I decided to take a slight detour on my way back home, from southampton past the track on thursday afternoon. And upon arrival I was shocked at how well the track looks, as I had not been down there for a while it was nice to see the track in great condition.
I decided to spend a hour tidying a few bits up and for some reason decided to carry on the Neo feeling and sweep the whole track-Dont ask me why!
But boy did it look good after it! so I then swept the track and did a quick track walk just to show people the condition. And then had in mind what I wanted to change on my setup since the last time I was down.
Clanfield Summer Series Rnd 2
8th of may I arrived at the track with a hope the track was ok and that the rain would pass by. And not surprisingly the track was very dry considering the rain the night before.
Right back to the interesting stuff...
I went out for practice to get back into it after a week's break after Neo and just to make sure my car was ok. And felt very good, it was starting to pick up some muck. So I only did a few laps, and noticed my RX was trying to glitch on me.
Qualifying went ok for me, Mixed struggling with glitching in Q1+Q2 So I decided to rebind. And thankfully seemed to solve the issue. And the other 2 rounds went ok coming in 3rd and 4th I think. And then putting me 7th in the A.
Which is ok but I should have done a lot better tbh Top 3 for sure, but sometimes it just does not happen.
A Final
I decided to stick with doing 8 mins 30 which I can do very easily, I go a good start overtaking a few people into turn 1. Which I seem to be able to make solid starts most times. And luckily avoiding the usual 1st corner (MUST WIN) that some driver's get. Makes no sense to me specially in a 30 minute final!
Anyway I was lucky enough to slip past it all and think get into 3rd then take 2nd spot after turn 3 and then it was time to hunt down Jon Wolfe, who already had a scary lead.
So decided to keep it fast, but keep it on all 4's and we both started to pull away from the pack. And suddenly on lap 12 my car ran out of fuel! Which was very strange, so that cost me a 2 minute lap. So I went from P2 down to P8! great, so I needed to really push hard to work my way back through the field and did just that putting in 5 laps 38's 1 37 and 1 39 then the rest were 38's. I started to then work my way back through the field by lap 25 I was back up into 6th and slowly hunted them back down. With about 3 minutes to go, I was in 4th and could here Chris on the mic, calling out my lap time's and new fastest laps and so on. I was determined to take that 3rd spot, getting within about 4 seconds of 3rd spot. Then disaster struck, and my car ran out of fuel at about 6:30 mins! think on lap 43 just after putting in the fastest lap time of 36.88.
I then came in 5th place after being overtaken by 4th place, It was very gutting to have issues-that is very odd. I think there could be a crack or something in my tank and a tad rich bottom end. Either way I will find out the issue, but was a great shame as It has to be my best race so far in terms of flat out pace and consistency. My avg was down to 42 but should have been lower if that 2 min lap was not there. Either way was a cracking race, and great driving by all driver's and letting faster cars through and so on. Unfortunately for Jon, his fuel line split on lap 30 which cost have massively coming in 7th.
Great to see all the Agama driver's Jon, Ben, Mark and myself were on pace. Unfortunately for Ben, a unfortunate tyre choice and first time with a new car and new engine. He was leading the B final by a long way and driving great, but unfortunately engine block came loose costing him. And Mark B who was doing well all day, and slowly getting used to the Agama after years of truggy. Everyone seems to be enjoying the car.
Big thanks again to the Clanfield Committee for putting on a great meeting! And my Pit men Lee and Ben
Big thanks too
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