Thanks for the birthday wishes Pete. I got a Tee shirt with Homer Simpson and Old Rockers Never Die written on it, very appropriate after the band reunion. Ok so here's the wrap up from the weekend racing.
Saturday morning arrived at the track and the weather not so good. Get the car through scrutineering after the paper work and then made the tyre decision full wet tyres for practice/qualifying. Ended up doing quite a few laps
and all I can say it was survival mode.I forgot to take the front bar right off and consequently had a lot of understeer. The best example was coming down from Lukey heights, into MG corner. As soon as I applied the brakes it wanted to keep going so had to get off the brakes and kick the back out to drift round the corner Go Kart style. Great fun but not very fast.
Onto the afternoon and first race 6 laps in dry conditions. Got away to a great start making places up but soon lost them again as the race progressed.
I held onto the Cobra for a while but he muscled his way past and put in some good lap times to be well in front of me at race end.
Sunday morning dawned fine and I started race 2 with new determination and another demon start for the 6 lapper. I thought I was putting in more effort and it turned out I had taken another second off my lap time down to 1min 49.8 sec. Pleased but not ecstatic. Finished behind the Cobra again.
The final race in the arvo was a ten lapper and I started well again and hung onto the back of the Cobra for 3 laps. I was trying to leave my braking into turn 1 till the 100m marker but I found out the car was unstable with hard application, so the brake bias is too much toward the rear and I couldn't stop and change it, so I dropped back to earlier braking point for the race remainder.The Cobra and one of the GT3s spun and I made 2 places. However they caught me on the final lap and that was how it ended back to finish in tenth. The car is going well though and I can carry on improving the handling now the brake & motor issues have been dealt with.Next event is the Historic meeting at Sandown on 10th,11th and 12th of November.
Ross