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Some 'new' names on the booking list. What do we know about them? 62 John Christie is a top National Hot Rod driver, and won their World Championship in 2013. John is from County Antrim in Northern Ireland and will be racing Paul Hines' car. 387 Hannah Chappell raced F1 at Gala night 2015 in the U25s race and won best novice award. She is Tim Warwick's (307) No1 fan, mechanic, and close friend. A fan and follower of BriSCA F1 since birth. And Stoxnet's newest member. 408 Ant Whorton-Eales races on the circuits and has won the Renault UK Clio Cup for the last four years. Ant has several family connections to BriSCA F1 as he is related to 408 Brian Whorton, 422 Nigel Whorton, 197 Mark Whorton-Eales, 97 Murray Harrison, and 197 Ryan Harrison. (I'm sure someone will correct me if that's wrong, or I've missed someone ) 536 Ben Barnicoat is from Chesterfield, so I'm guessing he's related to 224 Paul Barnicoat ?

Current info is that 191 and 219 will only be racing in the Under 25 Championship, as they are car sharing with 389 and 316 respectively.

Press release from BriSCA The Last Laps! Once again the curtain comes down on the official 2016 season with ALL roads once again leading to Birmingham Wheels this coming Saturday 12th November for the Gala Night BriSCA Spectacular which has an added significance as we celebrate and remember inspirator of the Under 25's Championship, Dave Leonard with the Dave Leonard Memorial trophy a coveted race for competitors. A record number Formula Ones, close on 60, are entered with, as is typical of this end of term event, some interesting drivers out for the occasion. The Under 25's, thanks to Lee, Mike and helpers has raised in excess of £4000 funding plus give aways which provides an overall funding of close on 10k for the F1 Stock Cars, a fantastic effort! BriSCA F2's also have a boost in funding with their two big races - and the Gala Night Shoot Out Championship has become now a must win race. At the time or writing bookings are virtually on par with 2015 with 50 cars booked as of Tuesday including Gordon Moodie representing Scotland. V8 entries are also approaching mid thirties, around 140 BriSCA Stock Cars in one venue for one night which is not to be missed! For ongoing information and updates check out incarace.co.uk (or Stoxnet )

Admission prices Adult: £20.00 Concession : (65 years & Over) £18.00 Concession : Children (5-14yrs) £8.00 Programme : £2.00

Press release: A WONDERFUL season of BriSCA Stock Car racing comes to an end at Birmingham Wheels Raceway on Saturday 12th November at the annual Gala Night event. In the last few years this meeting has produced some of the finest tarmac BriSCA F1 racing seen anywhere across the year, and all signs are there that this could be the case again this November. 318 Rob Speak crowned a wonderful BriSCA career at Belle Vue recently as he took the National Points Championship title, defeating the likes of 445 Nigel Green, European champ 4 Dan Johnson, 84 Tom Harris and new World Champion 1 Junior Wainman. All these names should appear the event – will this be Speak’s last run in an F1 before his move from driving into promoting for the 2017 season? This meeting always sees a few newcomers to BriSCA F1 and drivers from other formulae trying something different, and the big news ahead of this event is that a champion of the circuit racing world will be trying BriSCA F1 for the first time. Ant Whorton-Eales began his career at Incarace in the ORCi Ministox several years ago and since then has won in SaxMax, Mini Challenge and single seaters, and this year finally achieved a four-year ambition when he won the Renault Clio UK Cup which has put him in the frame for a British Touring Car drive in 2017. He has still enjoyed the occasional oval outing in Incarods and Classic Hot Rods – but BriSCA F1 racing will be an entirely different experience for him! It has also been rumoured that former Queen of National Ministox Courtney Witts will be making her F1 debut at this event after a couple of successful test sessions, while kart racer Hannah Chappell will make her second BriSCA appearance. Not only that, but National Hot Rod superstar John Christie will make the long trip from Northern Ireland, the former World and National Champion and current NHRPA Champion very excited to be making his F1 debut in Paul Hines’ car. This really is going to be something special! The feature race of the night will be the 2016 Under 25s Championship, showcasing the best young talent in BriSCA F1 with 212 Danny Wainman defending the title he won at this corresponding event last year. This year the race has extra significance as the meeting is held in memory of the championship’s founder Dave Leonard who sadly passed away earlier this year, and the meeting Final will be run in his memory. A huge grid of talented young drivers is eligible for this event and the meeting is set to be an absolute cracker. Racing starts at 5pm.

Slightly out of date poster - the prize fund is now well over four grand! There's still time to donate. See Mike & Lee's thread or visit the website Under25s.com.

One change to the booking list. 84 Tom Harris has withdrawn due to engine problems.

Assuming it's just standard point scoring? If so, then the grids for both the W&Y Championship and the Track Championship races should be able to be worked out from all the points scored at Coventry this season, which are on the F1StockCarsDotCom Points & Stats pages

Another car being prepared for Coventry. (pic: Simon Bennion)

Programme of events Race 1 National Ministox World of Shale Race 2 UK Modifieds Heat 1 Race 3 F1 Whites & Yellows Race 4 National Ministox Heat 1 Race 5 F1 Track Champ Race 6 UK Modifieds Heat 2 Race 7 F1 Heat 1 Race 8 F1 Heat 2 Race 9 F1 Heat 3 Race 10 National Ministox Heat 2 Race 11 F1 Consolation FIREWORKS Race 12 UK Modifieds Final Race 13 F1 Final Race 14 National Ministox Final Race 15 F1 Grand National

Press release from the BMB: A big well done to everyone for their support for this - and still time to give! It really is a great tribute to Dave, over 4k with 10 days to go! Discussing plans with Sophie yesterday I can say even at this early stage, 40 F1's already on the list including a number of 'new/different' drivers - The 5 laps will be in shifts! With a big grid of V8's and the Shoot Out £1000 F2 combination, it all promises a great night to round off the official season!

