Had my first race in the Armed Forces Race Challenge (AFRC) at Croft race circuit, had mixed fortunes with the car, I was using the works 206 gti (140bhp & 1100kg) unfortunately the car didn't turn up in the best shape with various issues including failing brake master cylinder, 1mm of pad left on the rear brakes and the wrong wheel bolts to name a few, so my test day was cut short by having to fix various issues, rear pads, wheel bolts and a re bleed was done but just had to put up with a awful brake pedal feel. During testing I had a huge off coming into sunny in corner, it's after a series of flat out in 4th corners, got it into a 4 wheel slide after bancroft corner and was fast approaching the braking zone, onto the brakes and the back snapped round chucking me into the grass and I was just a passenger then as the car span over the grass and back onto the track then onto the grass the other side narrowly missing a MR2.
All set up and ready for the race in the paddock
The other team locost suffered a failed roll pin in the gearbox but we got that fixed and back out for qualifying
The race is a 40 minute race with a mandatory 1 minute pit stop, can be either a single driver or in my case a shared drive so both drivers have to qualify.
My partner had a big off at the same place as me but went into the tyre wall
Had to use my qualifying time to repair it and get it back through scrutineering before I could get three hot laps to get my qualifying done.
Do to qualify out of the allotted track group I had to start at the back of the grid for the race, but got a decent start and peddled it round and bag myself a 1st in class (class C 140bhp per ton)
Also between us we bagged a 2nd in class for the car
Looking forward to the next round at Snetterton 300 in July, really need to get my own car done though.
