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today we met with the leasholder of site, and it has now been confirmed that the £2,000 unlimited national banger event scheduled on 22nd november will still be going ahead as planned.

We thank all for their patience in this instance, and it has been a challenging week for us to keep you the meeting, with a lot of strings being pulled to enable this to go ahead.

What people have failed to realise, is that planning issues on other parts of Matchams site sometimes hampers the day to day running of certain operations, we have negotiated and overcome these issues, and will be putting the meeting on as scheduled.

Planning has restricted the stock car use, and we will not be running in December.

The new season will restart at the end of March 2009.

I can also confirm that the 2008 'Rookie banger' World championship has been bought forward to run alongside the unlimited open, and will be running on the 22nd November at Ringwood.

this means that gates will open from 2pm, racing at 6pm.

drivers for both the unlimited National banger event and Rookie banger world are asked to book in asap on 07952 858 805

kind regards
the ringwood team

Trojan International will be in a position shortly to be able to announce the date and venue of the Rookie Banger Championship of the World.

Unfortunatley today we received the news that due to planning restraints in order for site to run lapland newforest, there will be NO stock car racing permissable at Ringwood during December.

Therefore for reasons beyond our control, we have succesfully secured to run this years Rookie banger world championship at Angmering raceway, water lane, angmering, west sussex.

Drivers are advised of the new date of Sunday 14th December gates open at 8.30 am racing at 11am.

bookings are still being taken and this event will be going ahead.

further details contact us on 07952 858 805

We hope this does not cause too many problems for people who wish to enter the event and hope that you will still support us at Angmering

It has come to our attention that drivers are not building their cars to the correct specification regarding the fixing of door plates on the drivers door.

Please Note that this is what helps to keep your driver cell safe and we need to be proactive with this situation now that we have found the problems with door plates coming off! or not doing their job properly.

As of todays date 13th October 2008 drivers will not be allowed to race if the following are not rectified!

1) all door plates must not go anymore than 6" past the a post or b post.
2) all door plates must have suitable size bolts to connnect them to the car through the a and b pillar and into the skins of drivers door, wing and rear door.
3) a minimum of 6 bolts are to be used of adequate size, we recommend bolts big enough to take a 24mm spanner to do them up!!!
4) a minimum of 2" square washers to be used inside of the skins to prevent bolts and washers pulling through the skin.

point 4 is the problems that we see with the plates moving, when you drill the holes, drivers are not putting adequate size washers on the inside and bolts are pulling and tearing through the bodywork.

I would appreciate that you see we are trying to safeguard the driver and be proactive, i understand that connecting through the a and b pillar is sometimes hard due to wiring etc... but this is safety that we are talking about.

please keep all bolts short and as flat to the bodywork as possible.

We are slowly getting you all to keep your exhausts to manufacturers original spec.

Drivers please note that on saturday we had to black flag 2 cars for excessive noise, we MUST stress that this is to keep below the recommended db readings we have in place.

As of today 13th October 2008, All rookie bangers and Thunder rods must have a minimum of a 2 part silencer system attached to the car and in working order.

Thunder rods must mount their rear box as per manufacturers mounting point at point of sale from main dealer, tailpipe only can be cut.

Rookie bangers must have the 2 part system, however can be cut no further back than the rear beam axle or main rear axle as possible incase of rear damage to the car.

if you arrive next meeting without this in place you WILL NOT be allowed to race.

please make sure that you have means to rejoin your system should it fail in racing circumstances.

As of the 27th September 2008 all Rookie Bangers will be allowed to use corner plates to stop the bonnet from coming into the drivers apperture.

Seats Belt straps must still be used to secure the the side and front of the bonnet in place.

Trojan International have implemented a strict ZERO tolerence on threatening and abusive behaviour from drivers and or mechanics and anyone travelling to the stadium with immediate effect.

Actions were taken on the 13th September by 2 drivers in the Hot rod class to be menacing to another fellow competitor, we would like to remind all of you attending ringwood raceway that with immediate effect you will NO longer be able to take measures into your own hands as a driver, mechanic or pit crew!

drivers are responcible for the actions of people attending the raceway with them and anyone found to be threatening or abusive to anyone on site will be loaded and sent home and will NOT return.

please all take note of the zero tolerence being implemented.

With regard the Hot rods points, a query was made regarding heat 1 on round 6 of the open championship at Ringwood

after further investigation into the race, we can now confirm that driver 936 will obtain 2nd position in that race.

points have now been updated to suit the mistake made.

After a steward enquiry regarding car 417 at round 6 of the Hot rod £3,00 championship on Saturday 9th August, we deem that due to the nature of the incidents and issues raised, that the result will still stand regarding the possible infingment that we have now waived.

Car 417 will still obtain points gained at round 6.

Points for the championship have now been updated, round 7 will be on Saturday 13th September start time 6pm

A steward enquiry is in place regarding the championship round at Ringwood on the 09th August

After finding some infringements with the 1st and 2nd place final cars, we can now confirm the following:

We express our congratulations to all drivers concerned and the presentation of trophies and prize monies will be given on their first meeting backprior to the start time, on Saturday the 13th September.