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Headlines>> 30/04/08 - Eddie Freeman's Funeral For those that wish to attend, Eddie's funeral will be held on Thursday 8th May @12.45 at St Martins Church, Fincham, Norfolk. 28/04/08 - Obituary - Eddie Freeman It is with deep regret to sadly report that Eddie Freeman, Former Superstox 255 passed away yesterday, after a 5 year battle with cancer. Eddie aged 60 raced superstox from 1988 when the cars were National spec, up until 2002 when he first became ill. More recently he has been supporting his Son-in-Law, Shaun Brooker in his racing. Eddie will be sadly missed and our deepest sympathy go out to his family and friends. 06/04/08 - Jackson Wins London Championship Steven Jackson is the New London Champion.
24/03/08 - Ipswich Race report
Heat 1 - 41 cars
Heat 2 The race was restarted and non starters were 454, 94 and 127. The track was still slippery and 279 went wide on restart and 10 slid wide and was collected by 82 and 27. 41 spun out and got hit by 484. Upfront 279 got pushed wide by 336. 10 crashed at the end of home straight with the back wheel snapped right off and the brake disc and other bit of the car on the track. 41, 36 and 4 all hit the wall and 416 and 40 were also both out on the scoreboard bend. The track was still very slippery and 483 got pushed into the wall on the scoreboard bend. There were cars spinning off all over the place as the snow continued to come down. According to scoreboard 686 was leading 58 and 21, but it was 393 leading 686 with 482 now up to 3rd 58 4th and 51 5th. 393 crossed the line to take the win ahead of 482 and 686. Jason Cooper had the ride on the Control car, but after checking the transponder readouts the win was awarded to Dean Hummerstone.
Final Race report by: Derek Fear 20/03/08 - Ipswich Bank Holiday Monday Despite the risk of bad weather over the Easter weekend it hasn't put off any driver booking in for Ipswich on Bank Holiday Monday. At the close of today the following 41 drivers have booked in which includes several new drivers making their debut:
20/03/08 - Midget Driver switches to Superstox Former Midget driver Dave Smith, who was featured in the November issue of Short Circuit is the latest of a list of new drivers joining the Superstox. Dave started racing at 13 in the Ministox at Ringwood in 1998. He wrote off his self built car in the final of his first meeting, then bought a new car and got to red grade after about a year. At 16 he sold the mini and bought a 1300 Starlet stock car and got to blue grade, before selling the car at 18, to buy the GP Midget, that he raced up to the end of 2007. Dave's scored some good results in the midget (3rd in 2007 world, 3rd in 2004 British, 2nd in the 2006 Irish cup and 2nd in the 2004 Euro). Dave has acquired the ex Mark Crisell superstox and hopes to be out racing in about 6 weeks. He is looking forward to racing against his former Midget racer/friend Andy Collins. 16/03/08 - Former World Champ to Return There is strong rumour that Former World and Multi Champion, Mark Kelman is planning a come back to Superstox. 12/03/08 - Short Circuit Link Just a reminder to order a copy of the Short Circuit Magazine or to renew your annual subscription, please click on the oval shop link at the top of this page. For all orders received via this site I earn a small commission which helps towards to running costs of this site. Thanks. 03/03/08 - Another new driver The former Colin Bradley Higman, more recently owned by Kevin Hardy #63 has been sold. Chris Watts has bought the car for his 17 year old son Ashley, who used to race Mini's at Standlake Arena in Oxford. 20/02/08 - Autograss drivers switch to Superstox There will be 3 new drivers out in a Superstox this year mainly thanks to Superstox Driver Darren Cornwell #27. Darren has convinced 3 Ex Autograss mates to buy a Superstox. First to convert was Simon Williams #52, who has bought Jason Barraclough's #314 HCD car in January and after a bit of testing hopes to make his debut around Easter. Next was Tony Wilson #10, who has bought Mac McCutcheon's #34 HCD. After a few practice laps at Arena a debut Easter Monday at Ipswich is likely. The other (for the meantime) is Mark Hall who has just bought Terry Spooner's #406 Randall as a rolling chassis, and hopes to get an engine built and get out on track as soon as possible. Darren said, "There's nothing wrong with grassin, if two of them had sold their race cars they would have been out last year, its just seems to have happened all at once. But provided you don't crash on the first lap there is a lot more track time and I don't miss having to jet wash the car off after every meeting" One final point in this story is all 3 cars were sold as direct result of this website, so if you have a Superstox For Sale there is no better place to advertise it than here. You never know some of Darren's other Autograss mates may buy it :-) 16/02/08 - Website back up Apologies to our readers for the website being down for most of this week, but as you can see its now back up and working. Being out of the country on business this week did not help in getting it sorted sooner, and I still do not exactly know the route of the problem, so I hope it does not happen again? 