You spend the year striving to do well, batteling through problem after problem hoping to make the result at the Final the one to remember. Unfortunately this is the opposite for me this weekend!
I'll start on Friday evening. A late 1am finish seen a lot of pre race work carried out which contiuned into Saturday afternoon before we left for Goodwood. All was seeming good at this point. After arriving later than expected at the campsite we all headed stright to sleep to wake Sunday realising we were an hour behind shedual, always good to have some morning stress before a race! Arraving at the track seen us go straight into scrutineering where it was deemed I was suddenly too tall since my last drive 2 weeks ago and an issue with braking seen us falling further behind however this was just the tip of the iceburge. I managed to sort the issues just in time for the F24+ race however we had no practice. Sat on the starting grid not knowing how the new gearing was going to work was very daunting.
Then the race began, and ended 20m later!
Pulling away all seemed good until I looked at the amp reader to see an extremely low drop of the amps. This was then followed by a stop. Asking the marshal to pop my belt back on I was given the reply of "its not off, its snapped" and there as the belt was handed to me torn in half, so had everything I had hoped to achieve that day!
Congratulations has to go to R-Pods who took the eventual Championship but an outstanding race from iWoosh producing some unbelievable lap times took the checkered flag for Round 8.
In the F24 race the title was taken by Rotary Racer, 4 laps clear of its closest rival! For full race standings see HERE. Local racers RLR fared well securing 17th, losing only 1 place from there grid start. This unfortunately was not enough to gain entry to the Corporate Challenge next year but should some teams pull out they may well being filling in... Theres also word over at RLR of a new build, this I look forward to seeing!
So, as I've said many times before, despite the result its not all bad. Its a pain not to have known how the gearing would have fared but its motorsport, things happen, its looking up for next year though.
Work is now well underway on the new build and heres a very sneak peak at part of the vehicle, check back again soon for more!
Its time for me now to sum up this season, and in a word AWESOME. It may seem strange for me to say that despite all that has happened but from all the years I've been involved in Greenpower this has taken the crown. Its not been full of high success but has given life changing experiences and taught me so much. Next season is already setting the bar higher than this one so this time next year you should be reading a very different review!
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