Best results achieved so far. Top 8 achieved in Touring Class Production on a grid of 30 drivers.
The weekend started off with a Thursday practice. Unfortunately, the timings were changed and the majority missed the first morning practice, with just one afternoon practice in place. Saturday’s qualifying was probably where most of the head space concentration lay, and I started on P11 for the race after a lot of traffic!
My start could have been faster, but I had relatively clean lines and overtook in Lap 5, going in to T9 passing a blue car, that I had been trailing up to that moment, who was breaking slightly earlier than me, and his car had a slight pip over me, as it pulled away on the straights. I was alone for the rest of the laps till Lap 9 , when a safety car came out and we pitted , using the time for my 3 minute mandatory pitstop.
I re-entered the circuit with the safety car still out behind a string of 1.6L. Lap 11 the race restarted and in Lap 12 I made up two spots going in to T4, from the inside and caught the Proton Factory team, passing them just before Lap 13. I made one mistake that cost me a place in T14, I braked too late and overshot and couldn’t catch Tony Teo after he passed me!
In all, I had a great weekend, it passed too fast and I could have gone for another one hour race! I felt a lot more relaxed and thank goodness the weather was easy on us!
Thank you to my sponsors Edutorque, Exquisite Marques, Tin Tin Singapore, Evo Singapore, and Livefitter. Great job from my team, Lai Wee Sing from R Engineering (who won the MTC class) and his boys who worked on my car. Thank you to Dick for the stickers and Dylan Yap from Speed-D Motorsport who prepped my helmet amongst other things!
Looking forward to the Season Finale in round 5 of the Malaysian Super Series
