What a weekend! 2 races later and 2 seconds knocked off my time J 

I entered the Open Sports & Saloon race on the Saturday for a bit of extra time in the car, qualified 12^th out of 16 starters and managed a 1.27. in practice,  with a red flag in-between, so it was an ok to start the weekend off with.

As always I didn’t make the greatest of starts!  So spent the first couple of laps catching up but I did have a fantastic race with a guy in a GT Junior.  We fought for most of the race, such close racing and finally on the 8^th lap I managed to pass him on the inside of folly, a move I wasn’t sure would pull off and a father on the pit wall closing his eyes in panic!  I did pull it off and I managed a 1.26.9 on the last lap so another new time for me J 
The driver of the GT Junior even came over after the race to say it was one of the hardest but best races he has ever had, and he also improved on his time!

The Team and I decided to camp for this one on Saturday night, what an experience!  We managed to have a very cold, dribble of a shower, a Ferrari alarm went off at 3am and took over half an hour to stop and then the birds started at 4am!  By 6.30am it was time to get up and start another day!

Qualifying was a surprise for everyone, I only went and managed and 1.25.084 my best time yet!  I saw it come up on the dash and didn’t quite believe it until I saw it on the pit board the following lap – happy days J  As you can imagine I was jumping for joy, I was 18^th on the grid,  highest place yet and managed to be in the pack with again some new people I hadn’t been up against before and 2 seconds quicker!!!
It would seem everyone else also didn’t believe I could do a 1.25.0 as everyone asked which part of the track I cut off to get this time, including Dad! 

I was on the outer side of the circuit for the start again, but did manage to get a better start and stick with the pack but once at Quarry, I still managed to lose places.  It was a good race, I overtook and caught others up and managed 3 laps of  1.25’s, I even started to chase down the group  in front, but unfortunately there wasn’t enough laps in the race to really get behind them.

Its been a fantastic weekend, two races, two signatures and two seconds off my best time J  Can’t wait for the next round!!

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