Donington Park Mx-5 Championship Start

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More Covid-19 enforced rules came into play at Donington Park – separate enclosures for drivers, pit crew and spectators and no mixing between the two. Once again, in qualifying, I put in an excellent performance, finishing in fourth fastest, and putting me on the second row of the grid for the first race. Could I convert this into a race finish on the track? I must start better! And once again, my race start wasn’t the greatest! Off the grid, I lost six places and dropped down to tenth on the first lap. I pulled back a couple of places, fairly quickly and was makingRead More →

BRSCC Clubsport Donington 2019

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With the BRSCC MX-5 Championship over for the season, it was time to pitch my skills in a mixed class race. The BRSCC Clubsport Trophy race, held on the Donington Park National circuit in Derby on October 19th 2019 provided the ideal opportunity. The BRSCC ClubSport Trophy is a new multi-class format of production car racing which allows drivers to share race cars, involving a compulsory pit stop and an optional change of driver. Wanting to test myself in a longer race, I opted to drive the whole race without a driver change. It’s a 45 minute race with a grid consisting of cars fromRead More →

Donington Park Mx-5 Pollard

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I would start 17th for my last race of the year, having dropped back in the previous race after a silly mistake, but that’s what the first season is for! I knew I could make ground back up to where I should have started. Off the line I gained two positions quickly, coming past Clive Chisnall and another driver. I got myself in a good position, in the second group in the race. I was again having a good battle with Scott Leach and Seb Fisher. The battle continued for a fair amount of laps. However, one lap coming up to Coppice, it would allRead More →

BRSCC MX-5 Championship Donington

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For the first race, I would start 14th, as I had a three place grid penalty to carry over from my last weekend at Rockingham. I was confident I could made up positions though as my pace was quicker anyway. I also had some of my family down, so I wanted to perform well for them. The first race of the weekend went well, with myself holding positon and battling with Marcus Bailey, Seb Fisher and Scott Leach. For the second race though, I made a mistake early on after initially making a good start and making it to the front of the second pack.Read More →

BRSCC MX-5 Donington Park

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The weekend for me started on the Monday before the race meeting. I decided to book a track day beforehand as I’d never driven at Donington Park before. It turned out that the day would be a full on wet one. It didn’t stop raining all day. However, I took this as an opportunity to really learn and improve my wet weather driving. This I did. My confidence grew throughout the day, with lap times tumbling down. This was partly down to me getting more confident with the conditions, but also because Ali Bray from AB Motorsport was improving the setup each time I cameRead More →