Matt: FTD – 39.91s

Steve: 1st in Class – 41.83s

Steve: We will start with racing driver excuses, I hadn’t been to MIRA since 2005 and Matt had not been there since 2012, but he used to regularly compete there not only in his own Westfield but the SBD Duratec Westfield as well. We had made further set up changes to the car and because it wasn’t a British Sprint round, I had adjusted it to hopefully achieve understeer where previously we had always been getting oversteer. This way we would know what the limit was and we could dial it back in slowly over the day. Matt went first as usual and managed to post a slightly quicker than me. We were 2s behind Pete Goulding, who had been there fairly recently. The car was definitely understeering slightly, more so for me than Matt, which caused me to back out the throttle halfway round the first corner. We didn’t make any changes in 2nd practice, just so we could get more time on the track without changes. I had also slightly modified the launch settings and we were definitely getting good starts in comparison with everyone else in our class. We made good improvements to our times. We made some small adjustments to the set up for the 1st timed run and it was definitely understeering less, so another step forward. We kept improving our times throughout the day. Matt finished the day with FTD and a time of 39.91s, which we believe could be a new course record. The 2L class record for the British Sprint Championship is 41.61s and the Unlimited BSC record is 40.02s We were 1st and 2nd in class up against a competitive field of 2L racing cars. We were very pleased with the day, especially since the new little aero mods that we had made appeared to give us a reduction in drag and we gained some speed on the straights.