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Kyle Branson wins BRCA 200mm National at the Snetterton track (05/04/2009)

By:: Reporter-2
Linked to:: Serpent 720 -09 1/10th scale 200mm

Saturday was a bit of bad day for us until the end of the day, we had radio problems all day on spectrum as well as some others too. We tryed everything we could to stop this from occuring but nothing would work, but near the end of the day it stopped. We had chance to try a couple of engines and that was about it, the car was good though from a previous test-day that we had done. Mark had problems earlier on in the day aswell because he hit somebody full speed on the straight and his car was not right until the end of the day where he got it near to where he had the car before. My dad re-built my car at the end of the day ready for Sunday.

On Sunday the Weather was great for a change, in the practise session my car was really good and Mark got his car feeling right again. In the first round of qualyfying I set TQ by 1 second in front of Mark, In the second round a backmarker spun and I hit him then a car hit me which took a masive chunk out of the tyre, I was still on TQ. In the third round the same thing happened I was following a backmarker for 1 lap and he didnt let me past, a refere told him to let me past and he still didnt so I tryed to get past and I came off worst, I still had TQ by 100th of a second in front of Mark. And in the final round I improved my time by nearly 1 second and I took TQ 1 second in front of Mark.

In the Final my car stalled at the start and my Dad had to restart it, this put me a lap down. I managed to unlap myself and climb my way up the feild as the car was good enough. I got up to second behind Mark but was a lap down, I got past him so we was both on the same lap I slowly pulled away but a backmarker spun in front of mark so marked slowed to avoid it and about 3 cars went into the back of him breaking his car. I won and set the fastest lap in qualyfying. My Serpent 720 performed really well all weekend. I am looking forward to my next race at Mendip and hope to do well there too.

Until next time,

Kyle