Annoyingly had issues with the tail lift on the truck on Friday night but luckily the car was already out so we put those worries to one side and set about qualifying for rounds 9 and 10 of the Toyo Tires Racing Saloons, having not run at brands hatch for a while I approached the first session a little too cautiously and ended up qualifying 38th of 47 and 14th out of 21 in class which was a reasonable result. The time of 1:59.102 was also faster than I'd been on my only previous visit to Brands GP although some way off where I wanted to me, looking at last years times I was hoping to lap around 1:53.000 to 1:55.000
Had a great start to race and by the end of the first lap I had moved from 38th to 28th including a brief time in front of one the M3's (until the first chance he could use the 150bhp advantage on a straight) unfortunately dropped a few places as the quicker cars got passed but it would appear front runners were retiring at the same rate so ended up finishing 28th overall and 7th in class with my best lap time falling to a much more respectable 1:55.036.
Race 2 didn't really go as well, got another good start, was gaining on and starting to pass the two cars in front when bother moved across slightly leaving me nowhere to go, this resulted a a little contact and me somewhat loosing concentration for the lap. Think I ended up in last place by the end of the first lap before regaining concentration and picking the pace back up. Had a great battle with Kevin Hodgin and Declan Russell for the rest of the race, although shortly after passing both I managed to spin at Dingle Dell and had to do it all over again before the end of the 15 minute race. By the time the chequered flag was in sight I'd only moved up to 31st although on a more positive note my fastest time had fallen to 1:54.978.
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