The cars are on fire at Lochgelly Raceway!

It was a couple of days that had it all – on track battles, rivalry, fast racing, head on collisions, fires and handshakes.

The Superstox kicked off the weekend with the opening race on Saturday. Bryan Forrest made his race debut with a zetec powering his car instead of the pinto engine and it was right on the pace from the outset as he took a heat and final double.

Northern English driver Mark Dews took a much-deserved race win in one of the heats, as well as finishing second in the other.

Barry Stephen showed off his new livery for the first time on home soil, and what a well turned out car it is!

The Sunday afternoon was another excellent day for the open wheel class with a great showing of competitive and fast racing.

Marc Spence took the opening race win in the Ryan Dunbar car ahead of Evan Clark and Barry Stephen. Forrest took the second heat of the night, in a relatively comfortable manner ahead of Stephen and Lee Davison.

The meeting final saw Mark Brady take an excellent race win, with Mark Dews and Dean Johnston completing the top three.

The Ministox, as always, provided excellent entertainment. Scott Allardyce was in superb form as he now seems to have overcome his problems from a few meetings ago.

Racing from red grade, Scott took a superb double heat win on Saturday, before failing to finish in the meeting final.

Koddi Wright made his debut in the ex-Mitchell Gold car and was immediately on the pace! Taking a third place finish in his first race was an excellent achievement – it won’t be long before we see Koddi moving up through the grades.

Charlie Hardie completed his first meeting and took an excellent win in the final after a mouth watering battle with Lewis Burgoyne and Robbie Armit.

The Sunday afternoon was another excellent outing for the junior class.

Koddi Wright excelled again, with what could have been a hat trick of race wins but for being docked in the second race of the day after starting in the wrong grid position.

Koddi took the opening race, finishing ahead of Robbie Armit and Max Walker, whilst Sam Cavanagh took his first win of 2020 in the second race of the night.

The meeting final saw Charlie Hardie and Lewis Burgoyne battle again, this time for second place as neither of them could catch up with the flying Wright.

All in all, it a superb weekend from the Ministox, a formula that will not be back out in action at Lochgelly until September 26.

The 1300 Stock Cars were arguably the formula of the weekend with nothing less than excellent racing from start to finish – 32 cars started the first race on Saturday night, and 26 cars started the last race on Sunday afternoon.

The opening race of saw Kyle Hegg take a race win from blue grade.

Graham ‘Ozzy’ Osbourne broke his duck in the formula, as he took a heat and final double win which will see him elevated a grade as a reward for his efforts.

Throughout the meeting final, Patrick Calderwood made an effort to despatch of Dougie Ford, which resulted in both cars hitting the wall, with Ford spinning around, and Calderwood causing some damage to the front left of his car, which saw a yellow flag required to recover the car.

Sunday afternoon saw Fraser Clark race in a calm and collected manner, as won the opening race.

Regan Watson seems to be enjoying his racing at the moment and took a win in heat two. He looked on course for another strong finish in the meeting final, before his car caught fire and ended his day.

Sean Naismith took the meeting final victory ahead of Clark and Banwell.

The Stock Rods were in action on Saturday night with a healthy 16 cars in attendance.

Craig Mason took the first race win of the day for the formula ahead of McAlpine and Chris Lattka. Gary Nicholls though, will be kicking himself as he was on course for a race win before running out of fuel.

McAlpine took heat two ahead of the challenging Dean McGill and Siobhan Martin.

The meeting final went the way of Martin, although McAlpine finished hot on her heels, with Stewart Paterson completing the top three.

The Rookie Bangers battled for their Scottish Championship on Saturday, which was won by Craig Royal in what was an English 1-2-3.

The Demolition Derby turned out to be a good show, despite a lower number of cars in attendance than was hoped for.

A dead heat was declared in the DD, after a big head on with Gav Fletcher and Dean Sievwright ended both of their cars.

Sunday saw the 2.0 Hot Rods in action, in place of the Stock Rods, with Marc Honeyman not only taking his first win in the class, but the also his first hat-trick of race wins.

The 2.0 Hot Rods were in good form throughout the day, however, a big crash in the second heat of the night was the talking point for many – Ian Donaldson getting out of shape and being collected by the oncoming John Campbell, with Kevin Stewart just behind as well.

Campbell hit the kerb before hitting the Donaldson car, before then being hit by Stewart. Stewart’s car somehow managed to get underneath the Campbell car flipping it over onto his side – a rare sight seeing a hot rod roll over.

As the car settled though, a fire broke out, and it was a relief to see Campbell quickly out of the car and the HRP track team take control of the fire quickly.

The Micro Bangers replaced the Rookie Bangers for Sundays action, and provided some excellent racing and crashing throughout the day.

Despite only having 16 cars in attendance, the Micro Bangers never fail to disappoint with lots of crashing, and lots of entertaining the crowd.

The Micro Bangers race for their World Cup at the Raceway on Saturday, October 10.