Once again a driver from the host Aldershot Knights Slotstox Club (on their four lane track) won the Slotstox World Championship held on 15th September: this time it was Gary Reynolds.  Despite being the host Club Aldershot drivers had to be a red grade or above to qualify with other grades competing for a few extra places at a qualifying meeting.

This season saw the introduction at the Club of a new wooden four-lane oval track built by Dean Cox and Chris Bruce (the latter joining the promotion team).  This saw an improved, faster and more competitive level of racing.  The first meeting on the new track was on 25th January as frost caused the cancellation of the season's first three meetings.  Paul Mower and Julian Beaumont finished first and second in the final ahead of Steve Baldwin (highest points scorer in the qualifying races) and Andy Johnson.  The new track also suited youngest Club driver at 6 1/2 Hayley Ellis (daughter of Foxhall Stadium flag marshall Ron).  Hayley finished joint eighth highest points scorer after the qualifying races and only just missed out on the semi-finals following a run-off!

Dean also managed to get engaged over the winter break to fellow Club member and Chris' sister Tracey on 5th January!

Also building a new track were the Wisbech Fen Tigers Slotstox Club replacing the four-lane track with a six-lane version being used for the first time on Monday 13th May.

Paul was the first Silver roof holder of the season including winning a hattrick of finals!  It was common for fellow Club drivers including Clive Day, Julian Armes and Andy Johnson to donate trophies for final winners.

Club drivers continued to visit the Wisbech Fen Tigers Slotstox Club with Gavin Heard certainly 'ruffling a few feathers' and also welcomed visitors from other clubs.  St.Ives drivers dominated the Final, led by Les Hills and Terry Lemmon, when they visited on 15th March despite the spectacular bumper work of John Curtis and Gavin!  At the next meeting Gavin won his first ever final whilst the following meeting was won by Julian Beaumont and featured visiting drivers Bob Skeels, Malcolm Lee and Marcus Johnson from Wisbech - although they found the fence rather inviting!

On Sunday 24th March Club drivers visited St. Ives with only Andy Johnson by finishing 4th in the final, using a Terry Lemmon built Slotstox purchased that afternoon, stopping a St. Ives domination.  Clive Day won the Grand National. 

Wisbech visitors were also in attendance at the 'Easter Egg Trophy' meeting, where youngster Christer Earrey not only won the junior 'Egg Cup' race but also the Grand Final, and also the following two meetings with both finals won by Paul Mower.

On 20th May Club drivers visited the Aldershot Knights Slotstox Club, wearing interesting sweat shirts, for the 'Wasp Challenge' sponsored by Geoff Roberts.  Whilst no Club drivers made the final - although the did 'test' the Aldershot drivers front bumpers - Kevin Thurlow and Chris Bruce finished 1st and 2nd in the Consolation.

On one trip to Wisbech in June, the Club members arrived to find the place deserted!  Apparently a late decision had been made to move the track to a nearby pub and the visiting members were totally oblivious.  The visitors then drove past the pub trying to find Marcus Johnson's home!

Geoff Roberts and Gary Reynolds visited from Aldershot for a meeting in July and despite being on the receiving end of several crashes in the qualifying races managed to proceed to the final and then finished first and second respectively!

Drivers from the Wisbech Fen Tigers Slotstox Club and St. Ives Slotstox Club raced at the Andy Johnson sponsored Slotstox Pride of The East Championship on 9th August.  St. Ives Blue (or White - depending on the source of information!) grade lady driver Shirley Moyses won with the Club's Julian Beaumont runner-up.  John Tutt from St. Ives won the Best Prepared Car Award with a Harry Smith replica.

Two new Slotstox championships appeared on the Club's fixture list with Kevin Thurlow winning the inaugural Slotstox Suffolk Championship and Dean Cox winning the inaugural Slotstox English Championship.  Dean also won the Slotstox Foxhall Points Championship by a mere 18 points from Mark Cossey and Paul Mower plus the Slotstox Foxhall Championship.

Dean, Mark and Paul all held the Silver roof at some point during the season - this alternated between each although Gradings were updated after each meeting!

Julian Beaumont, Mark Cossey, Gavin Heard and Paul Mower sponsored the Slotstox Suffolk Championship and scribed a comical, if somewhat libelous (!) programme!

The Slotstox Foxhall Championship was this season held in June (14th and 21st) and was again sponsored by Harry and Dean Cox...and so Dean won a self-sponsored championship!  This was a complete change of fortune compared with the 1984 Slotstox Foxhall Championship, as after a much provoked wobbly at the second meeting, Dean almost withdrew!  This season the semi-finals and final were run over four races each (one race in each lane - rather than just one race as in 1984!) although it still proved to be not enough for Slotstox Suffolk Champion Kevin - improving from third in 1984 to runner-up this season!  Dean matched Clive Day in 1984, by winning the Slotstox Foxhall Championship having been highest points scorer in the heats...no mean achievement with thirty-three (compared with twenty-seven in 1984) drivers racing!  Dean scored 47 points and was well ahead of Daren Earrey in second on 37 and Paul Curtis in third on 36.  With so many drivers racing the heats saw some top drivers fail to qualify for the quarter-finals: 1984 Slotstox East Anglian Champion Julian Beaumont; winner of the Slotstox East Anglian Championship later in the season: Derek Taylor; and 1984 Slotstox Foxhall Championship finalist plus 1985 Slotstox Suffolk Championship runner-up Gavin Heard!  Dean painted the Blue and White chequers at 12.30am that night!

