26/10/2026
So the Birkett relay on Saturday was the most challenging driving and racing I have ever done. The wind and rain was relentless all afternoon, didn’t help myself as the tyres I had I would class as intermediates whereas you definitely needed full wets to get anywhere.
Qualifying was mid morning and managed to qualify 14th out of 65 in the damp conditions. I started the race for our team and lined up on the grid next to none other than 4 time touring car champion Colin Turkington (so I must be pretty quick😆), unfortunately the track was a lot wetter now and with the unsuitable tyres I was fighting a losing battle.
Over the next 6 hours we carried on through the rain, losing 2 out of our team due to retirements and at the end ended up 52nd out of 65.
Quick video below of one lap just to show challenging the conditions were, later in the afternoon it was much worse than this😬😬
