We could be a V8supercar Driver!!!
Interesting weekend. Didn't get off to a great start. A youngest, James McGuinness unfortunately put his Formula Vee into the wall and was stuck in the car with a broken foot for some time. This was in qualifying and was doing quite well which is more the shame. Get well soon James.
Anyway, back to me. After all this blog is all about MEEEEEEE.
So, Id lashed out and brought an after market ECU (Apexi), had that tuned on the Friday (thanks Andy at Pro Automotive) but it seems we cant extract any more power from it until I buy more bits and pieces (it never ends) So after qualifying I knew I was in for a rough day. Q 6th, had a good race for 5th with an ex Production Car Commodore until I made a mistake and he got away. As usual the camera worked until the start of the race then stopped. This happens to me all the time at least once. I changed the batteries for the next race.
Well I got pissed off in Race 2, since I was made to start at the rear of grid from no fault of my own. For some reason they grid list that was given to the officials didn't include me.
So I raced through the field, passed about 8 cars in 5 laps to get back to where I should of been. Didn't quite get there, finished 8th on the road (7th in class. Targa B and C ran together at this meeting)
Race 3 turned to turds. I tried to follow an Escort (yes a car) through a gap and got sandwiched
then...... well, watch the video.
The Final race I was back up the front, starting from 6th. Another touch on the first lap and I was starting to think it wasn't my day. I blame the rear brakes a bit. Had new rear disc's but the old standard pads and I was locking up all day. That could of been why I couldn't go any faster too. I did pretty well in lap time consistency, out of 24 fast laps (not counting first lap's) I recorded 20 in the 62 sec bracket. And most of them were 62-62.5 secs
I raced hard to gain a spot in the final, but made another small mistake and then spend the race defending.
Anyway, back to me. After all this blog is all about MEEEEEEE.
So, Id lashed out and brought an after market ECU (Apexi), had that tuned on the Friday (thanks Andy at Pro Automotive) but it seems we cant extract any more power from it until I buy more bits and pieces (it never ends) So after qualifying I knew I was in for a rough day. Q 6th, had a good race for 5th with an ex Production Car Commodore until I made a mistake and he got away. As usual the camera worked until the start of the race then stopped. This happens to me all the time at least once. I changed the batteries for the next race.
Well I got pissed off in Race 2, since I was made to start at the rear of grid from no fault of my own. For some reason they grid list that was given to the officials didn't include me.
So I raced through the field, passed about 8 cars in 5 laps to get back to where I should of been. Didn't quite get there, finished 8th on the road (7th in class. Targa B and C ran together at this meeting)
Race 3 turned to turds. I tried to follow an Escort (yes a car) through a gap and got sandwiched
then...... well, watch the video.
The Final race I was back up the front, starting from 6th. Another touch on the first lap and I was starting to think it wasn't my day. I blame the rear brakes a bit. Had new rear disc's but the old standard pads and I was locking up all day. That could of been why I couldn't go any faster too. I did pretty well in lap time consistency, out of 24 fast laps (not counting first lap's) I recorded 20 in the 62 sec bracket. And most of them were 62-62.5 secs
I raced hard to gain a spot in the final, but made another small mistake and then spend the race defending.
I have the parts I need on the way, so if all goes well, I should be fighting for a win at the next round at Symmons Plains on July 27th.
posted by JOHN BRIGGS at Monday, May 19, 2008
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