Very very last minute.com but went to Mallory on Sunday to take part in the Track Attack race series.
http://www.trackatta...season-list.php
As I was an invitation car they put me in the Deutsche class. This meant I had 15 minutes qualifying with 30 cars from 3 different series. A 15 minute race with the 17 Deutsche and Nippon challenge cars then a 20 minute race with all 3 series. The other series is the Tricolore one so full of Clios and a couple of others.
Pretty sure I was one of the lowest powered car out there but in the usual .org fashion I stiffened up the suspension and cracked on.
Never been anywhere near Mallory so watched a video of an Elise doing 2 laps and I was good to go 😂
Very small track to have 30 cars on so it was a little busy but headed out and managed to put the car 11th with a laptime of 56.297
In the first race without the French cars that put me 6th on the grid with the pole guy in a 760kg Nova with 240 bhp. It was a decent race (I don't remember much of it after the second race, coming to that 😂)
And managed to finish 5th.
Did my fastest lap of the day of 54.984
The second race I was back starting in 11th, 1 word, carnage!
Not a bad start but got shuffled back a few places by not being too agressive (wanted to get round turn 1 in one piece) and a few cars were out of place from a poor quali.
I got involved with about 5 clios, it's made me realise I need a rear camera too as they were all around me lap after lap. They were playing bumper cars for the whole race, especially into the hairpin. Bumpers and mirrors flying everywhere, somehow I avoided touching a single thing!!
Someone's bumper was left on the start finish straight so the SC came out. I made the novice error of focusing on my race and missed the marshals post, guessing the guy infront did too as I was stuck to his bumper flat out. He hit the brakes and I darted left to go round and there was the yellow and SC board staring at me. Waved an apology to the marshal and let the guy back past.
At the green flag it was all go again. An MX5 went straight on at the end of the main straight into the tyres but it was out the way and then my mate in the Navy's 206 spat his coolant all the way from the final turn to part way round turn 1 (he realised when he went straight on there himself) I entered the final corner at about 80mph completely sideways (why does it never look as much on the camera!) And then the clio I was following was all over the place at turn 1. As I wasnt actually racing to win anything the lead 2 cars came through then and I backed off to about 80% as there was less than 2 laps and coolant all over!
Started 11th, finished 11th. If the coolant hadn't come out I think I'd have got another place, it seemed the clios tyres were going off as I was catching them easily.
Highlight (apart from having no damage) was going round the outside of 2 cars around turn 1 at 90+
Also got interviewed by classic car magazine so I think they are doing a small feature.
Results from the races here
http://www.tsl-timing.com/event/163832
I have the videos from quali and both races but uploading race 2 first so that will be available in about 30 mins.
