This year Plymouth returned to it’s previous venue, roof intact this time! The track design was a nice balance of technical sections that flowed together well, rewarding accurate driving.
Special note must go to Matt White managing to clip a corner and get reasonable air, not being happy with that then used an innocent marshal’s hand to gain more height sending his car about 10 feet in the air!

Saturday was 19 Turn day, allowing drivers to become accustomed to the track before scaring themselves with modified motors! Qualifying was successful for the Corally team with 6 out of the 10 A finalists driving the SP12X, including Matt White setting TQ but continuing the 19 Turn curse that no pole sitter has yet won the A final!!

Sunday was a much faster affair and with the Corallys going so well looked set to be interesting. Early on it was clear the Corallys that worked so well on Saturday were still working, ending up taking 5 of the top 10 positions, 4 being in the top 5 with the only interloper being worlds A finalist Andy Griffith! Sunday’s final was a mixed affair with TQ man Chris Kerswell’s Corally getting a good clean start, 2nd place Corally driver Russ Williams was unfortunately tagged in the first corner mêlée leaving 9th Place Keith Robertson and 7th Place Roger Manwaring to pick their way through to 2nd and 3rd at the end of lap one. Chris had about a 2 second lead to Keith which he maintained for the entire race taking his first modified win and breaking Griff’s string of wins. Keith and Roger were involved in a tangle with back markers towards the end of the race, Keith eventually taking 2nd with Roger 3rd putting two Corallys on the podium.

Chris used the Corally SP12X WC edition kit with Parma Grey rear and Magenta front tyres, topped with a Parma Zytek body. Peak cells powered his Peak 5.5 brushless motor controlled by an LRP Sphere speed controller. As normal his KO radio and Spektrum receiver provided trouble free, precise control.

A special thanks goes the Plymouth club and the BRCA committee for doing a superb job of organising the meeting. Also the Doris girls and the catering ladies for organising the pasties!

Thanks to RRCi for the images.