Back to Cadwell Park!
Short and sweet round up right now, but if you want a more in depth look at the weekends events I'll put up a race report, if its asked for. Played a few tricks in quali and generally came to win this weekend etc.
Qualified on pole without too much trouble, although with the returning Steve Sawley in his EK certainly gave me a run and was only 0.25 seconds behind. The overall times weren't the fastest, no idea why, the circuit was just slow for everyone.
I qualified on last years tyres, I don't like wearing out this years tyres in non direct competition, and its also a great mind fuck when you're on virtually bald rubber and everyone else is slapping on sticker fresh tyres. So I kept them on for race 1 as I knew there was still about half a second in the lap, which is pretty much what we found FL wise.
Starts are critical at Cadwell, its so narrow and easy to block without excessively blocking, that if you loose your position, its a hard job to make it up again. So naturally thats what I did and dropped to 2nd off the line. All credit to Steve does great starts and nailed me. He's also moved to 17" wheels and bigger rubber this years, along with supporting changes and its certainly done the trick, picking up 1.2 seconds from his PB last year. So the competition was right there!
The pugs not so much, not on their home ground and a lack of circuit knowledge didn't help their pace. Cadwell is a handling circuit and you dont get much of a chance to lay the ponies down, so the fastest pug was about 0.8 off the pace.
I was worried that I wasn't going to be able to pass Steve as he did a great job defending last year and I had a bigger pace gap on him, but I managed to pull of the move I wanted to last year by slightly altering the sequence of corners a tiny bit and making the move quick so he couldn't learn the move before I did it.
It was a squeeze, but Cadwell is always tight, and if you're going to make a move or defend, you have to be ready for a bit of rubbing, otherwise its kind of processional......so we got our elbows out!
I need those points!
I didn't realise it until end of this race, but I'm actually 2nd overall in the championship behind David Drinkwater. Its very hard for a Class A car to win overall due to number of entries docking points sometimes and there is usually someone in a lower class who's dominating. I dropped a few points this round, I don't expect to be able to take overall, but its a nice target!
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5 авг 2019
