After a fun and busy test day, race morning arrived along with my man mountain arrives (Oli/Cub), who then eats my bacon rolls, but I was glad of the support.
Off to scrutineering, and guess what. PASS! So more tea and bacon, some pikey #4 made out of electrical tape, and we are ready to rock and roll.
22nd on the grid,5 sec off the Clios pace, but still having fun.
Race 1
In the thick end of things, which is interesting to say the least, made a fairly good start, made up a few places by elbowing my way through, then started to have a good exchange of places with Kevin in the MX5, just looks funny with no roof, and just seeing a head bobbing along next to you.
Then on lap 4 going into the hairpin with Kevin on the outside, I go hard on the brakes car starts to slow, then, BANG, pedal hits the floor and off onto the grass heading for the trees, handbrake and 3 spins later, I park under a tree well out of the way and have a little look, dripping brake fluid, damm.
Drive back to pits using handbrake, and get it jacked up.
Brake pipe had rubbed on the driveshaft as it had come out of the clip (I missed that one). Oli helped me remove pipe, then we search for help.
Dingers boy’s Phil and James came to the rescue, and remade the end of the pipe.
After a little swearing, said pipe was reinstalled, and bled through, top up with oil and ready to go again.
Race 2
Starting from the back is always fun (so they say), lights out and away we go, the little 106 fits into really tiny gaps, so some good progress was made, gained about six places on the 1st lap, then a three way battle started between Neale Hurren (mr2), Tony Collier (Toyota Celica) and myself, Neale seemed to spend more time off track than on, but kept it going, Tony C did a move Plato would be proud of around turn 1 (don’t know what they are all called), all I remember, was seeing him in the mirrors then he disappeared from view as I turned in, now I was on the apex and Tony C was inside me lol, I saw his roof as he 2 wheeled his way pass, this pushed him wide though and I got him back at the hairpin.
That was basically it, apart from watching out for the faster cars coming through to laps us, and a little nipping and tucking, we finished all fair and square.
I got 1st in class and fastest lap in class 1:35.4, so knocked a second off quali time, so pleased with that.
I would like to thank Mr Ian Collins for his generous loan of the car, at least I got to race rather than sit it out, and had great fun doing it.
Oli for his help and support.
Paul and James for doing the brake pipe.
Alec (Prize Motorsport) for putting up with me borrowing things all day.
And Track Attack for another great meeting.
Next Silverstone.
Watch this space 
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