SMEATHARPE Stadium was a busy venue on Easter Monday as spectators crowded in for the first Caravan Chaos event of the year. The destructive race produced a highly spectacular end to a lively afternoon of short oval race action.

Enjoying the Spring sunshine, racegoers were regally entertained when six drivers totally destroyed half a dozen caravans in the last race of the day.

Incredibly, Brian Edmond of Dunkeswell had won the three previous races, each with the same Toyota Yaris tow car. However, while he set the early pace, the race was temporarily halted when Phil Saunders of Tiverton upended his caravan on the back straight, and was temporarily jackknifed in mid-air.

Although Saunders managed to spin the front wheels to try to propel himself forward, it was not enough to drag the caravan and return it to its wheels. Taunton's Jason Witney and Max Weare of Dunkeswell piled in, but with still more caravans waiting to be despatched to oblivion, the race was suspended.

When the race resumed, Edmond ground to a halt, and it was left to Saunders to bury his car and empty caravan chassis into the west bend wreckage which already included Josh Jones of Cranbrook and Liam Shipway of Taunton.

It was Saunders who was declared the winner, as he had completed more laps than each of his fellow competitors, and his closing shot, piling headlong into a pile of cars and caravans in the west bend was greeted with much approval.

Earlier in the afternoon, removals firm Weston & Edwards had led the Grand Parade with two large lorries making for a suitably magnificent spectacle befitting the opening act of the event.

Once, Jack Prosser of Kidderminster and Ben Goddard of Burnham on Sea accounted for the qualifying heats for Formula Two Stock Cars, with Adam Langridge of Lewes victorious in the second-chance consolation race.

Prosser led the meeting final for more than three quarters of the race, but in the closing stages Jason Ward of Wakefield pounced. He swept past Prosser with only a couple of laps remaining. Ward took the chequered, Prosser runner-up and Jamie Jones of Stoke on Trent rounded out the top three.

Teenager Alfie Flecken of Creech Heathfield, who also set the fastest single lap of the day at 13.324 seconds during the afternoon's first race, became the fifth different winner in as many races, as he took top honours in the Grand National race to complete the afternoon for the single-seat,open-wheeled class.

The Saloon Stock Cars were racing for the third time in four days, but still yielded a decent entry, which included Scottish teenager Charlie Burgoyne on his track debut. Each of the day's trio of races for the Saloon Stock Cars made for compelling viewing.

Brad Compton-Sage of Templecloud won the opening heat, but only after he edged out Plymouth's Joe Powell on the final bend, and reigning European and National Champion Archie Brown of East Huntspill took heat two, after a chaotic clash mid-race saw the leading trio all lose a lot of time.

It was a similar story in the final, as Compton-Sage profited late on, stealing the lead in the closing two laps, as he grabbed his second victory.

Dan Galley of East Huntspill scored a convincing win in the Bangers final, which saw him presented with the Gus Garrett Trophy.