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RAIN disrupted the finals of the Buckthought Engineering North Island Stockcar Champs on the weekend at Stratford, where Palmerston North drivers made a clean sweep of titles.
Friday night racing ran OK but heavy rain scoured the track, which stopped Saturday night competition.
On Sunday diggers scraped off the top layer of the track and three saloon cars did circuits until it was compacted. That afternoon racing continued
There was little action over Friday’s racing and Peter Rees (3nzp) cruised to an easy victory. He was pretty much untouched, although Alan Levien (46v) was chasing him down by the third heat.
Darrel Wallace in the 557p car was second and Rob Miers (15p) was third. The Fulton Hogan King of the Mountain Champs were won by Rob Mason(34p). Mark Woods (517s) and  Carl Vanderwiel (622w) were second equal on points. They decided their final positions by coin toss, which Woods won.
The GJS NZ Taranaki Youth Ministock Champs were won by Wanganui visitor Kyle Heibner in the 15v car. Blake Ellet (4w) was second and Stratford driver Alex Patterson (83s) was third.
The Taranaki Stockcar Club would like to thank FeildTorque Taranaki and Fulton Hogan for supplying diggers today to scrape the waterlogged clay off the track.On Sunday the qualifying races for the North Island Stock