TEAM PANTS RACING
Well after a busy week me and all the team managed to get the car ready for press day today hoping we had sorted some of the problems out we have been having this year.
We arrived with the freshly painted car but no sign writting and the car still seemed loose coming off the turn, but as we kept trying things the car seemed to get better and better
On are last couple of runs the car was the best it had been round ipswich since we started which was good as we have had loads of trouble since christmas with all sorts of handling problems.
We ended up about 9th fastest at press day but only 3tenths off the fastest so still not exactly how we want it defo getting better.
I would like to say a very big thankyou to Paul, Andy, Porky, Slip, Budgie and Steve as with out all these the car would not have made on track today at all so thanks guys !!!!
Also a big thankyou to my mum and dad for all there support and help with the car and to Clair for putting up with me being in the garage every night.
One last thankyou to all the sponsers that have made it possable to get in the world final.
I will post some pics up soon off the car just as its been painted and also some as i do the signs on it.
I will report back to you all after next weekend !!!!
Well after having some really good fun in the banger at ipswich just over a week ago it was time to get back to the national and try and get some points to secure are place in the grid for the big one in july.
Heat one started well with the rain coming down hard, not what we really wanted after changing the car again we wanted to try in it the dry but it was not to be.
We were running in second place with no threat coming from behind i then came upto to lap some back markers and they just tagged me going into turn 1 no ones fault really just one of them things (thanks to the driver to come over and explain his side of things ) so i was spun round but we managed to get back to 10th so at least still got some points.
Second heat the car seemed good and again was running second till about 6 laps to go and the yellow flags came out, on the re-start as we were all so close the mud and spray that was coming up was really bad i went to pull my roll offs on my goggles but they had run out, After trying to wipe them as i was racing they just got worse and and i missed the turning in point of the corner and lost 2 places so ended up 4th so again few more points.
Final again car started really well but we decided to stick to 4 wets and i got to the front and started to pull away but about half way my tyres started to go and i was finding hard to get grip coming off turn 2 so got rail roaded down the places but then managed to get back in and get back to 8th so again few more very needed points.
So overall the car does seem to be getting back to its best as we are still trying to inprove it every meeting so roll on birmingham for the last round to see how we go.
The meeting could have been alot better for us but at the end of the day we are back to scoring points after a really bad year this year where we made the car worse.
Thanks again must go to all the team and sponsers as with out them i would not be doing what we are.
A big well done must go to Gav Murrey car 95 and team sole bay on winning all 3 races well done mate you were going well.
We have done a skegnes meeting and a hendo meeting since the last updates but as w changed things on the car we have gone backwards with the car, so i have not really had time to update the site.
We are now going to try and put the car back to where it was as we no i was not right but we could get some good results with it and then we will try things over the winter to inprove.
So we are all flat out in the garage trying to get the car sorted as we are back at hendo bank holiday monday so we really need to score some points to be able to get in the world final at are first try.
We are also building a banger for a team meeting at ipswich in may so i will post some pics up as soon as i get some and i will report back to you all after monday hopefully with some good news !!!!!
