Symmons Plains 100k

Nice battle for the driver championship going into the last race.

Not bad but could be better.

Qual'd fine, didn't drive this track before so I was satisfied .

Got a pretty tight start, very close to Rory but nothing happened luckily. Janko soon spun, probably because we both had too low brake ducts. I was having problems after 10 laps too so I was on the endge when braking... Heinz soon took me. Tires were wearing off quick and Mark came by soon. At the hairpin exit I took a little wide and him him... Sry for that man, I just suck at that turn :( After that I just had to pull to the end...

Grats Rory and nice battleing Heinz!

Was a decent qualifying effort after finding space to get a fast run in.

I couldnt see the lights on the grid, so just everyone else starting as my ticket to put my foor down.
I was a little distraced by mark spinning his tyres on the grid, I don't know if this is allowed, I was also expecting him to get a drive through for moving on the grid..

Start was ok, got passed Mark, and got tucked in behind Joco, on lap 3 i got braking wrong and slid into joco, but took none of us out luckily, was a close call .. Few laps later Janko was off, and I got a nice run down the back straight and took Joco for 2nd. Nice racing Joco

Managed to maintain the position, but fell well short of Rory. Well done

See yall for the final race, shoould be a real cracker for championship title

Couldn't match my pace from S5 here and only managed 6th on the grid but a slow start from Mark let me past and it was very tight into turn 2 with my team mate Heinz. I couldn't keep up with Heinz and Joco but was fairly comfortable in 5th until I had to lap someone. I'd seen him fighting with all the cars that were lapping him so I was cautious but he still managed to push me off, I only just managed to stop my car before it piled into the wall, and I lost a position to Mark. Meanwhile, Janko had had problems and was almost at the back so it was a good chance to close right up on him in the series if I could keep it together. No more drama until Mark caught Joco and they started to battle for 3rd, Mark eventually having an off and allowing me to close on him. I tried to outbrake him on the final left handers hoping he'd be nervous after his off but he was solid and I left it a bit late and got too close and tapped his rear quarter. He slid to a stop right in front of me and I waited, luckily there was a good gap behind. Sorry about that Mark.
So I got 5th and moved up to equal points with Janko in the series with one race remaining, another one like that next round please Janko! ;-)
Grats to podium, great performance Heinz and very nice win Rory.

THE HORROR... didnt expect this to be so crappy lol...

Qual went OK, but in race...
I only had problems, sry to everyone i hit :( My brakes were just not there,... i spinned 5 times, got stuck on hairpin, and went onto grass into tires in last corner quite a few times :(. Realy bad race for me!

Hope for better one next round ;)

Grats Rory on the win.
Last round will be exciting Darren :) Hope for a good fight :)

Well, that was a blast! I don't know about up front, but about 10th to 15th were in battle almost all race long.

Got a decent start. Went through the first turns 2-by-2 and still missed that tangle up ahead, picking up a few spots, though at the end of the first lap got pushed off the track and lost a few of my newly "gifted" positions.

From there it was lap after lap flitting between 11th and 13th, with the car ahead and car behind never more than a few tenths off. Awesome fun! Thought I might've abused my front tires a little more than I should have in that first half, wanting to stay in the battle and not give up anything ... Wasn't sure how far the tire wear would get me, but I think I had some laps left in 'em at the end.

Was an almost flawless race for me up till about lap 38: Johnny Gutierrez was having some difficulty in that couple of turns leading onto the S/F straight and I made a run on him ... As we went into the Turn 1 kink it became apparent there wasn't room being left for two cars and I tried to back out, but Gutierrez got turned around when he came down to my fender at the apex. Please accept my apology.

I hadn't run a Touring Car race since March and had forgotten how good the racing is ... I might try to make a few more of these.

Where to start in this one? Qualy went ok for me, didn't match my online PB, but felt ok being in the top 5. On the start line i did try to warm up my rear tires, I have never read anywhere that this was not okay? I am going to email Tim about it.

The start was interesting, i too couldn't see the lights. So i just tryed to go when everyone else did, well that cost me two spots before T1. Someone did a dive bomb move going into T2 (as you can see in Heinz pic). The dude totally cut the corner, but then he spun himself coming out, so i had a good LOL :-).

My battle with Darren was great, right up until he got pushed wide by a lapper, which i took full advantange of. That really sucked becuase i wanted a fair fight with ya! :-) Then our second incounter was a good one too, like Darren said, Joco had me a little flustered as i tred to pass him clean about 4 times, but he kept closing the door on me. So after i got done playing Tony Hawk on the 1/4 pipe, Darren got a great run on me going up the hill. I seen him duck into the inside but pulled off a great brake job and we got tangled up. First class move waiting for me like that Darren, i'm sure like myself, that is not the way you wanna pass someone. :-) With about 4 laps to go i got the old tires worn from the pits. But i couldn't take it easy with Darren behind me.. :-)

Contrats to the podium, except Joco :-p

-m :-)

one thing no one can say is this race was lonely :) lots of passing for sure. it was fun racing on this track.

congrats on the win Rory!!!

This race was an unmittigated disaster for me!

Qualifying was disrupted by some impatient bugger driving into my ass whilst I was trying to let him through... can't remember who that was but well done to him!

The race itself started rubbish when I couldn't see the lights off of the start, despite that though I seemed to get a better start than the guys around me so I guess it wasn't as bad as it could have been.

On the second lap I managed an overtake into T1 (although I think I squeezed whoever it was a bit so I apologise) Kharma would seem to have intervened though when I inexplicably went off round the easiest bend on the track on the back stretch... let loads of cars through and due to a cautious re-entry lost a few more.

At the back now and the race changes from trying to make up positions from my poor qualifying to trying not to fall too far away. It turned out to be a misplaced worry as I was broadsided by Boreyko comming back on track carelessly. That's the second of his incidents this week that I've seen and unfortunately, this one ended my race in a complete right front suspension failure.

Must Try Harder.