Race report: Chris Jacque Div1
Qualifying 1 : P3
A very lucky scruffy lap saw me get a PB and take 3rd on the grid!
Race : 3rd
I'm unhappy with myself , I was testing gearing for club as I was not happy about the car wanting to over-steer here and I messed up my gearing leaving a car which was good out of club but slow accelerating and liked to lock the rear axle under braking....self sabotage
Anyway a solid start and then a good HARD battle with Tim on lap1, I did not want to wreck my car and I think this affected the way I drove.
I got up close and passed Tim briefly into Vale, but I either gave him too much room or he decided to force me out as far as possible and I ended up caring more about staying on track than braking late into the corner.
Lap 14 I had a very unusual spin into Stowe I just managed to touch the grass and around I went
I lost 3rd after recovering, out braking myself into Abbey, then managed to get out of shape again into Vale the following lap leaving me down in 5th.
To ice the cake so to speak I then dropped it coming out of copse but managed to do a 360 for the crowd and carried on...Was having one of those oh crap feelings about this race that it was not meant to be...
I managed to catch back up to Alex on lap 19 just in time to see him repeat what I did out of Copse but not manage to catch it. Not nice to see someone crash but gave me 4th back.
I managed to catch Antony around lap 20 and we had a little play being very mindful of my front wing which is a bad idea when trying to overtake someone.
He pitted lap 22 and I pitted end of lap 24 and emerged ahead of him which was nice!
The rest of the race was a gap keeping exercise to Antony with the occasional eye popping move by a back marker (looking at you Per on lap 39!) :eek:
I must say I really struggled in the later parts of the stint keeping it on the black stuff. Was very glad it was over when it was.
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small congratulations to Tim and big one to Mark. Only joking, great solid drive.
I look forward to Istanbul! hopefully with a weather forecast like worlds again hint hint!
Regards
Chris