What a weekend!! Qualifying went pretty well actually - only a tenth behind my team mate James and so it was encouraging to have carried the speed from Thruxton forward.

Sprint race

Life is full of if onlys - but I actually made a god initial start only to ruin it by taking 2nd gear too early and the motor bogged! Arrgghh these standing starts, I'll get them spot on one day. I think the Lexus and Peugeot of Soper did both me and James off the start, which was where the problems started. For some reason James was making hard work of re-taking the boys up front and having finally got past them all I went to over take James only to get turned around at Cascades by him.

In fairness it wasn't really his fault - I went the long way around the outside of him and turn in across him - I thought he might have backed off for me, I thought wrong and around she went! So at the end another 4th place but I was absolutely on the pace and netted the 2nd fastest race lap.

Feature race

Well all I needed here was the fire and brimstone and we'd have had the lot. Made a great start and overtook James around the outside at the first corner to lie 3rd. Then into Cascades on the 2nd lap as I made the downshift from 6th to 4th - the gearbox didn't quite work as it should do. This un-balanced the car and I spun.

OK - re-start pretty much last only to get a puncture a few laps later. The pit stop fixed all that only then it started to jump out of 2nd gear out of the hairpin. Still not a huge problem as I was back upto 5th and hard on the tail of Luby. Went to overtake him into Cascades and he simply turned in on me. He went off and two corners later my cars gearbox finally gave up. It was a pity because without these problems we would have had another podium.

Still we proved once again that we have got the speed, roll on the night race!