Unfortunately the TTRS and PBMW races take place on the same day at Oulton Park due to the circuits restrictions on Sunday events. This means that in order to run it both series you'd have very little time between races to let the car cool down or fix and issues / damage.
Deciding the risk of missing a race wasn't worth it I onky entered the PBMW race for this weekend.
Having tested on the Friday I already knew my lap times were a huge improvement over the last dry event we had at Oulton Park, best laps were in the region of 2:08.5.
Unforunstely after the first flying lap of qualifying the session was red flagged, really annoyingly this was caused by a competitor in another series being allowed out to complete 3 laps in order to be allowed to race in his own race. So to have red flagged our session by crashing when his lap times would ahve counted fror nothing was rediculous (rant 1 over)
Anyway back out for a few laps to try and set a decent time and ended up behind a slower car, not a problems as the marshalls were waving the blue flags so surely I'll get through, Nope blue flags completely egnored for the remaining 2 laps of qualifying. ended up with my best lap being good enough for 9th on the grid, looking at the results my times from the test day before would have been good enough for 6th.
Race 1 and the entire grid got a way cleanly, by the time I turned into turn 2 I was up to eighth having over taken Owen Darch, unfortunately Rob Cooper ran wide at the exit of cascades and Harry Goodman did the same on the exit of Island bend meaning by the end of lap 1 I was runing in a much more respectable 6th place. The rest of the race was fairly quiet early on I was holding onto the back of the fight between Mark Palmer and David Grave whist pulling a cumfortable gap back to Edd Giddings. However as the tyres started to go off the concentrateion was soon diverted to keeping Edd behind as Mark and Dave managed to pull a bit of a gap. Finished the race in 6th place.
Race 2 saw another good start managing to pass David Graves and head off in 5th position. Unfortunately the pace wasn't there to keep the ever fast Harry Goodman from coming past after he started 9th, recovering from his race 1 spin so after a few laps I dropped back down to 6th. Had another great and very fair race with Dave Graves but quite annoyingly on the last lap I loked up whilst braking for shell and he got the better run out of the corner to snatch 6th.
Over all a reasonable result which along with earning my marshalling ponts see's me promoted to 2nd in the championship behind matt Swaffer.
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