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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 Australia Shaun Richardson All
11 United Kingdom 'Skid Carrera' All
Team Turn Four Ford 5 United Kingdom Rob Speak 4
Chevrolet 42 United Kingdom Ben Collins All
24:7 Motorsport Chevrolet 7 United Kingdom Mike Luck All
Team West-Tec Chevrolet 8 United Kingdom Chris Cooke All
28 Netherlands Michael Vergers All
Pontiac 88 United Kingdom Oli Playle All
TorqueSpeed Chevrolet 10 Australia Chris Robinson 1
16 United Kingdom Steve Dance 1
23 United Kingdom Anthony Swan All
24 United Kingdom John Mickel 1
United Kingdom Stevie Hodgson 5
25 United Kingdom Ian McKellar Jr. 5
United Kingdom Mark Willis 1
27 United Kingdom Stevie Hodgson 1
United Kingdom Chris Harris 1
United Kingdom Duncan Gray 1
Ford 66 United Kingdom John Mickel 5
Chevrolet 17 United Kingdom Tony King 2
Team HTML Pontiac 4
68 United Kingdom Rob Speak 1
69 France Thierry Haenel 1
Fast Tec Motorsport Pontiac 12 United Kingdom Mark Proctor All
Renegade Racing Chevrolet 19 United Kingdom John Jon Higgins All
20 United Kingdom Steve Hobday All
Intersport Racing Pontiac 33 United Kingdom Peter Falding All
Steward Racing Ford 75 United Kingdom John Steward All
Team Catchpole Racing Chevrolet 77 United Kingdom Phil Weaver 5
United Kingdom Duncan Gray 1
CWS Racing Chevrolet 78 United Kingdom Colin White 5
85 Republic of Ireland 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 United Kingdom Anthony Swan United Kingdom Anthony Swan United Kingdom Anthony Swan United Kingdom Colin White United Kingdom CWS Racing
R2 United Kingdom Ben Collins United Kingdom Colin White United Kingdom Colin White United Kingdom CWS Racing
2 R3 6 June United Kingdom Ben Collins United Kingdom Ben Collins United Kingdom Ben Collins United Kingdom Ben Collins United Kingdom Team Turn Four
R4 Netherlands Michael Vergers Netherlands Michael Vergers Netherlands Michael Vergers United Kingdom Team West-Tec
3 R5 4 July United Kingdom Mark Willis United Kingdom Anthony Swan United Kingdom Stevie Hodgson United Kingdom Stevie Hodgson United Kingdom TorqueSpeed
R6 United Kingdom Stevie Hodgson United Kingdom Oli Playle United Kingdom John Steward United Kingdom Steward Racing
4 R7 1 August United Kingdom Oli Playle United Kingdom Oli Playle United Kingdom Oli Playle United Kingdom Oli Playle United Kingdom Team West-Tec
R8 United Kingdom John Mickel United Kingdom Ian McKellar Jr. United Kingdom Ian McKellar Jr. United Kingdom TorqueSpeed
5 R9 5 September United Kingdom Stevie Hodgson United Kingdom Ian McKellar Jr. United Kingdom Stevie Hodgson United Kingdom Stevie Hodgson United Kingdom TorqueSpeed
R10 United Kingdom Colin White United Kingdom Stevie Hodgson United Kingdom Colin White United Kingdom CWS Racing
6 R11 3 October United Kingdom Oli Playle United Kingdom Stevie Hodgson United Kingdom Ian McKellar Jr. United Kingdom Ian McKellar Jr. United Kingdom TorqueSpeed
R12 United Kingdom Ian McKellar Jr. United Kingdom Ian McKellar Jr. United Kingdom Ian McKellar Jr. United Kingdom TorqueSpeed

Final points standings

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