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Knockhill 28th July

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StevenDarley
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Jul 31

Knockhill 28th July

OMFG!! I finally completed a round of Time Attack without breaking the car!! Well thats a slight porky pie, i broke my own car on thursday morning at 2am, after finishing building the grey STI5 ready for TOTB. Boll0cks!! This was a bad breakage, unrepairable in a day, so i quickly confirmed with Rob if i was good to take the grey car instead. Yes was the answer. Mark of Lateral Performance was good enough to let me use the car, as i would my own. The effort of building that over the previous week was worth it, becuase boy oh boy, what a circuit Knockhill is. For the first time, i felt like i could take a car round corners in anger ( i am used to straight line stuff), and this showed when after first practice i was in 4th place with a 58.7, just a smidge behind Rob in the pro class. To say i was chuffed is an understatement. Towards the end of this session i was starting to get my confidence back for braking into the seat curves, but failing to pull the rest of the lap together. I over cooked it earlier in the warm up session, holding onto 4th for too long, and then fish tailing through the seat curves. It took a few laps of fresh air coming back into the cabin before i recomposed myself :D It then rained, and in the final practice i wasnt too shabby with a 1.06 with the track getting wetter and wetter. It then rained for real, making the final a wet afair, with me having a major decision to make whilst going through scotsman and butchers as to lift and gravel it or plant it and prey for the best. I took the latter option, which proved to be the right one, but it lost me a good 2 seconds. Happy with the end result, and finally scored some points !