Well that meeting was a bit different!
From our perspective as others have mentioned, the 60s grid was packed with the big guns, and very few of us minnows.....cobras, Daytona’s and 26r seem to have multiplied during lockdown!
Winter set up changes made the car almost impossible to drive in free practice, but with some tinkering before quali, we got the car more balanced and managed to dip into the 2.49s, something we have never managed before, before a throttle rod popped off starving one bank of fuel (we don’t have enough cylinders to be without some of them) forcing us to stop early.
Thankfully race day ran late, so although still very hot, by the time we started the race at 9pm it was cooler. Car ran faultlessly during the race, but for whatever reason we could not find the pace we had in quali, and as Gerard has pointed out, settled into 2.52ish laps, which kept us out of harms way, and as others expired, we crept up the leader board to finish 28th at the flag.
All credit to the PA team, and all the organisers, marshalls, caterers and all involved in ensuring this went ahead, it was great to be back racing.
Last edited by 356sc; 27 Jul 2020 at 08:19.
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