Belle Vue Stock Cars

The Formula 1 Stock Cars rolled into Manchester’s Belle Vue yesterday.

Here’s a peek into the pits after heat 1.

Kings Lynn, F1 Stock Cars

Just back from the BriSCA F1 stock car world final at Kings Lynn.

I follow the Smith brothers. 391 Andy Smith & 390 Stu Smith Jnr. Cars pictured here in the pits before the race.
Both race 8 Litre powered Chevys. These stock cars are the most powerful that race together on a track anywhere in the world. More powerful than anything Jenson Button races. A F1 stock car is nothing like as quick, as they are heavy, but are designed to hand out, and withstand, massive hits from their fellow drivers, as well as belt round an oval track at high speed.

Well Andy Smith won. So he has held onto the title of World Champion, and gets to keep his gold painted roof to show that he has won the world final.
More info here.

Buxton Raceway, stock cars

www.buxtonraceway.com

I occasionally go watching Stock Car racing. This is one of the cars at Buxton Raceway. It’s a V8 Hot Stox. But it’s no ordinary stock car. This one is road legal. Taxed, MoT’ed, windscreen, lights, mirrors - non of which you’d normally see on a stock car. Built by Rob Maw 409. It’s never been in a real stock car race.

BriSCA Formula 1 Stock Car

Frank Wainman 212. Frank retired at the end of the 2007 season. His son Danny now races using his old number. His other son, Frank Junior, races very successfully under the number 515