It all looked good.....and then!!

Things were looking good in the lead up to this weekend. We put the car on a diet and so forth and ordered 4 new tyres..that didn't arrive. I was told they will be here Monday (they arrived but 2 have been sent back cause they are the wrong size!!).
So the weekend started badly even before the weekend started. I was feeling pretty down knowing the tyres I have are knacked. Qual started and the first problem surfaced, brake trouble. The pedal was nearly going to the floor, for reasons unknown. I stuck it out best I could but my best wasn't good enough and I Qual 5th.

Once back in the pits problem #2, oil leak. It was hard to get at and I ended up missing the first race. Dad cut and burned himself trying to fix it. We then changed and bleed the brakes, but this didn't really do any good. There was no air in the braking system. We got ready for Race 2 and I carved my way through to 5th from the rear of grid. Not bad considering.

Problem #3 also hampered me in having gearbox trouble and not being able to select 4th or get out of it for a time. This wasn't a problem in race 3 but came back again in the final.

Race 3 we improved again to finish 3rd, but I also had another problem in the the power steering. It was fine till I started warming the tyres up on the formation lap then the steering went heavy. Reason again, unknown.

In the final race there was a bit of carnage at the first corner, I lost a place but was still in 3rd as one of my class was part of the carnage.
I would of finished 3rd if not for being held up by a faster car having troubles thus letting a car I was battling with catch and pass me when I couldn't get it into gear (yet again)

So once again I have finished lower than I could of. 5th when I could of finished in the top 3.

But I guess others had a worse day than me, one being my mate R.Marsden who crashed his HQ. At least it wasn't his Skyline.

This has hurt my chances in this years Targa B championship. I have dropped to 4th and 1st is now 96 points ahead, with 3 rounds remaining.
I can still finish 2nd, but it would take the leader to have a bad day for us to challenge for the title.

And so we have a few things to rectify and 5 weeks to do it. Its possible we may miss the next round although I hate missing race meetings. We dont get alot of them. I really wish I could race more often.

Just a week to go!!

Nearly finished. Round 3 is just around the corner. Hoping for fine weather. Racing against 4WD cars is hard enough, let alone trying to do it in the wet. Hoping that all we have done to the old girl is enough to improve the car by half a sec or more. 4 new tyres will arrive just in time for the weekend, which will also help.
If it all goes well, I could be carrying on like some unknown F1 driver did last weekend, forget his name!! Beleive me, I will too!!