Autocross @ Latton Quarry - 4th June 2006

Well there are positive and negative aspects to Latton. One is it has a great track - surface is really good and the organising club where very helpful and very nice to all competitors.

The negative aspect is i tried to hard to better my time. (yes i know this was all my fault) Dad had set a time of 2:16 on his first timed run and i had set a 2:09 on mine.

The brakes where ok as it turned out we didnt need them much. Dads second run was much better than his first with him setting a time of 2:11 - still 2 seconds off the boy wonder!

I went out on my second run. I was absolutely flying - i was wide in a few places but generally i was running really well - the first lap was great. Near the start there are two jumps. I took the first one well and then heading for the second i made a huge jump. I landed too far left and had to correct it. Then slow-mo started - the car went sideways and i shud have accelerated to bring it out of the slide but i braked and slid up onto the bank and over the car went onto its roof!!!! I was so mad with myself as i know i was driving pretty well.

I had to go over to the Ambulance and get checked out and i was fine. I have to thank Mervyn Wedlock for taking care of me and the ambulance crew also for checking me over.

We didnt damage the car too much but i shudnt have damaged it at all - but thats motorsport

Preparations!!!

This is just us checking the car over for anything that might be about to go wrong. We really learnt our lesson from Kilnaleck. A lesson we should have known already.

The brakes still arent great so we are going to bleed them and see how that goes. Also we got new pads so we need to break them in also.