Still Turning Left
By Scott Reeves
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When 35 of the best stock car racing drivers came together to contest the World Championship in September 2013, few people predicted that James Rygor would come from the back of the grid in his debut World Final to claim the greatest prize in the sport. Yet Rygor snatched glory in the dying moments, a dramatic finish to one of the finest races in the history of oval motorsport.
In this short sequel to Keep Turning Left, Scott Reeves recounts the spectacular World Final and meets the new World Champion. Featuring colour photographs and based on interviews with James Rygor, this is the story of one racing driver's journey to shock success.
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Still Turning Left - Scott Reeves
The 2013 World Final
One quarter-mile oval racetrack. 35 Formula 2 Stock Cars. 25 laps to decide the winner of the World Final, the biggest race of the season.
Micky Brennan pulled on his helmet and checked his straps and harness one last time. He was the reigning World Champion, a title won in an impressive victory at Barford Raceway a year earlier. Now it was time to defend his title at Smeatharpe Stadium near Taunton. Only he had the right to race under a stunning gold roof and winged aerofoil, but this could be the last time that he had the privilege – if he didn’t retain his title, the gold roof would be given to the new World Champion.
If Brennan was to hang on to the most coveted colour in stock car racing, he would have to do it the hard way. His was the final car on the grid. In front of him were 17 rows and 34 other cars, each containing one of the top drivers in the sport. Brennan had failed to qualify for the race through the World Championship Semi-Finals, so claimed his right as defending champion to take up the final slot of the grid.
Yet Brennan had one thing in his favour to help pass the cars in front of him. He not only had a gold roof, he also had a sturdy gold bumper on the front of his car. It was quite within the rules to use this to strike other cars out of his way. Stock car racing can be a brutal sport, with cars being spun out of the way or sent crashing into the fence. It is not for the faint-hearted.
Three rows in front of Brennan was Barry Goldin, himself a former World Champion who won the title nine years previously, the last time the World Final had been held at this track. Goldin headed seven drivers who had earned a place on the grid as part of the last-chance Consolation Semi-Final, having taken the chequered flag in that race just an hour previously. Joining him at the back of the grid were Liam Rennie, James Rygor, Kelvyn Whalley, Mark Gibbs, Neil Hooper and Ryan Wadling.
Each of them had rescued something from their season by making it onto the World Final grid, but they were realistic about their prospects. Only once out of the previous sixty races had the World Final been won by a qualifier from the Consolation Semi-Final, and that was a freak race. In 2011, a monsoon struck just as the race began, turning the shale racing surface of the King’s Lynn track into part ice rink,