24/08/2026
Bit of a frustrating race weekend overall.
We came into the weekend hoping to leave somewhere around the top 5 in the championship. After this one, I think we’ll be lucky to still be inside the top 10 😬
Qualifying was cut short by a red flag, The lap I did get in, I was completely on my own with no draft. At The Bend, that can be worth up to 0.7 seconds, which hurts when just 1.7 seconds separated 1st to 17th.
Race 1: I sucked.
Threw it off the road a few times, got frustrated, and kept making silly mistakes.
Then, just to finish things off, the gearbox threw a cog on the cooldown lap. Sounded like a gr***de going off. And the car came back on a flatbed.
Race 2: the car sucked.
I’d given my spare gearbox to another competitor who needed it, so we ended up playing gearbox musical chairs. Unfortunately, the one we ended up with was a dud. Every gear change was a fight, accompanied by some truly horrible grinding noises.
The car also threw a sensor fault and started pulling ignition timing, which meant we were basically a snail on the straights.
The pace was there, but it’s pretty hard to make a move when the car you’re pushing out of the final corner has pulled three car lengths on you by the end of the straight.
Race 3: it finally came together.
Third gearbox of the weekend went in, we made some moves, avoided the carnage and finally got to show a bit of pace. Unfortunately, we just ran out of laps to get ourselves out of the midfield.
Definitely a weekend to forget, but at least we ended it on a high.
There’s no drop round this year either, so the championship points haul is looking a little grim.
Oh wellllll. Onto the next one 🏁