At the Suffolk Lawnmowers (final trophies) and Andy Johnson (consolation trophies) sponsored Slotstox English Championship on 1st December, the Club welcomed the Aldershot Knights Slotstox Club for their first official visit.  Also racing, as the Club held its first Sunday meeting, were drivers from the Wisbech Fen Tigers Slotstox Club and St. Ives Slotstox Club meaning that this was the first time that drivers from these four clubs had raced against each other at the Club.  It was also the first time that drivers from these four clubs had raced against each other this season.

The meeting was originally scheduled for 20th January but was one of the three meetings cancelled due to the frost at the start of the season - the 'real' Stock Car season then delayed the finding of a suitable date!

After 44 events, drivers from three of the four clubs were represented across the Slotstox English Championship and Consolation finals:

English Championship: 1st: Dean Cox (Foxhall), 2nd: Andy Ladbroke (Aldershot), 3rd: Pete Tutt (St. Ives) and 4th: Daren Earrey (Foxhall).

Consolation: 1st: Mark Beckett (Aldershot), 2nd: Steve Flack (Aldershot), 3rd: Alan Burns (Aldershot) and 4th: Terry Lemmon (St. Ives).

Dean won the first seven races in the final and was on target to win the championship final with maximum points when leading the eighth and final race before crashing with one to go.

The meeting also featured several cans of spray string!

On 11th October, the Club hosted the Marcus Johnson Menswear sponsored Slotstox East Anglian Championship with Derek winning and Julian (following the Slotstox Pride of the East Championship) again the runner-up!  Derek's son Gary finished third and another successful lady driver, Wisbech Fen Tigers Slotstox Club Silver roof Karen Harwin, finished fourth.

With so many drivers racing regularly at the Club: the downside with having drivers from visiting clubs racing at the Slotstox English Championship and Slotstox East Anglian Championship was that only those Club drivers with a Blue grade status and above automatically qualified!

The Club's 1st birthday meeting was held on 10th May sponsored by CDK Promotions with the final trophies being won by Julian Beaumont, John Curtis, Chris Day and Marie Day whilst Wisbech's Malcolm Lee won the Consolation trophy.  A sew on badge was produced to commemorate the first anniversary and Pauline Banham made a 1st birthday cake.  All twelve drivers that raced at the first 'official' meeting of the Club were still racing at the time of the 1st birthday meeting.  With racing not taking place every Friday this was the Club's 14th Slotstox racing meeting.  The Club began racing more regularly towards the end of the season with the 'once a month' social nights being combined with the introduction of a Slot-Stock Saloons formula (first meeting 16th August - which included Gavin's Heard's impression of the Battle of Britain reducing members to tears of laughter!) promoted purely for fun following a similar introduction at the Wisbech Fen Tigers Slotstox Club.  After impressing in their early introduction Peter and Pauline Banham sponsored one of the early Slot-Stock Saloon meetings - Kevin Wegg winning. Club drivers, along with Aldershot drivers, were invited to two Slot-Stock Saloon Championships at the Wisbech Fen Tigers Slotstox Club - East Anglian on 25 March and British on 15th April but it seems no Club members attended.

On the social side, there was also a Cox-sponsored Foxhall (Closed) Championship pool tournament whilst there was much excitement over some Chips pans being installed behind the bar!

July featured the 1st round of the new Grand Prix Series (including trophies on the final at each of 10 rounds with the series winning triophy measuring 18" by 8") but this meeting was curtailed as the stadium power supply blew leaving Club members to grope around in the dark!  The meeting was delayed to the following week and Kevin Wegg won a first ever final!  Round 2 produced some of the best racing and front bumper work of the season and Mark Cossey won the final but the meeting will be best remembered for John Curtis's Slotstox clearing the fence and destroying a cigarette in the mouth of Michael Hodgins!  The final at rounds 3 and 4 were won by newcomer Phi Balfe and the week after round 3 Phil raced to the first-ever maximum score in a semi-final!  Round 4 included a big crash for the Slotstox of John Curtis demolishing the front bumper assembly and half the chassis!

From 7th November through to February 1986, the Club race night changed from Friday to Thursday during the closed Speedway season.

Andy Johnson won a deserved first final win during November - a meeting that featured Suffolk Champion Kevin Thurlow's Slotstox reduced to a pile of broken plastic - much to members enjoyment.  Kevin won the final at the next meeting with a new Slotstox.

At the Club's end of season gala night meeting, young Mark Banham defended the Foxhall Grand Parade Championship.  Christer Earrey won the 'Best Decorated Car' award whilst Gary Taylor had the best 'Fancy Dress Costume'.  The special knockout cup trophy was won by Michael Hodgins whilst the evening was rounded off in style with an indoor fireworks display courtesy of John Curtis and Clive Day.

The 'Sir-F shuttle' trips continued to Wimbledon (only £3.75 return!) and Great Yarmouth with the summer coach trip to Great Yarmouth including a trip to the amusement park with the Dodgems and Roller Coaster being heavily used!  'Wheelspin' banter between Spedeworth commentator Alan Cullen (organiser of Cullen Coaches) and Kevin Wegg provided some entertainment for readers!  Kevin's reports also expanded to include coverage of real Stock Car racing trips and reviews.