The preceding European Finals was one of extreme contrasts for Super Comp and Super Gas competitor Jon Morton, winning the meeting in the 9.90 bracket with a borrowed motor having struggled to get to the event with an ailing motorhome. The National Finals was a very different story, but with the same outcome, Mort winning Super Gas over a breaking out Stuart Morrice and in doing so taking the UK championship. 

Fifteen minutes before brother Stuart had broken out against Jon Morton in the Super Gas final, Collin, the other half of the Morrice Boys racing team, had wheeled the family Camaro to the event win in Super Comp with a 8.906/140 keeping him ahead of Pete Creswell’s 8.906/152 by a couple of feet, Cresswell having defeated points champ Brian Pateman in the opening round of elims.

Alex McIntosh finished off the year with his first win in the B&H Automotive/LA Racing Parts Street Eliminator class which looked as if it would be a big ask from the outset as qualifying had put him alongside the 2009 champion Colin Lazenby fresh from a consistent seven second performance at the European Finals. However, Lazenby’s motor was not in the best of fettle hence the fourth qualifying spot and McIntosh defeated him, Mats Andersson and David Murdoch, the latter with a pair of 9.1s.

The nine second Ramraider methanol injected small block Chevy slingshot has carried Ed Yates and the rest of the Dog’s Boll***s team to the first clean sweep of the five championships that are contested as part of the mix and match Wild Bunch nostalgia series’ year. Yates took the National Finals event win after Chris Hartnell was a no show, caused by a dropped valve and costing Hartnell the chance of winning the Wild Bunch Series.