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After a week of very little sleep due to nerves and excitement, the action finally got underway today.We have just got home from a rather mixed day of emotions,it was first race with the new car,our expectations were fairly high due to possitive testing, but you never can be quite sure till it gets competitive.
Morning practice went very well with both Ben and Rachel posting decent times,we got pipped to fastest lap on the last lap of the session,Still 2nd fastest on it's first outing is pretty damn good going,our expectations were not too high after all.
We then headed into qualifying in the afternoon.The weather conditions turned somewhat for the worst,Rachel started in the car and went 3rd,the car had never been out in the wet in anger so we were happy with that.It started drying out pretty quickly so we got her in put some slicks on,changed some settings and sent Ben out,immediately he started flying in these conditions and went 2 seconds quicker than anybody else.The track was drying out and the times were coming down.Now it was getting exciting,could we really get pole first time out?
But then the drama came to spoil our day.With 15 mins to go Ben came in saying he couldn't change down,unfortunately the gear change cable had came lose and had fouled on the exhaust causing it to break.Some sterling work by the team meant the car was able to get back out ,but to no avail as he was still struggling to select gears.
We are certain that pole slipped through our fingers as we didn't get a time in as the track was at its dryest (in testing we were over a second quicker than pole time) We ended up qualifying 9th.
With a 3 hour race and a replacement cable we are looking forward to what will be an exciting race tomorrow afternoon,watch this space.
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