NOVEMBER 2022 ….
We completed our season with the Mini 7s’ “Winter” championship
round at Brands Hatch, supported by the very popular truck
racing, the Kent Oval Outlaws’ season closer at Lydden, the
final RTS meeting at Swaffham, and unfortunately what would this
time definitely be our last ever visit to the already much
missed Angmering Oval Raceway.
OCTOBER
2022 ….
As the season began to wind down, we only managed to fit in five
events during October. Two of these were with the Rolling
Thunder Show at Swaffham, with another Kent Outlaws meeting at
Lydden. We planned two visits to Tongham, but the final date
proved to be the SEGTO track’s first rain-out of the year. From
two of our favourite tracks to one of our least favourites, the
Mini 7 Racing Club’s national season ended on the
“International” circuit at Silverstone
SEPTEMBER 2022 ....
One of
our most eagerly awaited treats of this year was the Mini Seven
Racing Club's first visit to the spectacular Anglesey circuit at
the beginning of the month, which didn’t disappoint. The rest of
our September plans centred around some of our regular venues
including Swaffham, Lydden, the SEGTO Championship final at
Tongham, the Outlaw F2 Stox Open Championship at Standlake Arena
and, sadly, the second of the special "farewell" meetings for
Angmering Oval Raceway.
AUGUST
2022 ...
The highlight of August these
days has to be the annual Mini Festival at Brands Hatch, with a
packed race programme highlighted by the Mini Seven Racing Club
classes, and plenty of off track attractions (including a
display by the Kent Oval Outlaws, combining two of our current
racing interests). As the heatwave continued, we also took a bit
of much needed time away from the tracks, so our only other
events were the Rolling Thunder Show's "World Finals" meeting at Swaffham and the two-day Bank Holiday event at Tongham. Clashing
commitments kept us away from a lot of events we'd normally
prioritise, including the All Ireland Autograss finals at West
Waterford, the summer edition of the East Cork Fun Sprint at
Watergrasshill and the 51st Fastest Man on Grass at Lincoln.
JULY 2022 ....
In the sweltering heat of July,
we continued to keep our oval racing action relatively local,
with two visits to the Rolling Thunder Show's Swaffham meetings
and one each to Tongham Motor Club. As well as the latest
instalment in the Kent Oval Outlaws' successful season, we took
in a rare day's circuit racing at Lydden with the added
attraction of the second UK outing of the year for V8 Late
Models. The Mini Seven Racing Club's latest round at Donington
Park provided further circuit racing. At the end of the month we
maintained our "sabbatical" from Autograss racing, missing our
first Nationals since 1989 as other commitments just couldn't
make time for it.
JUNE 2022
....
Our June schedule kickED off
over the Jubilee Holiday weekend with two visits to Angmering,
including the third SEGTO Championship round. Then we followED
the Mini Seven season to Castle Combe, before further events at
Swaffham. We returned to Angmering for the last annual Scott
West Memorial meeting, where a good turnout of Hot Rods produced
a memorable day, followed by another visit to the Kent Oval
Outlaws at Lydden, rounding the month off with a special event
to commemmorate Tongham Motor Club's 50th anniversary.
MAY 2022
....
We enjoyed a busy month
of May, starting with the second SEGTO Championship round at Angmering
and followed by further visits to Standlake Arena,
The Kent Oval Outlaws at Lydden Hill, Tongham Motor Club and
Swaffham Raceway, plus
what's always one of the highlights of the Mini Seven season at Cadwell
Park.
APRIL 2022
....
A full and varied month taking
advantage of all the sunshine, with one highlight being
our first visit to the new Kent Outlaw Oval Racing club that's
establishing a new style of oval motorsport, very successfully,
at Lydden Hill. Two days of excellent racing at Snetterton with
the Mini Seven Racing Club, two more Saturday night dates with
the Rolling Thunder Show at Swaffham, two very well supported
SEGTO meetings at Tongham Motor Club and an Easter Monday trip
to Standlake Arena completed a busy month.
MARCH 2022
....
Our outings in March were
restricted to two events; the first round of the SEGTO
Championship, which would again be contested over three hard
surface rounds at Angmering and three on dirt at Tongham, and
the first event of the Rolling Thunder Show's busy Saturday
night season at Swaffham. Our month was due to be completed with
the first rounds of The Mini Seven Racing Club's Championships
at Silverstone, but Covid had finally caught up with us....
JANUARY AND
FEBRUARY 2022 ....
It
was a
promising start to the year, despite the cancellations of
the Autosport show, Motorsport with Attitude and Race Retro. Our
year kicked off with the revival of the Oval Racing Expo, which
provided a superb day's racing at Swaffham, if not quite on the
scale yet of past events at Arena Essex. At the end of January
we at last made it back to Ireland for the East Cork Hot Rod
Club's Loftus Haulage Funsprint at Watergrasshill.
Mid-February saw
us back on more local ground, for the season opener at Standlake
Arena. Even at this stage of the year we were feeling the effect
of clashing fixtures, with our last few outings keeping us away
from the first very well supported events of what's sadly going
to be the last season at Angmering Oval Raceway, but we were
hoping to return to the south coast venue very soon.
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