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
Team Car Driver Rounds Kidd-Richardson Racing Chevrolet 2 Shaun Richardson All 11 'Skid Carrera' All Team Turn Four Ford 5 Rob Speak 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 16 Steve Dance 23 Anthony Swan All 24 John Mickel Stevie Hodgson 25 Ian McKellar Jr. Mark Willis 27 Stevie Hodgson Chris Harris Duncan Gray Ford 66 John Mickel Chevrolet 17 Tony King Team HTML Pontiac 68 Rob Speak 69 Thierry Haenel Fast Tec Motorsport Pontiac 12 Mark Proctor All Renegade Racing Chevrolet 19 John Jon Higgins All Steve Hobday All Intersport Racing Pontiac 33 Peter Falding All Steward Racing Ford 75 John Steward All Team Catchpole Racing Chevrolet 77 Phil Weaver Duncan Gray CWS Racing Chevrolet 78 Colin White 85 Malcolm Clein All
Race calendar
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
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 DNS 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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