clockwoRk
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A bit late with this sorry but here are onboards from the two races at Pembrey and a selection of pics from those my brother took when he came down to watch qualy and race 1.
Race 1
VTEC Challenge 2012 Pembrey Race #1 - YouTube
Not my finest bit of driving. Through butterflies, noise and cold had barely any sleep the night before in the back of R-Motion's lorry so just felt like a worn out jangled bag of nerves before starting qualifying and even worse before the race.
I qualified 8th of 10 on the grid with a 1:10.8 at the back of a group of 6 cars all covered within a second.
Got away very well and managed to pass 4 cars into the first corner. Unfortunately my pace wasn't quite there and I managed to lose quite a bit of my composure and speed from qualy so I ended up moving back down the order essentially to where I started but with comfortable gap over the over the cars behind. Thanks to a couple of retirements my finishing postition was 6th.
Race 2
VTEC Challenge 2012 - Pembrey Race #2 - YouTube
A better night's sleep and a lot more settled in my driving this time. Started 6th and got away well again but this time had nowhere to go to take advantage. A little uneventful - was keeping in touch with the pack ahead of me but never really in danger of catching them. Started to get fuel starvation with coming out of the slower corners with about 5min to go so eased off quite a bit to ensure I made the finish.
Again, thanks to a few others' misfortune brought it home in 5th with a respectable best lap of 1:10.2.
And a little selection of pics....
Race 1
VTEC Challenge 2012 Pembrey Race #1 - YouTube
Not my finest bit of driving. Through butterflies, noise and cold had barely any sleep the night before in the back of R-Motion's lorry so just felt like a worn out jangled bag of nerves before starting qualifying and even worse before the race.
I qualified 8th of 10 on the grid with a 1:10.8 at the back of a group of 6 cars all covered within a second.
Got away very well and managed to pass 4 cars into the first corner. Unfortunately my pace wasn't quite there and I managed to lose quite a bit of my composure and speed from qualy so I ended up moving back down the order essentially to where I started but with comfortable gap over the over the cars behind. Thanks to a couple of retirements my finishing postition was 6th.
Race 2
VTEC Challenge 2012 - Pembrey Race #2 - YouTube
A better night's sleep and a lot more settled in my driving this time. Started 6th and got away well again but this time had nowhere to go to take advantage. A little uneventful - was keeping in touch with the pack ahead of me but never really in danger of catching them. Started to get fuel starvation with coming out of the slower corners with about 5min to go so eased off quite a bit to ensure I made the finish.
Again, thanks to a few others' misfortune brought it home in 5th with a respectable best lap of 1:10.2.
And a little selection of pics....
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