QLD Championship Round 2

Back in Warwick, the weather is slowly getting cooler but I was more than happy to be back. Since the break from my last race I had the arduous task of pulling my car apart to throw a coat of paint on it - 4 different colours just wasn't a good look. Thanks to help from my good friends (Chris Hogg & Ashley Johnson) I was able to not only remove the front suspension and strip the car down, but I was able to throw some paint on the plastics and put it all back together before its journey down to Bathurst.

Now armed with some knowledge of Morgan Park, I arrived on Friday ready to put some good practice laps in. On the first session the car felt good, we made some adjustments to the suspension ready for the second session. I questioned the slight bit of play in my steering but I went out anyway. Turns out along the sweeper (a 180+ kph corner), the steering linkage snapped and my 2mm of play went to about 10cm. Somehow I managed to keep the car on the track though I was a bit un-nerved by the whole thing.

The steering arm was replaced, and an issue I was having with 4th gear (which I later found out was broken) ready for qualifying.

The first race was quite interesting a few crashes and offs left me up in 5th place, it really pays to be consistent in motor racing! I dropped back the next race to 6th and by the last race I had made a pretty dumb suspension adjustment to my car which dropped me back to 8th. The quest for the sweet spot continues for me and my suspension.

Again the team owner/manager gave me a piece of valuable advice, from every single time you go out on the track you need to learn something, you need to come in, take in what happened and learn. Not only how to be faster, but what to change, what to do different and what to do the same.

Stay Quick.