Phoenix Racing Brands Hatch Skoda

First of all, this was my best race here on R2P, a lot of fights and duels.

Qual:
Bad qual laps for me, I was in middle of traffic and could't find a way trough. After one lap I was in gravel and I was fighting like crazy cat to get back on track and after couple of minutes I succeeded.

Race: P9 on starting grid..hm, I was scared :()
After some slides and incidents I was behind Linton and Ollerenshaw on P4, they had great battle. Lucky for me Linton was out, couldn't saw what happend. Couple of laps I was behind Zak, btw great fight Zak and couldn't find a way trough.

Congratulations to Dan Bailey for another victory, and to others for great race.

Simple race for me, Pole then win ha, seems like you guys had fun behind :), congrats to Zak, who seems to be my main rival at R2P so far for second and to Vladimir, who is doing really well lately. And thanks to James and Sam on teamspeak keeping me amused

Got a good start, started making a pass on Alan when he ran wide out of T2 but down to T3 I think we rubbed and he got abit squiffy turning in before being tagged from behind and spun off, unlucky mate. From then on I ran at the head of a train for a while in about 9th-10th. Before I got squiffy and a couple of guys passed me. I then lost myself a very possible top-8 finish when trying an overtake. Lebed had slowed up Gomes and I got alongside, even infront slightly going into the back-of-track right-hander, I went a bit wide to give room and understeered the car onto the grass, would have saved it but for just a touch of the gravel and the car swung round and smacked the barrier. At this moment I decided the colour of the bonnet and bumpers was not making me look as attractive as usual so I shed them on the track, now everyone could see my Skoda's muscles!
Had a pleasant chase with Simon, before I made it past. Then at Sheene Curve I put a rear wheel on the grass, car snapped sideways as I entered the corner, I floored it and somehow managed to get the car facing the correct way and save it (see pic ->). 13ths an ok result I guess in the end as the race was fun and Im still learning these cars.

Sorry for being in the position I was Eduardo! :-( Really am.

Good race for me, had a great battle with Zak 2/3rds of the race until I lost it at Dingle Dell and collected Eduardo. Damaged car, carried on pushing regardless, managing to bring her home in 4th.

Thanks guys! :-)

Congrats to podium.

Wow what a race. Why do I always have to suffer so much from the back? To have more fun I guess...

I qualified 15th, quite poor position, but it got even worst when I forgot to shift G1 at green and lost 6 places before T1.

Then I almost saved it at the Wicks/Herring/Hegan little mess. Almost, just one or two inches and I could've kept my beloved Skoda bonnet. But I didn't, and in the process I lost 4 more places. Let me see where was I? Oh, yes, P25.

I thought I had nothing to do but play "follow the leader", and to my surprise my pace was good so I was climbing, climbing, climbing... until I had an epic fight in the last third of the race with Ivasic & Gomes. The most intense 10 minutes in quite a long time at R2P.

Thanks guys.

Im so sad right now... two consecutive DNFs on one of my favorite tracks... well still have a couple more races here so really hope to at least finish them.

No problem Linton, i know the good driver that you are, mistakes happen, everyone makes it. If i was careful i could avoid that but i thought you were going to be trapped in the sandbox and didn't slowed down not even a bit, unfortunately to me my engine died and had to abandon the race.

Congrats Dan, no one could match your pace and nice battle all drivers around top 5, very fun as long as it lasted.

This was my first time out in the Skodas and the event started off relatively well found a gap in qualifying and had some clear track and produced a time only 3 tenths off my PB - but was still only good enough for 21st.

The race also started off ok, got off the line well and passed a couple of cars before paddock hill, and was up to 17th by the end of the first half of lap 1. Then things started to go downhill, running two wide with michael into stirlings and ran out wide whilst allowing room...left a little too much space that i ran out of track and understeered into the gravel. Spent what seemed like an eternity getting out and dropped 40s to the field.

Tried to recover the lost time and had retrieved 10s to the next car but in the process of closing the chasm of time pushed a little two hard into paddock and ran wide on the exit hit the barrier and spent another age in the gravel trap.

By this time the vast majority of the field lapped me as i was inching the gravel. The car was damaged from the incident the steering was well off so i just had to limp it home and pick up and places from anyone who had succumbed to the gravel pit as well.

Managed to circulate at consistent pace and kept out of the way of the lead cars the came to lap me, but on the final lap whilst allowing some lead cars past at paddock i touched the grass on the entry to the corner and found myself back in the gravel crawled out again to complete what was a pretty dissapointing race.

Congrats to Dan for the win

I need to change some graphic settings in qualli so went from the server and couldn't get back even when there was just 28/30 people.

See you on next one.

An appalling race for me. Had done plenty of practice in these cars, and practice and qualifying tonight went well. But come the race, and the cars all around me, I seemed to lose all ability to drive.

Mark, our rub on the second lap was entirely my fault; I should have taken a tighter line. Later on in that lap I had a needless self-spin. One lap later I closed too quickly on Diego, got a little loose, and clipped him into a spin. I spun too, hit the barrier and received major damage. I would have taken a drive-through, but I couldn't move thanks to a missing front wheel. I totally deserved that. I'd just like to apologise to Diego for the spin. I'm glad to see you were able to continue.

Not a good start to the series. :(

Qualy went pretty badly. Couldn't get clear track and it didn't help that I ran the FBMW's the previous hour and still had the feel of that car in my brain. Result - 18th when I had pulled 1:39's last night in practice.

Oh well, got a good start but then in T3 I lost my front splitter and rear spoiler all at once. Spent next two laps learning to drive a completely different car while trying to hold position. Didn't work too well but I kept it on the track.

Figured out how to hold it without any downforce and about lap 10 the long battle with Guana began. This was some of the best fun I have had. I was at a major disadvantage without my rear wing and couldn't press the opportunities to pass but I got pretty close. Thanks for the fun Diego!!

Second 11th place finish today. We'll see how tonight's race goes.

Congrats to the podium.