The First Round.

Just a quick note about the weekend with a full report to follow: it was a weekend not without incident (four of them to be honest) and on two separate occasions the car came back from the races needing repairs but the results weren't too bad. The first two races could have had Rory and the #07 on the podium but he had to settle for 5th and 12th and a potentially huge crash at the end of the pit-straight could have had dire consequences in the third race but we possibly were a little lucky despite not making the finish.

Full details to follow.

Various pre-season things.

So, just to finish the below post off completely, I'm driving at the 2nd, 4th and 7th rounds this year. That's the British GT Championship support round over the weekend of the 12th and 13th of April, the afternoon round at the double-header meeting on 27th April and the August 3rd round. All are at Knockhill of course. The reason for the first two being so close together is that Rory kindly swapped the British GT round for one of my standard events as he'd drawn both of the "Big" races.

To get a little more seat time, I'm going to try to make it down to the track for the test days before Gordon's rounds as he's only doing the race events this year. I've had a frankly rubbish 2008 so far so I can't wait to get back to Knockhill in the Spring and get the motorsport under way again!

I wrote a report for SCR covering my first year in racing and so forth, can be seen here.

And finally - a video of my brief stab at glory in the final race of 2007! - video

"I love it when a plan comes together."

Got down to the "official" Legends test day to see the car for '08. Myself and Gordon could only show up at the end of the day due to work but Rory was out on track in the car and set some pretty good times whilst bedding in the rebuilt engine. It's had a bit of a lick of paint to signify the "Class of '07" idea as you can see in the pic below. We've worked out who's racing when as well, I'll cover that shortly but I'm pleased to report I managed to get the support round on the British GT Championship bill in April which should be cool.

First round is on March 30th where Rory will be at the wheel with myself and Gordon in our "support" role. We're all showing up the day before to learn the basic stuff we need to learn to keep the car ticking over on racedays.