Qualifying saw Adam Smith put himself pole in 27turn, making a good start to his title defense from a very fast Dave Ringsall, the pair of them being the cream of the crop in this stock class. Kevin Brunsden, having dominated Carpet Wars the week before continued his dominance and secured his pole position in the second round of the day, not improving that time due to traffic and mistakes in his remaining qualifying heats. Nam Gun Park drove very well all day and ended up a little over 6 seconds behind Kevin and 3 seconds in front of Paul Upton. Malcom Hall, the local hot shot, had a terrible day in qualifying but never the less still managed to place himself within the top ten. Modified TQ man was Christopher Delves, less than 2 seconds in front of Rob Fox, continuing their close racing from last year in the 19turn championship. Ricky Copsey rounded off the top 3 in Modified but small mistakes had cost him big throughout the day, this subsequently putting him a substantial seven seconds behind Rob. Corally had secured pole in each class, but would there be a Corally win in each class?

In the stock Recoil class Mark young just pipped Malcolm by two hundredths of a second to take pole. In the modified Recoil class it was Garry Brace who held FTD all day, until the final round when a combination of problems and a very fast Dave Ringsall demoted him to second place. It was plain to see that the stock Recoils was the class where the drivers could have a little fun and still be competitive as was the intention. The modified Recoils saw slightly more intense competition amongst the drivers.

27 Turn Finals
Adam Smith made clean starts in both finals from which he never looked back. A very fast Dave Ringsall wasn’t going to let him go all together, but small mistakes every now and then allowed Adam to increase his lead. Matt Pocknell, who had qualified third on the grid behind the two Corally drivers, did his best to keep up with the pair at the front, but there was no way past. He would have to settle for third overall in this first round. In both finals the top four drivers were evenly spaced out and finished as they had qualified. Dave Ledger, who last year had been one of the men to beat, had a torrid meeting not qualifying or finishing as high as everyone expected. It’s early in the championship though and there is plenty of time for him and others to catch the pair of Corally’s that dominated this round.

19 Turn Finals
The finals had mixed results. In the first Kevin made a mistake and had to drive his way through the field to catch a very fast Nam Gun Park. On arrival he found getting past impossible with Nam Gun driving exceptionally well to keep in front of this modified national winning driver. Phillip Randall drove very well to bump up a spot from his qualifying position, where as Paul Upton had dropped a single place to finish fourth after making a small mistake in the race. The second final saw Nam Gun and Kevin racing tightly together but a small pile up in front of the rostrum cost both drivers the win of this final, with Kevin not even registering a single lap and having to give up his chances at a second win in so many weeks. David Saul won the second leg, in front of Karl Jackson followed closely by Malcolm Hall who had obviously started to change his luck at the end of the day!

Modified Finals
Christopher Delves led both finals from the offset. Leg one saw Ricky Copsey fail to get off the line and Christopher was comfortably leading the race in front of Fabien Simonini when a piece of tape that was coming up off of the carpet saw the end of his chances of a win, Fabien then inherited the lead. A recovering Rob Fox pushed his Phi hard to catch Fabien, but just as it looked like he was about to pass clipped a corner and ended his chances of a win. Brian Shardlow took third place followed by Steve Lissamore, both drivers having driven well in the first leg.
The second leg was very different. With Christopher not encountering any more carpet tape he took the win from Rob who was seven seconds behind him at the end of the race. Fabien drove well once again and improved to third from his fourth position spot on the grid. Ricky made it off the line this time and was incredibly fast, but mistakes cost him time on track which he wouldn’t recover.
Aggregating the two finals Rob took the overall win from Fabien, the pair tying on points but the win going to Rob on qualifying. Steve Lissamore took the final podium spot of the day in front of TQ man Christopher.

Recoils Finals
In the standard class Malcolm Hall took the first leg victory from Mark Young by a few tenths of a second, but it was a very different story in the second leg of the final where Mark won by two laps from Malcolm, thus awarding him with the overall win in the stock class.
In the modified class Dave Ringsall took both leg wins with Tim Bell in second and Keith Helmke in third. Garry Brace and Richard Thorpe had been very quick in both finals with Richard getting into first place at one point in the second leg, but mechanical problems forced them both to retire in both finals. Wayne Pratley drove well in the second leg to claim third and put him fifth overall.