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Known as the Foxhall International Raceway, the track is a 382 metre tarmac oval. The traditional main events at the Stadium include The National Hot Rod Championship of the World, held on the first weekend of July (as part of a two day event labeled as 'Spedeweekend') and the Gala Night Held on the closest Saturday Night to Guy Fawkes Night.
Incarace (Spedeworth Group) Surface: Asphalt: Opened: 1954: Hednesford Hills Raceway (often referred to as Hednesford Raceway) is an oval, short-circuit motor racing ...
They generally attracted 5 or 6 'away' drivers per meeting. Another problem was that Spedeworth did not at that time publish a full years racing schedule. They tended to run to a three-month fixture list which produced problems for the V8's as some Spedeworth dates clashed with the confirmed dates as published before the season started.
Stock car formulas are largely split into two organisations broadly based in the north and south, BriSCA and Spedeworth. V8 Stock Cars / Hotstox are big brutes around the oval’s powered by V8 Rover engines which is the same as what come out of a TVR. Engines are most commonly used from 3.9 litres to 4.2 litres which are the most used.
The 1972 fixture schedule was not completed due to some driving standards problems and also the closure of Cross in Hand raceway in August that year. Each team was managed by a key person from the within the Spedeworth organisation and the team line ups included most of the top drivers from the era.
The Spedeworth Unlimited Banger World Final was another of these big championship events and is considered to be the sports flagship event. The first title race was held in October 1974 at Wimbledon Stadium. Plough Lane was the venue for this annual event until 2007 when changes to London traffic laws meant it had to be relocated.
In 1978 it was renamed F1SCA (Formula One Stock Car Association). In 1980, F1SCA decided to introduce a five-litre limit, and make the cars slightly smaller. Renamed 'Formula 80' the cars ran until 2018 under the name 'Spedeworth V8 Stock Cars'. In 2019 the Spedeworth V8 Stock Cars separated from all racing governing bodies and became an outlaw ...
Hot Rods refers to a number of British oval racing formula (not to be confused with hot rods, which are generally road-going modified vintage cars).Hot Rod racing was introduced at Hednesford Hills Raceway in the early 1960s as a British counterpart to NASCAR-style production car racing.