Wayne Dymock has won the final round of the F500’s WA West Coast Series, ahead of David Sinagra and Brock Nanovich.

16 cars made the journey to Manjimup Speedway for the final round of the WCS for 2011-12. With a series up for grabs, drivers were buzzing around the pits completing final prep before the hot-lap session schedulled for 6pm.

Unfortunately a few unexpected scenarios would have an effect on the evening. The first was the news that Jason Pryde couldn't make the show, after being stranded in New Zealand on business, and experiencing issues getting flights back to Aust. Pryde was running a very close 3rd in the series, so the news sent a shock through the field. The next was an unexpected unavailability of a Chief Steward and other Officials. As has been the way in the past, the Hedington brothers of Jeff, Dave and Paul pulled together to get the cars scrutineered, and all helped to keep the meeting running, despite some challenges that lay ahead.

Heats began without too many issues, with Dymock and Tim Winters winning a heat apiece. Winters was piloting the GLB 4 machine of Matt Brown, whilst Brown was running the WA 34 owned by Terry Kowal. Winter's win was a great return to racing from the seasoned competitor, and his first heat clocked up a fastest lap; half a second better then his nearest rival.

The track had transitioned rapidly from that in hot-laps, to a heavy rough surface that probably wasn't the curator's best effort. Graham Terry took a tight heat win over Mark House and Brock Nanovich clipped away nicely for an easy win over Dymock, who had carved up the field to finish second. A few problems began to surface for a few drivers up in the series, and the heavy surface caking vehicles probably added to the issues. Aaron Higgins spent most of the night with the bonnet off the #22 machine after a DNF, as did Shane Andersson, who struggled with the #90, and failed to start heats also with a persistent engine miss.

The final round of heats began with some controversy, and ended with Cody Turrachio taking a smoking fast heat win. Wayne Dymock started 6th, and found the line for his second heat win. The groove in turns one and two had widened, with the high-line being used to great success by both round winners. Unfortunately the final heat saw Tim Winters loop his rental for the evening and then bring on the reds with a pirouette roll in Turn 1.

The feature race began after a much appreciated track grade, with Dymock and Brown leading the field on points. Whilst eyes were on the front, David Sinagra and Mark House were racing for the series, with Sinagra having a good run through the heats and showing plenty of speed, and House a little indifferent run and struggling to grid-up with fuel issues flooding the motor off-throttle.

The first start ended tragically for Andrew Priolo. His brother Jason began the race with a barn-storming run up high, which abruptly ended with the #81 parked and facing the wrong way in turns one and two. The #10 of AP drilled his brother hard after some contact with another car leaving Andrew no room for evasive action and causing damage that required the car to be stripped and repaired midweek for the final night's racing at the Motorplex this weekend.

On a complete restart and Dymock drove away with Brown in pursuit followed by Turrachio, Sinagra, Nanovich and House. No places were traded up-front for the first half of the race, it wasn't till lap 12 when big drama unfolded. Brown in pursuit of Dymock hooked a rut or something caused the car to turn right and start flipping going into turn three. The car flipped end-for-end and wrecked hard into the turn 3 wall. The impact broke a sizable piece off the top of the concrete section of the wall., with the car simultaneously going up in smoke; engine and chassis damage hurting the machine, but thankfully not the man. Brown emerging unhurt and unflustered despite the spectacle.

On the re-start and it was Dymock leading, with Turrachio alongside the #20 machine past the cone, an infringement that would cost the young tyro two positions post-race and bump him from the podium. The track by this stage was quite dry, and positions didn't change much with Tim Winters making up a couple of spots in the dying stages. Post race and the #56 of Bronwyn Channing was disqualified for a technical infringement in failing to run the mandated control compound tyre on the right rear.

Final results saw Dymock complete a faultless performance for the evening. He passed more cars than anyone in the heats, and then led from start to finish in the feature. Despite some serious arm-pump setting in towards the end of the race, he was very pleased with the result. David Sinagra was elevated to second after a solid night, with Brock Nanovich getting on the podium in his rookie year, after a great night's racing.

Final results for the series saw Sinagra take back top-spot and take the win, with House and Higgins making up the top three. Sinagra capped off a great year with another podium, taking his series total to 5, which included 3 round wins. House and Higgins shared a round win a-piece, but didn't have the consistency in speed or track-craft which took the current WA champion to his first WCS series-win.

WCS 2011-12 Top Ten
1 David Sinagra 513
2 Mark House 487
3 Aaron Higgins 364
4 Jason Pryde 351
5 Shane Andersson 304
6 Graham Terry 298
7 Brock Nanovich 297
8 Aaron Fulgrabe 263
9 Andrew Priolo 260
10 Adrian Fogliani 234