Our day at Mallory Park started with a very exciting race between myself and Richard Wakeling for the first place position - unfortunately he achieved first and I finished in a respectable second place in front of Mark Griffin, Mark Day and Mark O'Flanagan. The second heat wasn't quite as successful but I still managed to gain a fourth place.

It was from this point that the day in terms of racing went down hill. 

In heat three, I caught the back of another mini and managed to cause the car to stop - so a DNF in heat three. The final was next, we'd worked hard and got the car repaired so we were all set out with the aim of winning. I continued to drive my hardest moving up a couple of positions from the start within the first lap, however whilst chasing Mark Griffin something went wrong and I hit a large stack of tires with some force, causing another DNF for the day, along with no / very few points towards winning the championship!

Hopefully we'll have a better day on the 9th September when we have a track / test day at Blyton Park and also on the 22nd September when I hope to be competing at Brands Hatch with the semsec guys!

Also, for those of you who are interested: 
1st: Richard Wakeling
2nd: Tommi Edwardes
3rd: Mark Griffin

So, I've not long been back in England after an enjoyable 10 days over seas with the Minicross crew - racing at two tracks which were completely new to me. The first being  Maasmechelen in Belgium and the second being in Valkenswaard in Holland - both of these tracks were completely different to anything which I was used to or have seen in the UK with challenging corners, chicanes, loose areas and hills. Despite the huge difference in track style and lay-out and the fact that I'd never raced at either track before, unlike the other drivers, I managed to gain some good positions. For example. a first in heat three in Holland. There were also some complications however, as you will be able to read about below in more detail.

My racing day in Belgium was fairly successful and enjoyable on the most part, despite a slight mishap in the final caused by a bent steering arm which led to my only DNF of the day. The track itself, was as I mentioned earlier, completely different to anything which I've raced on previously and so was a huge challenge to me, but after a couple of practices I'd learnt my way around and was chasing the others and really giving them a challenge - despite their prior experience of this track!

As you can see from the birds eye view of the track, it really is a challenging place where there is no time to relax once the lights are on! The joker was also quite a challenge and livened up the racing - showing who had thought through their racing tactics and who had not, as the case may be. The hill was also quite a challenge as you had to be very precise on your racing line, to ensure that no accidents occurred and so I feel that this helped to improve my accuracy and driving and gave me a new experience - having four wheels off the ground and still being the right way up (you can find a picture of this in the Gallery). 

The racing here at Belgium was very close and definitely reassured the other drivers that I wasn't going to give up without a fight - this racing season will be mine!