SMRC Rounds 11 & 12

[TrackScotland]

Fee had her first shot at door to door racing.....

Well for my first race outing I had an awesome time!

The car was totally misbehaving yesterday and I only got out on track for 10 minutes and was convinced it was going to die in the qualifying session!

Luckily, leaving it untouched overnight seemed to work magic and the car was fine today

Qualifying was wet and very slippy. I'm still trying to learn the limits of the car back on normal tyres and didn't push nearly as much as I should have / could have. Because of the rain we decided to take the slicks off in the morning and get the wets fitted as it looked like it was going to be a wet day.

On the first race I started 13th on the grid. Had a wee chat with Sandy Forrest beforehand and he mentioned (or maybe I just misunderstood him) to just start going once all the lights are on.....so I did! Doh! I was off and no one else was! So started trying to roll back and then everyone else was off! Worst start possibly ever! I have been creasing at the video of it!!!

The track was still quite slippy and I had a few excursions onto the grass/gravel but managed to keep it going.

I was behind Alex Bruce for most of the session and was determined to pass him, but went a bit too wide after the chicane and lost some ground.

Finished 10th overall and 2nd in my class.....woooo!

For the second race, I knew to wait for the lights to go off! My start was good and I managed to pull forward a bit. I approached Duffus and found Marco driving across the track! Managed to avoid him and carry on. Unfortunately the front facing camera had shut off by that point, so I only have a rear view of Marco off-roading!

I had a good few laps with the Seat behind me.... I was convinced that he was going to get passed me on so many occasions but by sheer luck I managed to keep ahead. The rear end of the car was wild coming out of the hairpin. On maybe lap 7 the tyres started to turn to jelly and flung me wide out of Macantyres (I think) and gave him the opportunity to get through.

Still....finished the race 2nd in my class again, and 7th overall

Tyres are definitely passed their prime

Brake pedal had a lot more travel in it when I got into the pits after the second race

Bodged catch can has sprayed oil all over my engine

But other than that, the car seems to be good

I am definitely too 'trackday trained' though and need to learn to push more aggressively on the corners

Thank you to Matty for all his help today, and to Marco for helping me out on Saturday.

In typical Fiona fashion, my vids are a bit crap (I've got front facing and rear facing from race one, but only rear facing for part of race 2) - will get them uploaded tonight/tomorrow

Vids

Front facing GoPro in Race 1 - wet, very slippy -

External hairpin -

Twisty bits -

Pics

[johnnyr6]

Fantastic, great write up Fee, Well done.

johnny.

[TrackScotland]

race 2 footage

before the battery died

[marky.t.s]

Good write up Fee, I was spectating at Clarks corner most of the day,it certainly looked a bit hairy coming out the chicane a few times and the turn in at Clarks looked really greasy, even Bruces Evo was struggling to get any grip on the turn in.

[cruz104]

fab write up and well done on your results

[ciaranrb5]

race 2 footage

before the battery died

Fee was tearing away on straights the Seat seemed to catch under breaking every time? Looks like brilliant fun

[TrackScotland]

I'd imagine the Seat having a couple of hundred kg advantage over the Skyline Fee's main problem was traction.... and she also had a sierra cossie infront of her so not braking 100% normally

[marky.t.s]

Just watching Fee being interviewed on Motors TV, last race just on now!