disappointing entry of cars for the first 2026 World Championship qualifying round, the first heat was enlivened by #830 Lee White turning around on the back straight for a head on with #910 Jack Rookard, with #28 Mac Bell piling in to blitz Rookard. #50 Reece Laybourn led most of the race but lost out in the final stages, with #132 Robert James coming through to win, just holding off #188 John Reeves. Laybourn made no mistake in Heat 2, winning by a quarter of a lap. A good scrap for second was decided in favour of #340 Wes Freestone from #126 Daniel Bowley and #188 John Reeves. In almost a repeat, Laybourn took another comfortable win in the final while Bowley pipped Freestone to second. Not many took part in the DD, with #69 Brad Bartram eventually finishing off Rookard with a couple of stiff shots.
Micro Bangers
There may only have been 21 Micro Bangers in action but they put on a show. Action in Heat 1 came from #644 Alfie Sime blitzing #260 Ricky Hodson and later turning around to take out leader #307 Luke Thompson, while a wrecking train under the scoreboard involved #411 James Gilding, #518 Kieran Kinghorn and #311 Garry Lown. #155 Sam Coote benefited from Thompson’s demise and just held off Team Bash team-mate #673 Darren Fendley for victory, Fendley having dumped #869 Jamie Steele into the pile under the scoreboard. Sime was at it again in Heat 2; after having a private destruction derby with #66 Shane Norley, he took out #443 Justin Warren from second place, with #428 Nick Ashbridge and #93 Lewis Godfrey also getting caught up. That handed Sunderland-based Thompson a big lead and the long-distance traveller went on to take a maiden victory before copping a hit from Sime on the run-down lap. #757 Callum Gill was second and #673 Darren Fendley third.
Sime had a taste of his own medicine in the final when Norley turned around to deliver a stiff head-on. Norley then took some hits from #335 Lee White and #372 James Cable as #515 Reagan Flatters marked his senior debut by dumping #190 Ben Germany from the lead and taking victory from Thompson and #757 Callum Gill. The DD produced plenty of big hits, with Flatters starring in the closing stages. He turned around for a big head-on with Ashbridge, who also had Godfrey and White in his tail. White and Flatters did another lap before piling into the train with Flatters declared the victor.
Unlimited Lady Bangers
A 20-car turnout of Unlimited Lady Bangers included plenty of tin, with the Jaguar XK8 (albeit V6-powered) of #473 Zoe Nicholls topping the bill. Heat 1 was won by the well-used Jaguar X300 of #28 Chloe Bricknell from #841 Sharon Jennings’ Mk2 Granada and #298 Bryoni Chapman (Mercedes). Spedeworth world champion #488 Codie Reeves (Ford Scorpio) made light work of coming through from the back of the field to win Heat 2 from #142 Adelle Walmsley and #150 Katelynn Parrin. In a cracking finish to the final, Walmsley and Parrin were bearing down on long-time leader Bricknell. Walmsley got inside with just over a lap to go but immediately felt a big hit from Parrin behind, who shifted both cars to take the lead in her Mercedes. Parrin came through for a her second consecutive final win, with Bricknell managing second and Walmsley third.
Junior Bangers
A turnout of 41 cars was enough for a full-format meeting with half-car heats. #556 Lincoln Douglas was making light work of the first until he ran wide onto the heavy part of track among backmarking traffic on the final lap. #85 Jade Ellis and #08 Taylor Morton came through on the inside, with Morton then snatching the lead before Ellis got back in front on the final bend. #272 Riley Crowson led Heat 2 from start to finish, winning by half a lap from #13 Beau Jeanes and #618 Stanley Gill. A lively consolation went the way of #43 Jayden Bishop, in only his second appearance at King’s Lynn, after long-time leader #290 Bailey Holmes got caught out avoiding dead cars on the home straight. In his last Junior Banger outing, #669 William Cartwright led the final from start to finish, leading home #41 Archie Horwood and Crowson. An action-packed allcomers featured several stoppages and a roll for #15 Kiean Mayes. Douglas had already made good progress by the time the race got going for any sustained mileage and duly picked off Holmes for victory.