Hailsham driver Kym Weaver is back on top as the No. 1 stock rods driver in Sussex.

Weaver won a thrilling track championship decider on the final night of the season at Arlington Stadium.

The first five finished bum-per to bumper to provide a fitting climax to the Super Sussex Series in front of a big crowd.

Weaver, who last won the title in 1999, did it the hard way after starting in fifth place on the grid.

Joe Smith, from Forest Row, had pole position after coming top of the points in the six rounds run during the summer.

Defending champion Andy Sturt, from Surrey, was alongside, with another Hailsham man, Tristan Jackson, and lady racer Sophie Bunoz, from Pevensey, on the next row.

Bunoz never really got into her stride, but the rest did, although not without plenty of drama.

Sturt pushed Smith wide on lap three to grab the lead, but on the next bend Weaver and Jackson dived through to take up the running.

Meanwhile, James Kent was coming up fast and got behind Smith with a few laps to go, but there was no way through for him at the front.

It finished Weaver, Jackson, Sturt, Kent and Smith.

The unlimited cc national banger championship was also settled by a one-off race.

Although there was plenty of action down the field, up front Peacehaven's Neil Os-borne led all the way to take the title.

Towards the finish, Dale Hughes and Colin Farley cut back his half-lap lead to little more than a few yards.

Osborne then had to survive hitting the safety wall hard on the final bend, but he made it to the line to round off an excellent season in the formula, having raced in the rookie bangers before that.

Brighton driver Simon Browne collected his first title in 13 years of racing in a nailbiting finale to the rookies track championship for cars under 1,600cc.

At the start of the night, it was still possible for any one of five drivers to clinch the title, and Browne, the series leader, had a disastrous couple of heats.

He finished the first one but was placed last and then got car damage next time out which he was unable to repair for the final.

All he could do was sit and watch his nearest rivals score points and close the gap on him.

By the time they got to the final, Micky Webb needed five points to tie the championship and six points to win it, but he crashed when lying second.

Although he got going again, he could only finish fifth, which scores four points. So it was Browne's title by just one point.