Silverstone

Heading to Silverstone I was hoping for a dry weekend to really prove my pace again and finish the 2011 championship off on a high. Friday gave me confidence on slick tyres in the drying conditions but I wanted to make sure I left the car in one piece for the weekend so played quite safe but ended the second session 4th quickest.

Qualifying was the only session on Saturday for me and it was dry! I knew that I had a strong chance of being on the front row but to my dismay hitting traffic on my last lap left me just 5th on the grid but with a theoretical best time of a 3rd place start. Even though my start position wasn’t good I still had the pace that I could transform to the races and I was confident I could do a good job.

Race 1 was difficult as the track was damp and so I decided to put 2 slicks and 2 wet tyres on the car hoping that I would be able to at least hold my position but I found myself dropping back and although I had a good battle I finished in 11th place and made it extremely hard for myself to move up the championship. Race 2 however was dry and starting 11th I had a lot of work to do but I loved the track and knew it was a long race and a good result was on the cards. I made a good start off the line overtaking 2 cars and as I lined up another in the Maggots/Becketts complex the competitor I was side by side with slid, forcing me into a slide in which I ended up hitting the tyre wall and causing too much damage to continue with. I guess that’s racing for you!

I have had a great year and proved my pace in qualifying and I finished 8th overall in the championship out of 32 cars. The support from my sponsors Supagard, Awesome GTI, Geometric Manufacturing and Fadal CNC have been a key part to my success this year and I cannot thank them enough. I hope for 2012 I will be back out racing but now is the waiting game whilst I try and raise the money I need and it may well be a new challenge next year for me. Keep your eyes pealed for press releases in the next few weeks when all may be revealed.

Until next time x