Russ Rallye
ClioSport Club Member
Had an ‘Interesting’ weekend shall we say!
Weather couldn’t make its mind up all day Saturday and quali started damp and got wetter and included a safety car for good measure. Fairly sure there was some oil down in quali and I just couldn’t get the car stopped for hizzy’s meaning I ran through the chicane twice, couldn’t stop at Tower on my fastest lap either so ended up gravel tracking. Ended up with 2 flying laps before the weather got too wet. 5th overall was the position, inside of the grid though so not too upset. Sector times showed we were as quick as anything else in the wet.
Start of the race and got a great start and passed all 4 cars in front before the first corner. Lead for the first 10 laps and car felt good apart from struggling with 3rd gear, would later start to jump out of 3rd and 4th.
Bit of a scruffy pit stop bought us out in 4th but with sight of 3rd and 2nd place cars. Managed to chase them down and passed Martin Addison’s 106 before druids, Russell Hird made it tricky in the Dc5 but he gave the place away eventually when he couldn’t stop for Hizzy’s. Held P2 comfortably to the end of the race, The Simpson guys in P1 too fast and too far up the road. Provisional result P2 overall and class B winner with fastest lap.
However we got hit with a 2 lap penalty for missing the mandatory pit window by 45 seconds! Official result was 22nd I think. Very disappointing after working so hard but race was fun, gearbox needs some tlc now so not sure when we’ll be back out, possibly Silverstone with TARC.
Russ
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Weather couldn’t make its mind up all day Saturday and quali started damp and got wetter and included a safety car for good measure. Fairly sure there was some oil down in quali and I just couldn’t get the car stopped for hizzy’s meaning I ran through the chicane twice, couldn’t stop at Tower on my fastest lap either so ended up gravel tracking. Ended up with 2 flying laps before the weather got too wet. 5th overall was the position, inside of the grid though so not too upset. Sector times showed we were as quick as anything else in the wet.
Start of the race and got a great start and passed all 4 cars in front before the first corner. Lead for the first 10 laps and car felt good apart from struggling with 3rd gear, would later start to jump out of 3rd and 4th.
Bit of a scruffy pit stop bought us out in 4th but with sight of 3rd and 2nd place cars. Managed to chase them down and passed Martin Addison’s 106 before druids, Russell Hird made it tricky in the Dc5 but he gave the place away eventually when he couldn’t stop for Hizzy’s. Held P2 comfortably to the end of the race, The Simpson guys in P1 too fast and too far up the road. Provisional result P2 overall and class B winner with fastest lap.
However we got hit with a 2 lap penalty for missing the mandatory pit window by 45 seconds! Official result was 22nd I think. Very disappointing after working so hard but race was fun, gearbox needs some tlc now so not sure when we’ll be back out, possibly Silverstone with TARC.
Russ
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