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The European Championship is contested over a summer's racing weekend at Northampton. Qualifying races run on the Saturday evening meeting and the championship race is run on the Sunday afternoon before the start of a regular meeting of heats, finals and grand national. The weekend often attracts a strong showing of Dutch fans and drivers, though the title has not yet been taken overseas.
Since 2005 the European Champion has been awarded the right to wear a red and yellow checked roof. 2005 winner Paul Hines carried the checks on his roof until losing the title to Frankie Wainman Jnr in summer 2006. Frankie Wainman was at the time both National Series (silver roof) and World Champion (gold roof) so didn't use the red/yellow checks, though after losing both of the other major titles he is widely expected to carry the red/yellow checks as part of his 2007 colour scheme.
2007 European Champion: 322 James Neachell
Previous European Championship winners and runners up, by year:
| Year |
Track |
First |
Second |
Third |
| 1978 |
Long Eaton
&
Rochdale |
391 Stu Smith |
199 Mike Close |
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| 1979 |
Harringay |
175 Glyn Pursey |
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| 1980 |
European Championship not raced in 1980 |
| 1981 |
Northampton |
190 Len Wolfenden |
154 B Powles |
212 Frankie Wainman |
| 1982 |
Northampton |
199 Mike Close |
190 Len Wolfenden |
36 Rod Falding |
| 1983 |
Northampton |
199 Mike Close |
304 Dave Mellor |
55 Bert Finnikin |
| 1984 |
Northampton |
495 John Cayzer |
100 Harry Smith |
304 Dave Mellor |
| 1985 |
Northampton |
203 Danny Clarke |
304 Dave Mellor |
199 Mike Close |
| 1986 |
Skegness |
55 Bert Finnikin |
471 Bobby Burns |
260 Dave Berresford |
| 1987 |
Aycliffe |
367 Ian Smith |
286 John Toulson |
354 Richard Ainsworth |
| 1988 |
Northampton |
212 Frankie Wainman |
53 John Lund |
22 Paul Harrison |
| 1989 |
Hednesford |
53 John Lund |
33 Peter Falding |
422 Nigel Whorton |
| 1990 |
Skegness |
417 Mike James |
22 Paul Harrison |
471 Bobby Burns |
| 1991 |
Northampton |
33 Peter Falding |
53 John Lund |
515 Frankie Wainman Jnr |
| 1992 |
Hednesford |
53 John Lund |
H217 Ron Kroonder |
2 Paul Harrison |
| 1993 |
Skegness |
33 Peter Falding |
422 Nigel Whorton |
501 Chris Ellwell |
| 1994 |
Northampton |
33 Peter Falding |
H217 Ron Kroonder |
53 John Lund |
| 1995 |
Northampton |
515 Frankie Wainman Junior |
391 Andy Smith |
33 Peter Falding |
| 1996 |
Northampton |
250 Keith Chambers |
515 Frankie Wainman Jnr |
180 Ray Witts |
| 1997 |
Northampton |
250 Keith Chambers |
515 Frankie Wainman Jnr |
41 Gaz Bott |
| 1998 |
Northampton |
2 Paul Harrison |
391 Andy Smith |
38 Jason Holden |
| 1999 |
Northampton |
97 Murray Harrison |
391 Andy Smith |
33 Peter Falding |
| 2000 |
Northampton |
318 Rob Speak |
515 Frankie Wainman Jnr |
2 Paul Harrison |
| 2001 |
Northampton |
318 Rob Speak |
247 Gary Castell |
2 Paul Harrison |
| 2002 |
Northampton |
53 John Lund |
2 Paul Harrison |
21 Mark Gilbank |
| 2003 |
Northampton |
2 Paul Harrison |
515 Frankie Wainman Jnr |
247 Gary Castell |
| 2004 |
Northampton |
51 Nick Smith |
2 Paul Harrison |
H007 Dave Schaap |
| 2005 |
Northampton |
259 Paul Hines |
305 Carlos Perez |
515 Frankie Wainman Jnr |
| 2006 |
Northampton |
515 Frankie Wainman Jnr |
H221 Marco Jenigga |
2 Paul Harrison |
| 2007 |
Northampton |
322 James Neachell |
197 Ryan Harrison |
515 Frankie Wainman Jnr |
Information courtesy of Geoffrey Phipps, Derek Herbets, Michael, Carl Hesketh, V8_132, Chris53, Jimmy259, Brat, Peter88 and Steve Cooke.
Notes
1978 - Run over two meetings, Long Eaton on the Saturday and Rochdale on the Sunday. Stu Smith drew level on points with Mike Close and the two had a 5-lap run off to decide the winner.
1980 - We think that there was no European Championship this year
1996 - This was the start of the Northampton European Speedweekends
Do you know the top three finishers in the European Championship?
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