Now I'm awake enough for a quick race report
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Well off to a bad start when I'd realised that I hadn't installed the track
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So I had 15mins to work the track out which fortunately is not a difficult one. I'd decided to modify a setup of mine from Valer Banen which seemed pretty stable. Decided to make a couple of practice entries to the pitlane as it's quite a tricky one.
Qualifying:
Made a tidy lap, but knew that the grid would be pretty damn tight so I was pleased with 7th
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Race 1:
Hmmmmm. Well have to admit I was concerned about being able to have a contact free 1st lap due to the nature of this little track, but it was worse than I expected. First I ran into the back of someone who started directly behind Jason who didn't move at the start (never mind mate we all do daft things like that:laugh2
so dropped right back. Made some places as cars were running wide into the 2 hairpins. Got roughed up from behind a couple of times causing me to lose the back end and run off track a couple of times.
Then took a big hit from a car running into Adelaide to fast and the suspension took some damage. It was behaving fine accept the switch back before Adelaide where it was trying to spin out every time I went through. Suprised to find myself in 8th with 2 laps to go and then the car started to slow!!! I'd ran out of fuel:messed:. That's the first time I've done that online or offline!! So a DNF.
Race 2:
Starting from 13th I managed to get tight into T1 and gained about 6 places as everyone battled for position. Then Keith and somebody else got wide into Adelaide and I managed to get in tight again to gain 2 more places into 4th. Started to get onto the back of Robert in 3rd and gave him a little nudge coming out of Adelaide and he got a little crossed up, but didn't lose it and he continued on and pulled ahead of me by a couple of seconds. The top 4 stayed even for several laps until pitstops. I came in last for mine and I was surprised to rejoin in the lead only to run off after losing the backend into the switchback and dropped to 3rd. I thought I'd thrown it away only to see Laurance and William get together in the next corner. I got passed William as he'd lost momentum on the corner exit and pulled alongside Laurance. I backed off entering the fast chicane onto the starting grid so that we didn't crash, but kept tight behind him and nipped down the inside into T1 to retake P1. Had to settle my nerves a bit and managed to give myself a little breathing space. Took it gently on the last couple of laps, but not enough to allow Laurance to get too near me for my first Friday night win:victory:.
Couldn't of been more different the 2 races, but both were very entertaining. Nice to see some new faces joining the Friday night events to.
Looking forward to the next one. Thanks guys for another gr8 evening of racing:wink2:.
