Frustrating Day To End The Year

Well, that's the end of season 2007. It was a pretty good ride up until round 5 and round 6 wasn't kind to me either. We put another diff in it (welded up to lock it so both rear wheels turn together or at the same speed at all times) so I went up on the Saturday to get used the the DIFFerence. Wasn't there long, did about 20 Min's, came in and found a leak coming from the gearbox. So I left to go and check it out. Washed it off and couldn't really find anything so decided to see how it went on Sunday. Come Sunday practice and the car is miss firing and carrying on. Tried a few things and started Race 1 from the dead last. Pasted one car even with it running rough, then after 3 of 5 laps, it stopped running all together. I got it going again, we miss the 2nd race, joined on the last lap only for it to stop again in the pits. In the mean time, a wind storm (just as I'm typing the word storm, a bloke on the telly says the word storm in a sentence. That freaks me out when that happens!!) blew our cover apart. Finally traced the problem to the battery kill switch, which must be faulty. So we tied it on hard and it ran fine. Got ready for the last race only for the event to be called off due the thunder storm that washed over us. The officials were concerned for drivers and flaggies safety which is fair enough. But what's that saying, it never rains, it bloody pours, which it did. I had a good chance of having a good day, i could of qualified 3rd and may of finished 3rd in the races and in the last race if it had gone ahead, I had put the road tyres back on and they might of giving me more grip in the wet so who knows what may of happened. Its all past tenths now. I think I finished 5th overall for the year. That top 3 place will have to wait for another year. Have a safe and happy holiday period. John