The monthly race date at the United Downs Raceway, St Day, will see Formula Two Stock Cars make their fourth visit to the circuit for this season on Sunday (1.00 pm).

National Bangers have some very significant prizes to chase, and the non-contact Stock Rods will complete the line-up.

In each of the three previous race meetings for Formula Two Stock Cars at St Day this year, there has been a different winner of the feature final. 

That sequence was maintained throughout the whole of the 2008 campaign at St Day.

Under the national handicap system, white-graded drivers start at the front of the grid in each race.

The last white-graded final winner at St Day was Andy Sobey of Launceston, who claimed success last August. 

On Sunday, Sobey will race at the west Cornwall venue for the first time this season.

Of the current crop of white-graded drivers, St Austell youngster Simon Bassett, Ian Jefferies of St Agnes and teenager Liam Rowe of Radnor will be hoping they can emulate Sobey's performance from last summer.

Rowe, in particular, has special reason to want to do well. In his first season of racing, he has enjoyed some backing from Heron Refinishing – Accident Repair Specialists, of Troon, and they are the sponsors of the Formula Two Stock Cars on Sunday.

Rowe's elder brother, Ross, moved to the top of the St Day Track Championship table after another good points haul at the last meeting.

Mid-Cornwall racers, Darren Wade of Roche and Andrew Bennett of Hewaswater, are each due to appear aon the grid, along with a strong contingent from the Liskeard area, headed by brothers Matt and Adam Deeble, and Callington teenager Ashley Rundle.

Big, unlimited cc National Bangers, make only two appearances at St Day each season – and they will serve up their typical brand of rough, tough, spectacular action.

The meeting doubles as a World Championship qualifying round, and features the annual Blockbusta Wild Card race, which will earn a driver direct entry on to the grid for Blockbusta – the £2,000 Open showdown on August Bank Holiday Sunday. Points Champion Steve Bailey of Whitstone will head the entry.

Bailey races under the nickname of 'Pikey' and is one of the most active National Banger drivers in the UK. 

Already this term, he has raced at Arena Essex in east London, Buxton in the Peak District, Mildenhall in Suffolk and at Cowdenbeath in Scotland.

Steve Carter of Exeter tops the World Championship points chart, while Andrew Jones and Paul Smaldon of Newton Abbot are looking to overhaul Liam Martin of Poole.

Cornish interest will include Marcus A'Lee of Saltash and Tom Perkins of Gunnislake.

Drivers will be eager to score points during the day, in a bid to boost their qualification hopes for the World Championship at Smeatharpe near Honiton in September.

When the non-contact Stock Rods last raced at St Day, on Spring Bank Holiday Sunday, Stewart Watters of Roche was a race-winner for the first time.

Watters swept to victory in the meeting final for the Stock Rods, even though star-grader Luke Thomas of Paignton chased him all the way to the chequered flag.

Watters will be looking to repeat that display when the Stock Rods return to action, with good car numbers once again expected.

On average at St Day this year, there have been 18 Stock Rods racing per meeting, and with Andy Thomas of St Austell due to appear with a new Nova and Jay Tomkins of Roche another recent addition to the ranks, there is every cause to expect the impressive car turnouts to continue.