Final round of the season - Saturday Qualify

I went into the final weekend with some good points advantage over Mike in class C, as well as Rob and Gordon in class A. I also had the advantage of a double header at my home circuit of Snetterton

The day dawned nice and bright and I was all prepared, having taken the car down to the circuit the night before. I was ready for a nice relaxed weekend until we headed down for scrutineering and I realised I did not have my race suit with me! So as the car sat in the queue, I sprinted home and returned just in time to see the car being pushed into the scrutineering bay.

I was really looking forward to the qualify session and it all went quite well from the start. I was running just behind Paul and the car was turning in well, I had a little more understeer through the fast Corum corner but was stopping well for Russels and I was able to get good traction out onto the back straight. I did not have any idea of the times as the Digidash was playing up and then as I was getting comfortable the car felt a little strange when I came to the entrance of the Esses where the car seemed to lack turnin all of a sudden.

Then a few seconds later, as I exiting Corum and came to brake for Russels, the car suddenly grabbed to the right, pulling the wheel from my hands and spun at well over 100mph. It slid sideways, scrubbing off most of the speed and backed onto the grass on the outside of the circuit. I waited for the traffic to clear and then drove back to the paddock. Each time I touched the brakes or tried to turn the steering grabbed again.

In the pits it was obvious that the bottom front drivers side wishbone had failed at a weld point. Amazingly the 5 laps I completed before it broke gave me 3rd in Class for the first race later on the Saturday and 2nd in class for the final rounds of the 2007 championship season on the Sunday. Between qualify and the race, we headed back to Johns and he did an amazing job of rewelding the failed wishbone as well as welding a new anti-rollbar fixing onto the spare. We got the new part back on and the car into running order just as we were called to the assembly area. Sometimes its all about the support you get from your pit crew rather than the driver.

RGB 2007 Final Round at Snetterton

I will leave the summary of the final two rounds of the 2007 championship to the local newspaper report and a couple of photos from the podium at Snetterton showing the championship standings!
A full report of the weekend will follow when I have a spare few minutes!

Firstly that report from the Eastern Daily Press.

Here is a photo showing the championship results for Class C.


Here is a photo showing the championship results for the Overall Championship!