11/02/08 - For Sale Ex Shaun Brooker HCD Superstox added to the for sale page. 04/02/08 - Picture Problems I've recently noticed that lots of the picture galleries have disappeared. According to the FlickR website it tells me "You've run into one of the limits of a free account. When you moved from Yahoo! Photos, you were given a free trial of Flickr pro - our premium account that comes with unlimited storage and uploads. But, that's expired". I am in the process of looking into a new Free photo sharing site with unlimited storage. However if anyone can recommend such a site then please drop me an E-mail. 04/02/08 - Walmsley - Supers First Priority The oval racing legends website (www.ukovaltracklegends.homecall.co.uk) has recently reported that Mike Walmsley has snapped up Micky Preston #36 oval Legend car. Mike's wife Hilary has confirmed Mike has bought a Legend but stresses, "I'm afraid you haven't got rid of Mike yet! Superstox is the first and only formula he has ever raced in and he just fancied a go in something different. Superstox will still be his first priority but he has bought the Legend to try out and have some fun with. It will be a busy year as we are building a house too which Mike has been cracking on with recently". 25/01/08 - Wimbledon 27/01/08 Drivers List
2 Andy Collins 18/01/08 - Superstox at Coventry?
Derek Fear recently came across the website for Coventry Bees Speedway, and was suprised to see this picture of Darren Cornwell's #27 Superstox on their site. The picture is used as a link to Stock car racing at Coventry Stadium, but it seems a strange picture to use when Superstox don't race at that stadium? Click here to see the site
13/01/08 - NEC News Yesterday I visited the annual Autosport Show at the NEC Birmingham. The rumours regarding Sparkie having a CBM (Burgoyne) car were true and it looked very good on the raised platform on the Spedeworth stand. Other new Superstox on display and a suprise to me were a HCD of Daniel Rutterford. Daniel used to race under the #144 in the National Superstox era, before moving to F2's. However this time around Daniel's will race under the #4. The other car also a HCD belonged to Jody Rutterford #94, and will be running a solid front axel rather than the common wishbones. Pictures of all 3 cars can be found by clicking here or via the picture gallery. 07/01/08 - Who's Superstox is this? Many thanks to Steve Linfield for getting in touch and confirming this was his Dad's old car. This is what Steve had to say:
That was indeed my
dad's old car, and I raced it for a few meetings at Ringwood in 1995 too.
We then sold it in 1996 to a guy called John Harris who raced it a few times
and his son whose name I cant remember, but raced Bangers there too also had
a go. They only did a couple of meetings in it between them, but when we
were still racing down there (98, 99, 00 etc) they were often watching
saying that they were going to come out again at some point. Clearly they
cut the cage off and got as far as that.
Cheers 06/01/08 - Back for 2008! Back for 2008 is the winners page and an unofficial Track Championship page. Both pages can be found by clicking the relevant link at the top of the page. 04/01/08 - Who's Superstox is this? Jerry Fisher has been in touch and has recently come across this "Abandoned" Superstox in the area surrounding Ringwood Raceway. Jerry wondered if anyone knew who last raced this car and when? It looks like to me Richard Linfield's #464 car that he last raced in the 90's, however Mike Spence was Ringwood Superstox #145?. If Richard's son Steve is reading this maybe he could confirm? Otherwise if you know any details on this car please let us know? 01/01/08 - Shaun Brooker's WWW No, Shaun Brooker has not set up his own website, he had another Wet Wimbledon Win! Shaun was once again on form today at Wimbledon in the wet just like on the World final night. This time he won the Winternational Championship and was followed home by Steve Sutch and David Miles Jnr. Shaun also won heat 2 while Heat 1 was won by Steve Hamilton. Full results can be found on the results page, and pictures can be found in the picture gallery or by clicking here.
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