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.

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

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

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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