Arena... goes Purple!

Fire up the XR3i and get the missus some stilettos. Maybe even a vajazzle, cos in 2012, Autospeed sez, the only way is Essex... 3 dates given in 2012, and Autospeed have offered themselves up for the greater good!

However without the slappers and himboids, this could potentially get a decent showing.

Arena has always been the sick man of Brisca. A Brisca track in predominantly Spudworth territory, and with a lack of "local" drivers. However, in the past couple of years, depsite the influx of relatively local drivers like the Jones, Bradbury and Linfield, it has always struggled to rouse big turnouts.

A culmination of factors have led to its demise - the length of turnover for a meeting -GN's being run well after 7, the poor turnaround of races, the fact that the track is a bit of an engine killer, and the fact that it's situated beside Britain's biggest carpark - not the Lakeside Shopping Centre, but the M25.

Every time I have been to Arena I have found it a little dull. The fact that 2's are sharing the bill with Saloons means that the action will be good, and with Autospeed, there is always a relatively quick turnover of races, and well, it'll be slick, and hopefully a half decent turnout. I do think that Arena would be perfect for the Formula 1 boys, I mean Top Gear have raced campervans and motorhomes there, a few tractors wouldn't hurt!

An astonishing 48 drivers scored points at Arena this year as shown below, in the Dominator scores show - the drivers have raced there just not at the same time. Arena always seems to be the track where people race at if there is nothing else on. I'm hoping that 48 cars is the norm not the extraordinary for this to be a success.

ARENA RANK	Driver	Points
1	886 Chris Bradbury	97.5
2	844 Darren Phillips	71
3	464 Matt Linfield	67
4	700 Adam Rubery	52
5	677 Chris Roots	46
6	38 Dave Polley	44.5
7	921 Jack Aldridge	40.5
8	541 Luke Phillips	39.5
9	401 Barry Goldin	37
10	115 Mike Green	37
11	866 Bob Griffin	35
12	183 Mark Gunichard	34
13	124 Ollie Skeels	32
14	8 Peter Hobbs	31
15	596 Richie Mead	27.5
16	B96 Jan Beekers	26
17	218 Sir Rob Speak	25
18	710 Brett Townsend	22.5
19	566 Glenn Salmon	21
20	909 Andy Cattell	20.5
21	588 Matt Pettit	16
22	823 Sam Wagner	15.5
23	NI 271 Gary Chambers	15.5
24	783 James Rygor	14.5
25	127 Matt Stoneman	14.5
26	276 Murray Jones	14
27	798 Mark Sargent	13
28	797 Dan Moss	13
29	732 Daz Kitson	12
30	449 Mark Dorrill	12
31	904 Ryan Cattell	12
32	761 Simon Creasey	12
33	119 Nick Glover	11
34	791 Jonathan Field	11
35	154 Steve Green Jnr	10
36	723 Snowy Crouch	10
37	313 Phil Williams	8
38	24 Jon Palmer	7.5
39	308 Jamie Parrish	7.5
40	744 Tom Smart	7
41	448 John Wright	7
42	H47 Patrick Tersteeg	7
43	120 Luke Loveland	6
44	475 Ryan Gregory	6
45	208 David Weaver	5
46	569 Chris Hand	5
47	248 Steve Lux	3
48	75 Sean Gregory	1.5