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The last Barber Motorsports race of the week, and having had a decent week getting my SR back I was entering this last race.

I started last on the grid with no qualifying that way I can just work my way through the field, although every race I had I been at the back.

After the 1st lap I have already climbed to 12th from 16th on the grid. Some guy in front hit the wall, so that got me 11th. My lap 7, I was in 8th place and thinking this is a decent enough position to finish chasing Mikko for On lap 16th fellow team mate, Chris Bull spun on last corner. I beat Miiko that went wide for 21 laps trying to pass him eventually I did on lap 26. Then I chased Guido for 6 laps I slipped it inside him at the hairpin to put myself in 4th place with 6 laps remaining!, Brought myself home in 4th place.

Add to that I had 0 incidents and that got me a healthy +0.83 SR!, and nice 91pts increase on my irating.
That put me on 4.68 SR for the end of the week!

Results here:-

http://members.iracing.com/membersite/member/EventResult.do?&subsessionid=480957&custid=18351

4th Place at Barber Motorsports Park

Roll on Silverstone!

Here’s a video of my fastest lap in the race

I joined my 1st time trial at Barber Motorsports Park, I was 2-3 seconds a lap off the speed of my race speed, but that was to ensure I get clean laps for which I did.

I completed 8 laps with 0 incidents, gaining me 0.04+ SR.

That put me up to 3.42 SR.

Time Trial Result here:-

http://members.iracing.com/membersite/member/EventResult.do?&subsessionid=474854&custid=18351

I then joined a race about 1hour later.

It was a lonely race running at the back from last just in front of Brian Labode,  2 off tracks and a spin just in front of Brain, finished the race 11th, but again an big increase in SR +0.29 which put me on 3.71 SR as to date.

Race result here:-

http://members.iracing.com/membersite/member/EventResult.do?&subsessionid=474975&custid=18351

Had my 3rd race at Barber Motorsports Park, and was hoping to do lot better than my last 2 outings. It was lonely at the back of the field but I went from 19th to 12th on the lst lap alone. Lap 16 already overtaken by leaders, not even halfway through the race! Climbed to 10th before I lost concentration, after pushing the tyres to hard and having a puncture. Had to bring myself home in 16th place. But more impressive I gained a massive +0.24 SR!

Had the great Greger Huttu racing.
Annoying thing was I had 3 tyres go in 1 race. Causing me to go off track on way to pitlane, I lost 0.19, which i gained the day before.
Ended up 5 laps down to the great Huttu himself.

The Great Greger Huttu lapping me.

All the racing divisions are set.

Im in division 10 Radical, division 10 mazda, and division 10 skippys.

The radical is my main aim this season, Im aiming to finish in top the 5 which i should think is possible.

Im 17th at the moment, and Im the only English representive in divison 10.

This was the incident at turn one!

The driver has been penalised.

A new race track this week at Barber Motorsports Park, and I never been here before or even know where it is in America!

Started doing 1:30s lap times, which is some 10 secs off faster guys, later that night I managed it into the 1:26s a nice improvement for a few hours work. Im not particularly enjoying this track as much as last week at Daytona International Speedway. Maybe I try a few Mazda and Skip Barber runs, at tracks I know a lot better.

After a good start all went bad at turn one , when some hit me and I had to start from the pitlane dead last, I managed to crawl my way back into the top 10 about halfway into the race. In the end I finished 6th which is good enough for me having started last after being in the pitlane for a reset after the 1st corner!

Thanks to Peter Driscoll, for the win for England myself and Simon Brown for a top 6, and Brian Labode in 8th, that made 4 of us England in top 10

http://members.iracing.com/membersite/member/EventResult.do?&subsessionid=460262&custid=18351

Joined a race in the radicals at Daytona International Speedway, started 7th on the grid and climbed to 3rd on lap 6,  by then I manged to get to 2nd and was looking good till the last 3 laps when my steering gone wobbly, and I had to do a reset, only after the lap but before my pitstall, which put me a lap down and finished 10th.

Results here:-

http://members.iracing.com/membersite/member/EventResult.do?&subsessionid=451775&custid=18351

http://members.iracing.com/membersite/member/eventresult_lapchart.jsp?&subsessionid=451775

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