Final Event at Silverstone dubbed a Success as POWERnights
Organisers look forward to 2008
Over 3,500 people attended the final POWERnights
event of 2007 at Silverstone on Thursday 30 August. Spectators were
entertained by eight action packed races and on track displays of Terry
Grant. They then were invited to join in the festivities at the Party in the
Paddock, watching the prize giving, a bite to eat at the BBQ and listen to
some music. Even the sunshine arrived in good time to brighten up the final
Thursday evening of Summer Motorsport.
Northamptonshire’s Gavin Wills became
the most successful POWERnights race driver, taking two wins in the
Invitation Formula Ford races to add to the two victories he scored on the
first POWERnights event at Silverstone on 2 August. Malcolm Edeson from Nottingham took the first win for the Toyota MR2 in the
‘Battle of the Japanese Roadsters’ and fittingly it was the Mazda
MX5 of Brett Walker who took the chequered flag in the second encounter at
the end of the evening.
Paul White was a double race winner in the
Avis Trophy for Invitation Classic Saloons & Road Sports races in his
awesome MGB GT V8, finishing well ahead of Ashbourne’s Mike Wrigley in
his Escort MKI in both encounters. The honours were shared between Swedish
driver Ake Boinebusch and Bedford’s
Steve Scott in the IN ’n’ OUT Trophy for Invitation Saloons &
Sports Cars.
“We have had an extremely successful
evening, with a good size crowd of just over 3,500, the largest crowd size so
far, coming along to enjoy the final POWERnights event,” said
POWERnights Series Director Roger Etcell. “The feedback we have been
receiving from spectators, competitors and marshal’s at all three
events has been extremely positive and we now have a proven product with
which to move forward into 2008. We aim to announce the dates of next years
POWERnights events before Christmas so everyone can plan their 2008 calendars
early. We are looking to run POWERnights events from May through to mid
August and we have already been in discussions with the circuits and race
series organisers to find suitable dates next season.
“I’d like to thank all of the
volunteer marshal’s, medical staff and the race officials from the
BRSCC, without whom this new initiative wouldn’t have been
possible,” Roger Etcell continued. “I’d also like to thank
the sponsors of POWERnights - Scalextric, Keystone Computer Group, IN
‘n’ OUT, Perrys, Avis, Sunwin Mazda, Northants 96, Ram FM,
Classic Gold, Motors TV and Motorsport News - for their support this
season.”
Motors TV (Sky Channel 413) is broadcasting
the final POWERnights 60-minutes highlights programme on Sunday 17 September,
with three further repeats the following week. In total POWERnights has
received over 14-hours of television coverage in its inaugural season and
drivers have received £12,000 in prize money. With plenty of track time and
other incentives, POWERnights is one of the most cost effective forms of
motor racing in the UK.
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