PLMS: Northamptonshire

Congrats finishers and winners.

I got disconnected after 5 laps!!!! Dissapointing but better sooner rather than later.

Bah!! see you next time.

Great Race. Must say clean group of gents.

Not a flawless race but I am happy with the win.

Car felt really good after trying something new with the setup. Actually for me, the concept wasn't all that new since I have used it before a couple seasons ago with using no anti roll bar but on these cars, it felt a lot different.

Qual was pretty good. Got a 1.50.6 which was 2 hundredths of a second faster than TC...and good enough for the track record :).

To sum it up...the race was quite boring and I led it from start to finish. For the most part, I had no problems and I kept a good pace but I did get a drive thru penalty on my first stop for speeding. I knew exactly where the line was but I forgot what the actual speed in the pits was. I went in rather calmly but at 40 mph...the speed limit was at 36 so I knew immediately I would get a penalty :(. My lead over TC dropped from roughly 30 seconds to about 8 because of it. No issues, though, I made it up over time with my pace and another pit stop. Late in the race, I did have an issue when trying to pass a lapped car and blew the whole corner all together...finally going into the gravel. No fault to the lapped car, just couldn't see my brake marker :P.

Finished the race with no problems after that with a comfortable lead. Despite the race being very boring, the combo of these cars and this track was actually quite fun...and I normally hate Silverstone :). Everyone was clean so all in all...it was a good race :).

Attendance was ridiculous though...

This win is for my team
They've done a fantastic job and I'm really just so thankful to them because it wouldn't be possible without them.
And the guys here, they are a great bunch of guys. They've done a fantastic job on strategy, setting up the car.
So really, it's a perfect team and I'm really happy I could put the icing on the cake.

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( Not much to say (as usual) so stole some comments from Hamilton )
:D

Still find hard to belive people don't race much this cars.... Pure fun

Holy shit! 4th! I made about 5 stops...I'd see I needed more fuel, try and figure out on the fly just how much I'd need to get to the end.....I ended up having to do that 3 times LOL. It's a miracle I can get thru life at all..

Dont know why, but that seemed harder work than usual, I was absolutlety drained at the end. I forgot about the tyre parc ferme issue and loaded up with softs to quali, totally ruined my race, idiot! Race was usual good clean stuff, shame people have decided not to run this one anymore, 13 people showed of which 2 were new faces! Good win Nuno and Connor, where Nuno gets that pace from god only knows, in practise he was 2 secs faster than the rest of us and smashed the existing 1:43 record by over a second, fortunately I have enough points in the bag at the moment but man your times are depressing...lol

That was a lot of fun :) I say that now, after the race my comment was "ooof". Other after race comments were "knackered, and numb". Its a tough guy series and it helps to watch some re-runs of "Ice Road Trucker" (History Channel) or "Deadliest Catch" before hand.

Good race all-in-all. I played my normal roll as caboose at the back of the train and let attrition and others bad luck play in my favor. I was working on catching Greg but then something happened to him. After that I just tried to not get lapped to much.

Yes, these are long races but I think well worth it. Its part racing, part toughing it out. I hope we get a few more people because I don't want to see the duration of the races shortened as was suggested at the begining of this race.

Gratz to the winners and a big Thanks to the Stewards and R2P.