2015 S1 Week 9

Week 9 started very well, the first race was a 146 point haul in the MX-5 Cup; the biggest I've had so far. I started on pole and got away as the others battled behind me. A little over mid way through the race, the Robin (currently 4th in the series) caught me up and went by. I wasn't too upset, I never expected to be able to hold him off. I followed him for a couple of laps when he suddenly disappeared; his internet must have failed. I managed to hold Aaron off (ranked around 25th in the series) to snatch a lucky win.

I followed this up with a 125 point score in the Production Car Challenge. Once again gaining from someone else's misfortune when the leader got taken out by an MX-5 driver.

My luck then turned; I had 3 bad performances in the MX-5 Advanced series. One of these in particular was devastating as I was comfortably in 2nd in a very high SOF race which would have earned me around ~150 points. I ran wide on the penultimate corner, putting my right rear wheel off and spinning the car into the opposite wall with only 2 laps remaining. In the fourth race my internet went crazy during warm up and I didn't get it fixed in time to grid up, forcing me to start from the pits. My lap times would have seen me battling for 2nd and 3rd.

I finally got a decent race in, finishing 4th. I really should have settled into 3rd position, as I battled for 2nd I let someone steal my podium after a poor passing attempt that compromised my lap.

With just 3 Weeks left in the season I'm very happy with where I'm currently sitting in the series which I've been focused on:

9th out of 3,332 drivers in the Production Car Challenge

26th out of 10,530 drivers in the MX-5 Cup

31st out of 1,907 drivers in the MX-5 Advanced Cup

Series	Races	Wins	StartPos	FinPos	PTS	iR	SR
Adv Mazda MX-5 Cup	5	0	4.2	10.8	43	-36	0.01
Production Car Challenge MC	2	1	6.0	8.0	70	-2	0.09
Street Stock Series	2	0	8.0	5.5	74	40	-0.11
Mazda Cup	1	1	1.0	1.0	146	89	0.16

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License	B
Safety Rating	1.78
Corners Per Incident	26.18
iRating	2381
Total Driving Time	3 hrs 41 mins
Race Starts	8
Race Finishes	4
Disqualified	0
Disconnections	4
Qualify Sessions	9
Time Trials	0
Wins	1
Podium Finishes	2
Top 5 Finishes	3
Average Finish Postion	8.9
Total Laps	93
Incidents	27