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So just finished up the first league race in the all series event, you could say it was a day for three's... 3rd Place in Qualifying with my fastest ever lap at Snetterton a 1:03.654, butit wasn't good enough to topple Maarten Steverink and Rudy Van Buren who had 1:02.976 and 1:03.204. Then a 3rd place in the first race and 3rd again in the 2nd Race. It was close on times but not too much track action but still alot of fun and no mistakes in the 1st race meant I could keep a good steady pace to the front runners even though I made a small change to the car for the race which slowed it down on the straights which was a mistake so I changed it back to the qualifying setup for the second race.
The 2nd race, there was some contact into turn 1 on about the 3rd lap which pitched me off the track, I think Danilo Biggio locked up as I went to go around the outside of him, he hit my front right wheel, allowing Paul O'Brien to overtake up the inside of us both, which dropped me down to 4th, from there on out the car didn't handle too well and I couldn't make up the gap to the drivers in front, lucky for me but unlucky for him that Rudy Van Buren had a spin and I was able to take up 3rd to be overtaken again about a lap later only to see the Rudy go wide at turn 1 spin off and hit the barrier on the inside hard and retire! I kept on trying to catch Paul O'Brien but the car was too much of a handful in the second race.
I couldn't break into the 1:03s in the second race just due to the cars handling, where as in the first race the car was pretty consistent in the high 1:03s and low 1:04s. But all in all it was a hard fought 25 laps of fun and I think I outperformed my expectations in terms of qualifying and race pace, shame there wasn't a few more drivers but onwards to the next event.
Here are the results for Class B
Race 1 Results
So just finished up the first league race in the all series event, you could say it was a day for three's... 3rd Place in Qualifying with my fastest ever lap at Snetterton a 1:03.654, butit wasn't good enough to topple Maarten Steverink and Rudy Van Buren who had 1:02.976 and 1:03.204. Then a 3rd place in the first race and 3rd again in the 2nd Race. It was close on times but not too much track action but still alot of fun and no mistakes in the 1st race meant I could keep a good steady pace to the front runners even though I made a small change to the car for the race which slowed it down on the straights which was a mistake so I changed it back to the qualifying setup for the second race.
The 2nd race, there was some contact into turn 1 on about the 3rd lap which pitched me off the track, I think Danilo Biggio locked up as I went to go around the outside of him, he hit my front right wheel, allowing Paul O'Brien to overtake up the inside of us both, which dropped me down to 4th, from there on out the car didn't handle too well and I couldn't make up the gap to the drivers in front, lucky for me but unlucky for him that Rudy Van Buren had a spin and I was able to take up 3rd to be overtaken again about a lap later only to see the Rudy go wide at turn 1 spin off and hit the barrier on the inside hard and retire! I kept on trying to catch Paul O'Brien but the car was too much of a handful in the second race.
I couldn't break into the 1:03s in the second race just due to the cars handling, where as in the first race the car was pretty consistent in the high 1:03s and low 1:04s. But all in all it was a hard fought 25 laps of fun and I think I outperformed my expectations in terms of qualifying and race pace, shame there wasn't a few more drivers but onwards to the next event.
Here are the results for Class B
Race 1 Results
gpcos_all-round_series_official_result_2011.04_snetterton_2011-10-06.pdf |
Race 2 Results
gpcos_all-round_series_official_result_2011.04_snetterton_2011-10-06s.pdf |
Hopefully there will be a replay from the event at some point. See you at the next one!
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