1972 : No Race took place - Winner was voted for by Club Members
1973 - 1980 : Races for Novices Only - Organised by the Longdendale Stock Car Supporters Club
1981 - 1989 : Races for Novices Only - Organised by BSCDA - NB. 1981 race took place in early 1982
1990 - 1996 : Whites or Whites & Yellows Race with first Novice home awarded the title
1997 : Race for Novices Only
1998 - 2000 : Whites or Whites & Yellows Race with first Novice home awarded the title
2001 : Top Scoring Novice of a meeting
2002 : Top Scoring Novice in the second half of the National Series Rounds
2003 - 2008 : Top scoring Novice in all the National Series Rounds
2009 - 2010 : Top scoring Novice in the Shoot-Out Rounds
2011 - 2018 : Top scoring Novice over the whole season
2019 - The Novice Of The Year scores normal grading points but with a multiplier.
The further up the grades a novice climbs the more points they will score towards the Novice Of The Year.
The multipliers are Whites x1, Yellows x2, Blues x3 and Reds and Superstars x4.

	1972 John Park (157)		Thu, 1st January () () () () () () () () () ()		Thu, 1st January () () () () () () () () () ()		1975 Chris Pickles (284)Dick Harvey (445)Howard Clayton (226)Robbie Craig (62)Pete Whitehead (31)James Ashworth (88)Nev Woodhull (43)Steve Baxter (457)Jim Sanders (268)John Rawlins (127)		Thu, 1st January () () () () () () () () () ()
	Thu, 1st January () () () () () () () () () ()		Thu, 1st January () () () () () () () () () ()		Thu, 1st January () () () () () () () () () ()		Thu, 1st January () () () () () () () () () ()		1981 Pete Morton (132)Ian Smith (367)Stephen Froggatt (240)Shaun Leigh (75)John Holden (510)Fred Millar (118)John Carr (378)Simon Mellors (140)Dick Smith (507)Pete Billows (402)
	Thu, 1st January () () () () () () () () () ()		Thu, 1st January () () () () () () () () () ()		Thu, 1st January () () () () () () () () () ()		1985 Dave Johnson (383)		Thu, 1st January () () () () () () () () () ()
	Thu, 1st January () () () () () () () () () ()		Thu, 1st January () () () () () () () () () ()		Thu, 1st January () () () () () () () () () ()		1990 Warren Hunter (20)		1991 Craig Smith (407)
	1992 Daniel Harter (4)		Thu, 1st January () () () () () () () () () ()		1994 Andy Robinson (140)		1995 Tristan May (27)		Thu, 1st January () () () () () () () () () ()
	Thu, 1st January () () () () () () () () () ()		Thu, 1st January () () () () () () () () () ()		Thu, 1st January () () () () () () () () () ()		2000 Matthew Hodgson (103)		2001 Harry Fowkes (206)
	2002 Matt Newson (16)		2003 Mark Keeling (271)