Season begins at the mighty Targa racetrack. 72 miles of tight twisty action in Sicily. Qualifying started at 07:30 local time, and I was up and running by about 07:45 after having some trouble with sound issues on my computer necessitating in another restart.
Qualifying: Didn't go too smoothly. Had Greg about a minute behind me which added to pressure, then in 4th quarter of lap I hit a fence a bit too hard and bent something in the front right. The car wouldn't turn left after that with massive understeer everywhere and Greg closed right up. Down the long straight at the end of the lap he went past, I tried to follow him but had to nurse the car home. Qualified 3rd.
Race: Ok start, followed Axel in his 2F but something went wrong in about turn 4 and the car slid onto the grass. I then got hit by another car which put me onto the fence. Had to wait and do a reset - which meant I had used up my one reset at the start. Went off again, caught Axel when he spun, accidentally bumped him when going past. Caught Dean and got past him eventually when he went a bit wide, then got on with trying to drive very precisely but carefully. No catching Greg today, just too fast. Axel chased me all the way home, staying about 10 seconds behind all the time. Car felt good mostly, just not confident enough in this mad track. Very glad to get out with 2nd place points to start the season!!
Race result
Points table
| Mixed Mod - Drivers Championship (scoring) | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | Drivers | PP | Total | Vehicle |  |  | |  |  |  |  |  | |  |
| 1 | GregT (FT) | 50.0 | Ferrari 330/P4 | 50.0 | ||||||||||
| 2 | Mark Jones (FT) | 43.0 | Lola T70 MkIII | 43.0 | ||||||||||
| 3 | Cookie (FT) | 37.0 | Chaparral Mk2F | 37.0 | ||||||||||
| 4 | Walter Conn (R1) | 32.0 | Porsche 910 | 32.0 | ||||||||||
| 5 | Doni Yourth (FT) | 28.0 | Ford GT40 MkI | 28.0 | ||||||||||
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