Last night was very enjoyable. I managed to scrape ahead of Bob in the points by 1 point and get a third place on the night. I made some mistakes in the road races that lost me places and points but I doubt I'd have finished higher than 3rd on the night anyway so I'm happy. Surprisingly the Mazda got me a better finish than the Ford, it loves the high speed stuff.
I had only done a couple of laps at Daytona oval in it just to confirm it was about half a second a lap better then the Ford so had no idea it would be so hard on it's tyres. I was sh%*ting bricks for the last four laps as the right rear was down to 7 and I was hanging onto long oversteering slides for most of the way around the two corners. I was trembling with adrenaline and my arms were numb from holding the myriad little slides at about 340 KPH. Over the last couple of laps I was down to about 320- 330 in the corners and looking back to see if anyone was gaining. A very satisfying finish as I had nothing in the car to catch the Aston.
Last edited: Jun 30, 2016