Brands Hatch - 12th August 2010

Another fairly eventful start to a sprint when I had to spend most of the evening before repairing the front wing to the point I could compete having hit a deer on the way home from the Brighton speed trials the day before.

Arrived at brands hatch slightly concerned that the organisers would be less than impressed with my taped up front wing, but luckily they were fine and the first obstacle was overcome. Having read the provisional entry list I was not expecting to do all that well as there was a Lotus elise and the modified S2000 of Matt Carter in my class.

As it happens Matt who I was sure would have beaten me around Brands Hatch had also managed to have an altercation with an animal in the form of a cow and wasn't able to compete, therefore leaving the competition wide open.

by the end of the sprint I finished 1st in class which was a very welcome result and not expected with a time of 98.96s which was a good improvement over the previous years event in the Integra type R and achieved my goal of a sub 100 second run.

Brighton Speed Trials - 11th August 2010

Not really the ideal event for the S2000 but the 1/4 mile run down Madeira Drive, Brighton is an event I've fancied having a go at for a while.

Due to license restrictions I was only able to run in the handicap class which meant just one practise and one timed run. Managed a 1/4 mile time of 15.48s which is about what I expected leaving me 30th out of 56 in the handicap class.

North Weald - 29th August 2010

The 29th August saw anther trip back to North Weald for the Sevenoaks motor club's sprint. Unlike the last attempt at this event I thankfully managed to have a less eventful journey to the venue, avoid the local wildlife.

Due to the poor surface and being a tight git I opted to run on the standard road tyres rather than the Toyo R888's which were likely to suffer from significant wear on the old concrete parts of the course.

The predicted rain managed to stay away until the beginning of the third timed run, but for some reason my times rather than improving where dropping off slightly over the 3 timed runs.

By the end of the second run I was looking good for 2nd in class behind the MX5 of Mark Robbins, however It wasn't to be as Ross Martin in the other S2000 managed to go quicker on his third timed run to push be into third in class by just .03 seconds. best time of the day was 80.56s