Official booking list 1 Frankie Wainman Jnr 2 Paul Harrison 4 Daniel Johnson 12 Michael Scriven 16 Matt Newson 21 Mark Gilbank 24 Mark Adkins 28 Thomas Boyer 34 Mal Brown 40 Steve Smith 43 Adam Bamford 44 Mark Harrhy 45 Nigel Harrhy 53 John Lund 57 Bill Fenwick 75 Thomas Stevenson 76 Aaron Cozens 84 Tom Harris 94 John Dowson Jnr. 104 Paul Spooner 105 Chris Bonner 108 Peter Hobbs 127 Austin Moore 134 John Brown 150 Mick Sworder 158 James Clement 166 Bobby Griffin 175 Karl Hawkins 183 Steve Whittle 185 Lenny Smith 192 Luke Dennis 196 Murray Jones 198 Nigel Whalley 207 Ben Hurdman 208 Stephen Malkin Snr 211 Phoebe Wainman 212 Daniel Wainman 215 Geoff Nickolls 217 Lee Fairhurst 220 William Hunter 224 Mark Gray 231 Daniel van Spijker 238 Richard Bryan 244 Mick Rogers 249 Jonathon Gibson 259 Paul Hines 276 Mark Poole 290 Jay Tomkins 293 Eliot Smith 306 Ian Noden 307 Tim Warwick 313 Karl Roberts 318 Rob Speak 326 Mark Sargeant 331 Peter Allin 335 Mark Woodhull 337 Dave Willis 338 Chris Brocksopp 339 Anthony Lee 348 John Wright 354 Dave Massey 389 Tom Dayman 390 Stuart Smith 415 Russell Cooper 422 Ben Riley 445 Nigel Green 446 Joe Booth 451 Martin Spiers 480 Fraser Nairn 511 Jake Hall 544 Ben Howard 555 Frankie Wainman JJ H17 Bouwe Arjen Hiddinga H54 Sierd de Vries H148 Sjeng Smidt Jun H195 Harman Zwerver

Revised timings from Coventry Stox Pit gate opens 2.30pm Turnstile open 4.30pm First race 5.30pm First F1 race 6.30pm Advance ticket holders can get in half an hour before the turnstiles open. i.e. from 4pm. Advance tickets available here

H17 Arjen-Bouwe Hiddinga's preparations are underway.

As in previous years, the meeting will start with the Coventry Whites & Yellows Championshp Final, and the Coventry Track Championship.

220 have posted in the last month. A few more stats, courtesy of the server logs (and because I like stats and data. ) Between September 2015 to September 2016 there were 14,583 posts by 679 people, there were 1,030 new threads started, and Stoxnet itself was viewed by an average of 11,000* unique visitors per day. * The actual number is probably a bit less than 11,000 because, for example, a non-member viewing from their office computer at work, then going home and viewing on their phone, would be counted as two separate visitors, as there's no way to tell that it's the same person. This isn't an issue for members that are logged in.

The car count is currently in the high 70s and includes 4 Dutch drivers.

F1 plus Ministox, UK Modifieds, and firework display Pit gate opens 3pm 2,30pm Turnstile open 5pm 4,30pm Meeting starts 6pm 5.30pm Admission Adults : £20 Concessions / Students with NUS Card : £15 11-15 : £5 Under 11s Free Advance tickets available here

Big thanks to Taylor for helping out with the updates while I was out of the country last week.

Don't forget that the clocks go back an hour on Sunday morning. Although you can never be too early for a stock car meeting.

165 Roger Bailey now added to the booking list. I thought him and 135 James Bailey shared a car?

Provisional running order Ministox 3.40.pm F2 Heat 1 4.00.pm F1 Heat 1 4.15.pm Ministox 4.35.pm F2 Heat 2 4.50.pm F1 Heat 2 5.05.pm Ministox 5.25.pm F2 Heat 3 5.45.pm F1 Heat 3 6.00.pm F2 Final 6.20.pm F1 Final 7.00.pm Ministox Final F1 Grand National F2 All Comers (subject to time)

The current list looks like this :- 1 Frankie Wainman 2 Paul Harrison 4 Dan Johnson 16 Matt Newson 21 Mark Gilbank 24 Mark Adkins 25 Bradley Harrison 28 Thomas Boyer 34 Mal Brown 37 Chris Cowley 45 Nigel Harrhy 53 John Lund 76 Aaron Cozens 94 John Dowson 127 Austin Moore 134 John Brown 135 James Bailey 150 Mick Sworder 165 Roger Bailey 191 Joshua Smith 196 Murray Jones 212 Danny Wainman 217 Lee Fairhurst 220 William Hunter 231 Daniel Van Spijker 238 Richard Bryan 259 Paul Hines 287 Sean Willis 293 Eliot Smith 318 Rob Speak 335 Mark Woodhull 348 John Wright 415 Russell Cooper 422 Ben Riley 445 Nigel Green 555 Frankie Wainman Jnr Jnr

Good point. I'll check that. A couple more... 24 Mark Adkins 127 Austin Moore