2004 Days of Thunder season

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The 2004 Days of Thunder season was the fourth season of United Kingdom-based NASCAR style stock car racing, originally known as ASCAR. For this season the Days of Thunder brand was adopted entirely in place of the ASCAR name having been introduced as a promotional brand the previous season.

Teams and drivers

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2004 Champion Stevie Hodgson.
Team Car No. Driver Rounds
Kidd-Richardson Racing Chevrolet 2   Shaun Richardson All
11   'Skid Carrera' All
Team Turn Four Ford 5   Rob Speak 4
Chevrolet 42   Ben Collins All
24:7 Motorsport Chevrolet 7   Mike Luck All
Team West-Tec Chevrolet 8   Chris Cooke All
28   Michael Vergers All
Pontiac 88   Oli Playle All
TorqueSpeed Chevrolet 10   Chris Robinson 1
16   Steve Dance 1
23   Anthony Swan All
24   John Mickel 1
  Stevie Hodgson 5
25   Ian McKellar Jr. 5
  Mark Willis 1
27   Stevie Hodgson 1
  Chris Harris 1
  Duncan Gray 1
Ford 66   John Mickel 5
Chevrolet 17   Tony King 2
Team HTML Pontiac 4
68   Rob Speak 1
69   Thierry Haenel 1
Fast Tec Motorsport Pontiac 12   Mark Proctor All
Renegade Racing Chevrolet 19   John Jon Higgins All
20   Steve Hobday All
Intersport Racing Pontiac 33   Peter Falding All
Steward Racing Ford 75   John Steward All
Team Catchpole Racing Chevrolet 77   Phil Weaver 5
  Duncan Gray 1
CWS Racing Chevrolet 78   Colin White 5
85   Malcolm Clein All

Race calendar

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All races were held at the Rockingham Motor Speedway in Corby, Northamptonshire.

The season consisted of six meetings of two races taking place on the first Sunday of each month from May to October. The grid for the opening race of each meeting was set by a qualifying session with the second race grid being set by the finishing order of the first.

Round Date Pole Position Fastest Lap Led Most Laps Winning Driver Winning Team
1 R1 2 May   Anthony Swan   Anthony Swan   Anthony Swan   Colin White   CWS Racing
R2   Ben Collins   Colin White   Colin White   CWS Racing
2 R3 6 June   Ben Collins   Ben Collins   Ben Collins   Ben Collins   Team Turn Four
R4   Michael Vergers   Michael Vergers   Michael Vergers   Team West-Tec
3 R5 4 July   Mark Willis   Anthony Swan   Stevie Hodgson   Stevie Hodgson   TorqueSpeed
R6   Stevie Hodgson   Oli Playle   John Steward   Steward Racing
4 R7 1 August   Oli Playle   Oli Playle   Oli Playle   Oli Playle   Team West-Tec
R8   John Mickel   Ian McKellar Jr.   Ian McKellar Jr.   TorqueSpeed
5 R9 5 September   Stevie Hodgson   Ian McKellar Jr.   Stevie Hodgson   Stevie Hodgson   TorqueSpeed
R10   Colin White   Stevie Hodgson   Colin White   CWS Racing
6 R11 3 October   Oli Playle   Stevie Hodgson   Ian McKellar Jr.   Ian McKellar Jr.   TorqueSpeed
R12   Ian McKellar Jr.   Ian McKellar Jr.   Ian McKellar Jr.   TorqueSpeed

Final points standings

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Pos Driver R1 R2 R3 R4 R5 R6 R7 R8 R9 R10 R11 R12 Pts
1   Stevie Hodgson 2 5* 6 3 1* 4* 2 3* 1* 9* 2* 3* 2010
2   John Steward 4 4 7 7 5 1* 10 13 13 13 6 11 1720
3   Shaun Richardson 11 15 21 12 10 5 8 6 6 5 3 5 1645
4   Ben Collins 5 3* 1* EX 7 6 9 4 7 7 11 19 1610
5   Mark Proctor 3 6 8 6 16 12 13 7 15 11 9 8 1607
6   John Mickel 12 DNS 4 5* 3 2* 3* 2 10 6 4* DNS 1567
7   Oli Playle 10 DNS 17 4 4 3* 1* 15* 3 17 17 4* 1561
8   Anthony Swan 6* 2* 20 15 19 DNS 4 5 2 3 8 16 1525
9   Michael Vergers 16 12 3 1* 12* 19 20 DNS 8 8 5 2 1499
10   Colin White 1* 1* 2 20 2 7 18 DNS 4* 1* WD WD 1383
11   Malcolm Clein 13 14 16 14 22 16 14 11 9 12 13 12 1379
12   Tony King 7 11 11 16 6 18 19 12 20 18 18 18 1356
13   Mike Luck 15 10 12 19 18 14 15 8 17 19 15 10 1354
14   Peter Falding 17 13 9 9 15 13 11 9 19 21 20 17 1352
15   Ian McKellar Jr. 18 DNS 5 17 5 1* 16 2* 1* 1* 1346
16   'Skid Carrera' 14 7 18 10 17 17 22 17 11 15 14 13 1345
17   John Jon Higgins 20 DNS 10 8 13 15 21 14 5 10 12 9 1331
18   Chris Cooke 19 17 15 2 11 10 6 10 12 20 21 DNS 1311
19   Steve Hobday 9 9 19 18 14 11 17 DNS 18 16 19 14 1226
20   Phil Weaver 22 16 13 11 20 21 21 14 10 7 1087
21   Rob Speak 21 DNS 8 8 12 DSQ 14 4 7* 6 1063
22   Duncan Gray 16 18 16 15 420
23   Thierry Haenel 8 8 280
24   Mark Willis 9 9 270
25   Steve Dance 7 16 256
26   Chris Harris 14 13 232
27   Chris Robinson 21 20 177
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