Brands Hatch Indy - 17th May 2015 - PBMW rounds 3 & 4

After a reasonable day in the TTRS races on saturday I went onto a busy indy circuit to qualify for the production BMW's, With a total of 36 cars on track finding space was always going to be key to a decent qualifying lap.

Finished qualifying very please to have finally managed a sub 1 minute lap of brands hatch in a PBMW, actually broke it 4 times in the 15 minute qualifying session. My best time of 59.530 was good enough to qualify 12th, was hoping to for a top 10 but content with 12th, especially as 10th was only a 10th of a second faster.

Race 1

Had a good start and during the first lap managed to get up to 11th but struggled a little with wheel spin and slipped a couple of place back, had a few good battles during the first 1/2 of the race with the 2nd half being dominated by the task of desperately trying to keep Ian Russell behind which I just about managed with us finishing 12th and 13th separated by just 0.437s

Got a fantastic start to race 2, started behind the always fast starting Mark Palmer and for once he didn't pull away like I was standing still. Exited paddock hill for the first time in 9th place, unfortunately lost a couple of places through out the race, mainly seamed to be due to horrendous wheel spin at clark curve causing issues down the main straight, most apparent when Matt Wileman manage to hit the back of the car under acceleration out of Clark corner while I was unable to get grip. Maybe the R888's down't last quite as long as I hoped. The second half of the race was yet again a case of desperately trying to keep Ian Russell behind me and retain 11th place, which I managed by just 0.214 seconds.

Brands Hatch Indy - 16th May 2015 - TTRS rounds 3 & 4

As with most rounds of 2014 I opted to enter the Toyo Tires Racing Saloons races on the saturday to use as test sessions for the following days Production BMW races. 

Arrived in a very positive mood after a couple of good results at Silverstone, 5 PBMW cars had entered class F of the TTRS races, I had expected Gary Feakins to be the pace setter in class F which proved to be the case with myself qualifying 3rd in class behind Matt Swaffer, reasonably happy with this result although would have been a lot happier had I managed to do a sub 1 minute lap, ended up with a qualifying time of 1:00.125. 

Race 1 proved to be fairly quiet but very useful in terms of track time, Ha d good battle with Jason Deniz in the MI16 205 at the start of the race and managed to finish in front of the class E E36 323 of Richard Ibrahim. 

Matt Swaffer had opted not to run in the races and Gary starting from the pit lane had pace I just couldn't keep with, ended up finishing 2nd in class and still not quite braking the 1 minute lap with a best time of 1:00.259. 

Race 2 saw just the 3 PBMW cars as Gary had chosen not to enter the 2nd race, I ended up having a good battle with the class E, BMW E36 323 of Richard Ibrahim in the first part of the race, ended up finishing first in class and got the pleasure of experiencing the podium at Brands Hatch