We entered
Donington, I wouldn’t say with high expectations, but knowing that we weren’t going to be last. It was probably the wettest weekend that I have seen so far, maybe even the wettest race I’ve actually done, but we unceremoniously managed to put it into the gravel trap on lap one. We recovered from there, although we lost two laps, and had pretty much an incident free race after that. We made a poor tyre choice at the driver change and went onto intermediates – it then rained and we went slower. I think we finished up eleventh in class and 17th overall and in the process we happened to set the fastest class lap but nothing like fastest lap overall.
At the end of the day, we can only blame ourselves for the performance we put up. We thought we’d had a pretty good weekend in that mechanically we had no issues and it had gone smoothly for the first time out in GTs so we were happy to have achieved what we had achieved. Yes, we would have liked to have gone better but so would everyone. At the end of the day you go racing to win and if you don’t then you have to ask yourself why. I wasn’t disappointed and on the whole we were quite happy.
It transpired over the weekend, that a letter had been doing the rounds to try and drum up support for having Prosports banned. Obviously I was aware by Donington that this was an issue, after the article in
Autosport magazine that people had been moaning at
Oulton Park about Ian Stinton finishing second in the first race in his Prosport and how the car was too fast and shouldn’t be allowed in. However we had spoken to SRO about it and been assured that it wasn’t an issue and at the end of the day we had been accepted into the series – end of story.
