Brands Hatch AMOC Race Meeting 26th June 2010

AMOC Historic Championship Race 20 Min's Indy Circuit.

Very Sunny, Dry and Hot with a Breeze.

Qualifying:- 16th on Grid. Fastest Lap 65 sec

Race:- 12th on mixed grid with classics.

            2nd Overall.

            1st on Handy Cap

            Best lap time 64.3sec.

First ever race on this track which is quite technical. Kept very close to Anne Reed who won the race at one point nearly running into the back of her car. I felt the race could be would despite the much better straight line speed of Anne's car.

The chance to win went when I needed to let a leading DB4 light weight car through on blue flags and car 17 a V8 DBS came past at the same time so prevented me from challenging Anne and further.

The race was finally Red flagged as several cars fell off and ended in the gravel.

Podium?

Well done to Anne for a good win. I will keep trying and will send Anne lots of fatty foods.


AMOC 50s Team Race 20 Min's.

Qualifying:- 5th on grid. Best 64.4sec

Race:- 5th overall.

            1st on Handy Cap

            1st Team Overall       

           (Feltham Fliers) Doug Bark, David Reed and Glynn Allen. Well done to everyone.

            Best Lap 63.8sec.

Interview.

A very enjoyable race in which I spent most of it trying to get past a very quick Jaguar XK140. I got past once then made a mistake coming out of Graham Hill Bend, after which I had a few attempts to pass into Druids, but just could not get it quite right.

I finally finished just 0.5sec behind at the flag.

Overall I was happy with the lap time consistency which varied only a few 100th sec each lap through-out the race.

Thanks to DAVRON for the race support and sorting out the electrical problem, which occurred during the second qualifying session.