Well it was certainly wet today and at times not much warmer than last weekend !
This was to be my first autosolo which is part of the CMSG (Cotswold MotorSport Group) championship, plus it was the first event driving for me since the end of November last year !
The day started off well - although there wasn't a lot of grip around, but the weather although windy was dry and a dry line was appearing. However after our marshalling slot the weather changed and the rain came in and it was heavy !
This didn't help with the grip levels and at lunch i was well down the order and lying behind Andrew (father in law) and plenty of others in 19th overall.
After lunch the rain continued on the 3rd test, but luckily on the final test the sun came out and the rain stopped. During the day I slowly got my mind around the tests and back into competitive driving.
For the final runs of the last test i was nearly 4 seconds adrift from Andrew and thought there wasn't much chance of catching him up. However after a couple of slower runs for him, i knew i had made up about 2 seconds on him, so it was all down to the final run of the final test. It had to be quicker than him, luckily although it was slightly slower than my 2nd run (you get 3 runs at each test) I had made up more than enough time to take a class place from Andrew and win the 'inter-family challenge'
At the end of the event I was 11th overall and 5th in class - not too bad from 45 entries.
Full results can be seen here
Videos from the day will be up on YouTube and here soon.
A picture from the middle of the day - showing how wet it was is available here :-
http://www.flickr.com/photos/scott_boulton/6905154031/in/set-72157629390838483
This was to be my first autosolo which is part of the CMSG (Cotswold MotorSport Group) championship, plus it was the first event driving for me since the end of November last year !
The day started off well - although there wasn't a lot of grip around, but the weather although windy was dry and a dry line was appearing. However after our marshalling slot the weather changed and the rain came in and it was heavy !
This didn't help with the grip levels and at lunch i was well down the order and lying behind Andrew (father in law) and plenty of others in 19th overall.
After lunch the rain continued on the 3rd test, but luckily on the final test the sun came out and the rain stopped. During the day I slowly got my mind around the tests and back into competitive driving.
For the final runs of the last test i was nearly 4 seconds adrift from Andrew and thought there wasn't much chance of catching him up. However after a couple of slower runs for him, i knew i had made up about 2 seconds on him, so it was all down to the final run of the final test. It had to be quicker than him, luckily although it was slightly slower than my 2nd run (you get 3 runs at each test) I had made up more than enough time to take a class place from Andrew and win the 'inter-family challenge'
At the end of the event I was 11th overall and 5th in class - not too bad from 45 entries.
Full results can be seen here
Videos from the day will be up on YouTube and here soon.
A picture from the middle of the day - showing how wet it was is available here :-
http://www.flickr.com/photos/scott_boulton/6905154031/in/set-72157629390838483
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