The weather was good and I went out trying to chase down Dave Graves, at the end of lap 7 I glanced across at the lap time to see 1:28.760 followed by 1:28.770 on the next lap. I assumed the lap timer was broken and even when hearing the positions come across the tannoy as I pulled in to parc ferme I didn't believe that I actually qualified 6th, I think my pervious best qualifying was late teens.
Lining up next to Harry Goodman on the 3rd row of the grid was a welcome change from some of the starting positions of last year. Managed a pretty good start but not quick enough to keep the fast starting Dave Graves behind me heading into the first corner.
Had a great battle with James Foard, Jack Gabriel and Tom Ibrahim and ended up finishing 9th, slightly disappointed to dropped back but still very happy to have achieved my first ever top ten finish and improved my best lap time to 1:28.689
By the time race 2 started the rain had begun to fall again, Starting 9th and opting for a sensible approach to the race in order to keep the car in one piece I initially dropped back but made up a place or 2 as people spun in the tricky conditions, a brief safety car period after an accident at the Craner Curves bunched everyone up but shortly after the restart the red flags were out due to a second accident at Red Gate.
Ended up finishing 11th which was again a great result and left Donington extremely happy. Looking forward to my first ever visit to Rockingham for rounds 3 and 4
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