Bathurst Skoda

Couldn't practice as much as I wanted because we had guests over. In fact I shouldn't even have raced but couldn't resist going for what seemed a large grid with my new rig (much more capable of handling it).

Qualy went sort of ok, after I had to log off and log back on because one of the pit garages was bugged and wouldn't let me out (by the way, otherwise track seemed awesome). I thought that could made me lose my temper but no, I went there and did the laps I knew how to do. It was worth a 5th, which with fast names on the grid I thought was quite ok.

Start didn't go so bad but into T1 I got a door closed which (out of my own inexperience) I hadn't anticipated so had to go for brakes exactly where I should already be going for gas. Since a long straight follows I fell quite a bit back from the front group already but could keep a "safe" distance to the trailing guys.

Couple of laps later I made contact with the front group, was driving ok and car was feeling nice. Unfortunately didn't take long for me to get punted (yet again) and lose a few positions and the well-handling car. Since I didn't hear an apology yet I reckon it was probably my fault for breaking to make the turn...

With the car not handling as well anymore I had a really hard time battling for positions, probably my hardest thus far at R2P; the good part of it is that it yielded very nice and tough dices with Tom Novy and Mark Carty. Some great clean racing from them, I hope I was up to par and didn't do anything too wrong. By clean I don't mean there were no rubbing and scrubbing, but at all times I could tell they cared about not sending me into a wall. Unfortunately not all seem to care like that but it's great to see some do: It was really a pleasure sharing the track with you two today.