Event Report, first real tarmac test of the year !!

Had a cracking day on the speedy hire stages at Rockingham yesterday, Darky pulled a few strings and got Tudor Jenkins to sit in with me for the whole day, From the outset we agreed to not look at times and use the complete day as a test session.
Stage 1 was dry, stage 2 was cancelled due to a non challenge pug crashing in the tunnel at the stage start, then the heavens opened and it poured down all day, to Tudor’s delight!! That’s it boyo, just what we want.
Tudor proved to be fantastic all day and pushed me on slowly with constant advice, i.e. slow down, break early, get down the box, keep it tidy then get on it lad!! All in his great welsh accent.
By the end of the day we were taking 20 seconds out of other cars in our class, and we had managed to drive close to 90 stage miles instead of the 60 in the regs, which resulted in us finishing 32 o/a and 6th in class but were given 2 16 min bogey times.
We had a set of the new yokohama challenge tyres on for the first stage in the dry but had to change back to the Hancook for stage 2, the tyre compound was far to soft, and after only 6 miles the front tires were wearing very bad, I think there is going to be a big stink about this, because it is going to cost a lot of money with the amount of tyres we may go through
Thanks to Darky for servicing and cracking jokes all day...

Well done Tom Peddle finishing 2nd in class,the escort looked great !!

Robert