FIA Main Event 28th – 31st May 2010
Friday started off the Sportsman Qualifying Rounds with sunny, but cloudy weather. Our only scheduled run closed the day’s racing at 5.10pm with a 5.95 @ 268.28mph.
Saturday began wet and miserable and although the rain stopped at around 3pm, the track was not ready by the time it began to rain again at 5.45pm. So that was it for Saturday, no racing done and hopefully better weather for the next two days.
Sunday proved quite an eventful day with power cuts, incidents on track and oil downs. This led to our first run being delayed from 1pm to just after 5pm. However after all the sitting around, we managed a 5.94 @ 268.16mph. Again because of the delays on track our last run of the day to end the racing was put back from 4.30pm to 8.45pm and a 5.90 @ 269.81mph. One very tired driver and crew!
Monday again was fine and dry, but was still playing catch up from the previous days’ events and the lost days’ racing on Saturday. The first run went from 11.30am to 1.30pm and hit 5.86 @ 281.48mph. Obviously a good’s night sleep had helped!!
The last run of the day and the event was at 4.40pm and after a long and eventful weekend, ran a 5.96 @ 269.76mph.
Time for a well earned rest and just maybe a beer!