Wet Wet Wet. Band of my childhood and fellow Glaswegians, also the most apt description of Sunday’s racing (my analogy that it resembled a certain tubby celebrity’s gusset in a kebab shop, used on Facebook, was apparently crude…)
Qualifying was actually not too bad place wise, positioned 7th, but at over 1 second off the pace, work needed to be done.
My race engineer, Barry Holmes, loaned me some better rear tyres for race 1 with a less feathered tread and these definitely helped. Brakes were still a problem, however. The pedal just lacked any bite and sometimes you were on them for quite some time before you actually got any stopping power. Started 7th, finished 6th, just managing to keep a charging Kenny Thirlwall behind me on the last few corners.
For race 2 we uncovered the braking issue, the pad material was no longer attached to the backing plate! Swapping on some new pads made an immense difference, a difference which unfortunately caught me out when a dab before the chicane actually unsettled the car massively allowing Kenny Thirlwall past demoting me to 7th. From then on I had to defend against Ian Munro and Greg Barnard to secure my 7th, a bit disappointing.
Race 3 video:
Belter of a start, got the drop on David Sleigh and drew along side Vic Covey Jnr. Vic kept it going round the outside then broke away whilst I defended from Dave.
Once Dave dropped back in to fighting with Ian Munro I got to fight with Vic after he ran wide at the hairpin. Just about lost it trying to go round the outside at Duffus when I hit the greasy bit but managed to gather it back and get the cut back out of Macintyres. 6th place to 5th, the best result of the weekend.