World Qualifying Round 9 - Ringwood 18th March 2006
We arrived at Ringwood around lunchtime last Saturday and were
surprised to see the pits already half full with lots of teams taking
advantage of the extra afternoon practice session to set-up their cars
for the evenings racing.
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The #262 car looked dreadful
in first practice until a tweak on the brakes improved things somewhat
although a troublesome mid-corner misfire wasn’t helping things.
With that problem rectified before the third run things were looking
much better and with the car looking fairly dialled with its new
springs and damper settings we returned to the van and some heat
before the evenings racing got underway. |
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Brian adjusting our
troublesome 1980's carbs before going out for another practice run |
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Race 1 and Brian had drawn a mid-grid start; it was evident that
some of the faster cars were going to come through at the start though.
Their performance simply incredible but with the field still bunched behind
the leader, Colin Gomm, Brian was able to stay in touch with the pack
and fend off #210 Hughie Weaver in what was a near race long battle to
take 14th at the flag.
