Next round is this coming weekend with Gordon at the wheel of the #07. In the meantime, here's a video of one of my two incidents on April 27th. The other wasn't really caught by the cameras so I probably wont upload it.
Tuesday, June 24, 2008
Thursday, June 12, 2008
Winners!
I know the part played by myself and Gordon was fairly minimal, but we're still on a high after Sunday's events and the fifth round of the Championship as part of the Scottish Speedfair event.
For various reasons I couldn't be at the track on Saturday when the first heat was run but the race was a dnf for Rory due to a perceived problem with the gearbox which thankfully turned out to not be the case. Plus for whatever reason the brake balance had been moved all the way back so he's lucky he didn't crash the thing before he realised.
On to Sunday and the second heat in which he started towards the back and stayed there for most of the race, unhappy with the pulling power of the car in a straight line where he just couldn't compete. Clearly something wasn't right so in the big gap between the two races while Knockhill sent endless parades and track demos out various things were tried. The engine was rebuilt between the last race and this one so something had obviously not gone to plan. Thankfully, as it would transpire a second or so a lap would be found by changing the oil.
So on to the final. Due to the fact the final is made up from the results of the previous two heats, Rory started a promising third as the only one of the quick drivers to have a really bad day. He managed to jump the two rookies starting ahead of him and proceeded to vanish into the distance while the quickest drivers had to fight quite hard to get to the front. Indeed, it took 8 of the 10 laps for that to happen, Carol Brown eventually appearing in second but unable to close the gap with Rory winning by a pretty decent margin!
There were joyous scenes in the paddock afterwards as Rory had his entire family on hand and it's fantastic that the group has achieved something, especially as Rory was our only realistic chance of a really good result - though we'd expected a possible podium or two, not a race victory!
For various reasons I couldn't be at the track on Saturday when the first heat was run but the race was a dnf for Rory due to a perceived problem with the gearbox which thankfully turned out to not be the case. Plus for whatever reason the brake balance had been moved all the way back so he's lucky he didn't crash the thing before he realised.
On to Sunday and the second heat in which he started towards the back and stayed there for most of the race, unhappy with the pulling power of the car in a straight line where he just couldn't compete. Clearly something wasn't right so in the big gap between the two races while Knockhill sent endless parades and track demos out various things were tried. The engine was rebuilt between the last race and this one so something had obviously not gone to plan. Thankfully, as it would transpire a second or so a lap would be found by changing the oil.
So on to the final. Due to the fact the final is made up from the results of the previous two heats, Rory started a promising third as the only one of the quick drivers to have a really bad day. He managed to jump the two rookies starting ahead of him and proceeded to vanish into the distance while the quickest drivers had to fight quite hard to get to the front. Indeed, it took 8 of the 10 laps for that to happen, Carol Brown eventually appearing in second but unable to close the gap with Rory winning by a pretty decent margin!
There were joyous scenes in the paddock afterwards as Rory had his entire family on hand and it's fantastic that the group has achieved something, especially as Rory was our only realistic chance of a really good result - though we'd expected a possible podium or two, not a race victory!
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