Megane: Manfeild

Congrats to podium.

Practise and qualy were better than expected as I made 1:06 laptimes (in offline practise I could only make 1:07).

At race I had a nice time today driving so close to other mates for so many laps. Start was a bit of a mess because somebody close to me made a jump start and then I made a very late start and lost some places, but kept close to the others till the track was clear enough and the attacks came.

We had slight contact, some had half-spins in front of me getting out of slow turns and I managed to run 8th for some time in lap 22 until I lost my position in a side by side fight with Alan... and went to the green :(

After that I was aming for 12th (11th when Brian made a mistake) but then I made a mistake myself, so I finally finished 12th that feels a bit bitter, but next time will be.

Cheers.

Not at all happy that another driver flew back across the track and hit me in the left front causing major damage, ending my race. Please don't fly back across the track if you somehow end up off it.

First of all shame to Wyatt for what happened to him. This race was decided by backmarkers which was a shame :'(.

First few laps were great battling with Pablo. I overtook him at the last corner, just to forget half a lap later where I was and run wide, giving him the spot back :D.

Two laps later I overtook him again and the last corner and then I was behind Wyatt by a good 3s. Wasn't gonna get close to him, but there was an incident between him and Scott, so I was in P1 all of a sudden, with Wyatt hot on my tail.

Had to defend a few times but the racing was great. Them Matt spun infront of us and me and Wyatt hit him. I only clipped him but Wyatt spun due to the impact. My wheel was aimed 40 degrees to the right and my suspension was shot. Was 1s a lap slower than normal, and with Milan 6s behind me with 5 laps to go, it was gonna be close.

He was gaining fast and I had to be extra carefull because my car was even more twitchy through the esses.

Then in the last lap a car rejoined and crossed the track square on which cost me a boxershort and a vain.

Mixed feelings about the win as it doesn't feel deserved.

Had a fun race. I qualified 8th, which surprised me because I had no idea people would be doing 1:05s. Wow, you guys had some unreal pace up front. I gained a few positions in the opening lap, but a couple guys came together in front of me coming out of the slow left-hander and I was forced to drive off the track to avoid a punt. I re-entered almost dead last and clawed back from 20-something. I made my way up to Francisco G. and Alan Strang and we ended up in a really long battle with occasional changes of lead and occasional new cars getting involved. It was pretty wild. I managed to finally make my way up front along the front straight and passed Francisco into T1. He gave me a little tap going in, but I held on to it only to lose it a second later. I slipped and started to rotate and Francisco unavoidably hit me in the rear, damaging my rear left suspension. It wasn't bad enough to hurt my driving too much, just had to drive with the wheel a little off-centre. I climbed back up and re-entered the pack and in the end, I managed to come out on top of that pack running about 20s behind the front runners. It was a really fun race, in all, and thanks to team shark for running these. This was my first Shark event and it was everything I'd hoped for!

Also, Francisco, I saw you get knocked off track while fighting for position, but please be aware that it wasn't me who hit you. I was running a second or so behind you and Alan when that took place.

Too many mistakes personally led to a poor finishing position, saw plenty of people exiting the track through the esses which was easily done. Usual Shark train early on of John me and Steve until I lost it in the esses I think.

Generally seemed a fairly well handled race, I have reviewed some stuff and fed back to Alan who will ultimately admin this series, although bear in mind any outcomes will be applicable across both Shark series.

Any particular issues you have please PM Alan to review, there is no reason for not knowing R2P rules such as track reentry for example.

And we all now understand parc ferme as well!

Cheers
Nick

Once again couldn't turn my practise times into qualifying times so started 12th.After the start I initially hung onto the back of Nick & John until Nick had a spin.Wasn't making much of inroad on John until he spun & I snuck through.From then on spent the rest of the race fending of my team mate as he tried to regain his spot & was happy to finish in 6th place.
Congrats to the podium.

You're right about my visit to the green in lap 22 Justin, it wasn't you the one I was fighting to. At the time I wrote my report I wasn't sure who was by my side as I don't use nametags. Nevertheless, it's a racing incident as any other.

Sorry for the tap into T1, I was trying to hold my outside line as much as I could.

(Wow, so many pictures of the ING Renault... -thanks Justin).

I forgot to touch wood. Only mentioned yesterday how I've never had any PC related problems and today I get my first disconnect.

Wyatt i'm sorry for costing you the race, my car was badly beaten up and i was trying to keep as far to the side as i could all the sudden i just saw you come around and ya, so i'm sorry.

Also to Ryan, don't blame me for your fault, i was holding my line and you came over and hit me on the first lap so don't go blaming everyone for your sloppy driving if anyone got screwed it was me by your first lap hit. Good race thow overall looking forward to the next one.

Ahahaha watch the replay Matt, don't go blaming ME for YOUR to move to the right when a car was next to you, you're the one with the sloppy driving. You should have just followed the car in front of you, he obviously knew what he was doing.