Bathurst Skoda

Lotta fun. Gotta throw a "sry dude" out at Taris H. for the punt at the end of the bk strt. We were in about a 4car pile headed for the left hander and I was usighted as hell.
Missed braking and hit Taris. Later on we wound up together again and had a great battle till the end. ;-)

Was very Boring when Dozier hit me. We were a row of six car really. But we meet again and we had a great battle for several laps ... Very Fun

Prerace:

This is one of those circuits that is very fun and challenging to drive. It took me more laps to get used of the car banging off the rev limiter halfway down the back straight than it did anything else.

Qualifying:

I made the mistake of exiting out of the server to lower my graphics settings as I was getting a bit of lag and I wasn't sure what was causing it. I went to get back in and couldn't remember the password and I guess it disappears from your dashboard at the beginning of the event. I ended up getting back in right before the end of warm-up.

Race:

I knew I had good pace and the race was going to be a fun battle even if getting close to the podium was going to be a big ask. After making a bunch of good moves and making my way up to P10 in the first few laps, I decided to miss my braking marker coming down the hill for the last 90° left turn before the start finish line. I was using the poles on the right-hand side of the track and broke one pole too late which turned out to be a race ending mistake.

Definitely was a disappointing event. It's not often I put the car in the wall on my own. Today wasn't the best day... I'll be looked to have better luck next time out!I did it on a wrote my report

Putting it mildly, a very entertaining evening of racing. Despite all my practice I just couldn't match the pace of the front runners or the pace set in the afternoon race. Q'ing 7th was acceptable I suppose, with PB in the high 33's.

We got thru T1 okay and I focused on settling in and letting the race develope. It became clear that I could not catch the guys directly in front. I was hangin' in there but could not close the gap. Then, a few laps in I noticed Mark had a moment down in the "chase" and I got by as he regained the track. Hmmmmm, here we go again, I thought grinning to myself. And so began yet another epic fight for position recalling memories of the last time we met on this track, what, two years ago Mark? In the E90's? Wow, what a run! This, gentleman, is why I, for one, am here. Races like this. Thank you Mark, you made my day.

Congrats to the podium and kudos to teammates Michael Herring on also moving up two spots and Jim Eagan for hangin' in there despite puncture troubles, good job guys! See you all next round, till then....

I was worried going into this one. Never ran Bathurst before and in practice I had never broken 1:36s in race trim.

Got off to a pretty bad start. Qualied 9th with a 1:36 even and spent the first couple of laps losing spots. Got into a good rhythm though and proceeding to start moving back up mostly though exploiting others mistakes.

I found myself in 8th at the halfway mark with Abreu with a 10 second lead. Slowly began to reel him and was making up about a second a lap mostly in the downhill section coming to the dipper.

With about 3 laps to go I had him down to less than a second and began to apply pressure hoping for a mistake but he held in there pretty well. On the last lap I was able to pull alongside coming down the back straight and forced him to take a slower line through the next-to-last corner.

This allow me to pull into seventh. Lucas attempted to counter on the last turn but dove in a little too late and went wide into the grass on the last turn solidifying my seventh place finish.

Great battles all through the race. Congrats to the podium.