Bishopstone

SOAP BOX RACE -The Bishopstone soap box racing team comprising John Macklin, Jim Fisk, Ian Astley and Barry Megson competed for the fourth year running at Mansel Lacy on Sunday June 19. Teams from Bury St Edmunds in Suffolk, Slough in Berkshire, Aynho in Oxfordshire, Wigan in Lancashire, Ludlow and Market Drayton in Shropshire plus local teams made up the 24 entries. Bishopstone's new soap box BRM had an early mishap. Driven by Ian Astley, it successfully negotiated all the chicanes down the 660 metre course until the last one when the inside front wheel hit a ground marker and spun it off the track. The winner was G-Race Team from Bury St. Edmunds (sponsored by Vauxhall) in a time of 1 minute 11 seconds, second was South Hereford Audi with 1 minute 13 seconds and BRM came third. Barry Megson driving the Bishy Boys soap box had success by winning the heavyweights (soap boxes not allowed to compete in the main event because they were over the 100 kilos weight limit) with a winning aggregated time of 2 minutes 33 seconds. Second were Frantic Fettlers from Belmont with 2 minutes and 57 seconds.