Snetterton - 12th July 2015 - PBMW Rounds 5 & 6

Rather unfortunately after a glorious sunny day on Saturday there had been a fair about of rain through the night and the PBMW qualifying started on a wet and slippery circuit. Finished the 15 minute qualifying session in a respectable 12th position out of 33, better than I often ran in the wet.

Race 1 started well, the weather had dried up and I got a great start. I was up to approximately 8th position when turning into turn 1, a slight miss judgement on my part saw me cut across Matt Wileman but wasn't far enough in front, tiny tap sent me off the circuit.

Luckily I managed to rejoin, and had a great run through the field to finish 16th, not the result I was after but was a lot of fun. Looking at the TSL timings my fastest lap time of 2:27.268 was up there with a number of the top 10 finishing cars.

Having made strong progress I was looking forward to the second race of the weekend, until the heavy rain began to fall about an hour before we were due to head out. Again I got a reasonable start but struggled with visibility and fell back to 17th, most of the race was spent desperately trying to keep the car on the circuit. had a fun clean race with Steve Turtill I did feel I could have gone slightly quicker but despite managing to get along side a couple of times could quite get passed.

Snetterton - 11th July 2015 - TTRS Rounds 7 & 8

Having missed the two Toyo Tires Racing Saloons rounds at Zandvoort it was starting to feel like a very long break from racing. Rounds 7 and 8 were increased in lengths to 20 minutes for race 1 and 30 minutes for race to with each race having a compulsory pit stop. With this being the case I decided to share the car with a friend who'd just got his race license.

With both of us having to compete at least 3 laps to qualify the 15 minute session was pretty busy meaning I had 1 out lap, 1 timed and 1 in lap. Ended up qualifying …., fairly decent start but couldn't catch the cars in front on the used tyres we'd decided to run on. Handing over after 4 laps and James headed out for his first ever competitive laps. For his first race he did a great job of defending from Callum Noble who at times managed to get along side and eventually pull a gap of 1.6 seconds to leave us in 17th overall

Race 2 was much the same with us finishing 15th overall after a couple of retirements further up the field. best time of 2:28.777 was a little way off the best times of last year but with limited running on old tires I was optimistic that the times would come down a bit in the PBMW races on the following day.