Saturday, 19 March 2011

With more help from my New Best Friends, Geoff and Grant, we got the car back together and running, it's not perfect as the replacement metering unit is set up for a car with a wilder camshaft than I'm running, but at least it's over fuelling the motor not leaving it lean - which can be expensive!

So I got two races and finished both, we're down on power and having to use a max of 5000rpm for safety, but we got to race. Finished both, took a few cars in the first, (although I have to say the back of the grid has turned out to be a bit faster than I'd anticipated! Starting on the back in my usual races in UK I'd expect to take 6-8 on the first lap alone, but not here!) Second race I was moved up the grid a bit and had some interesting dicing particularly with an Aston DB4 and Porsche 914. The Aston came by on the straight, but looked pretty wild, so I backed off expecting to watch him spin out, but it took longer than I expected, and when he did gyrate at Lukey Heights half a lap later he ended up in the tyre wall... After some close quarters stuff with the Porsche I managed to get back by and held him off, but I expect more of the same tomorrow. Shame we can't the car on full song here so I could play with some faster guys, but it's fine, I'm out there racing, and it really is a great track.

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