Kieran O'Quick

Damn, how annoying is that? To go all that way and the loud pedal doesn't turn up. Exact same place every time. You seemed to take it pretty well mind.

Great stance

2nd in the flipping Connaught Championship? What a result. To almost win a championship is a hell of a thing. Damn, I wish you'd won it. Who got it in the end? There's bound to be more entants next year isn't there? It's a great series. The choice of circuits is amazing.

Big Satan Wing?

Please tell me you weren't doing deadlifts up there too... wth? 😀

2023 Season Review: All about the Rubber. Last year was a bit of a mess with the tyre situation. Couldn't turn it at all which feels so wrong in a Rwd car. But I persevered, wrestling understeer and got as much out of it as I could. The Yokohamas were back in stock for this year so I got some big fronts at last. The handling change wasn't exactly subtle. The first few events were plagued with ridiculous oversteer. Which was fun but not quick. I eventually figured out that the tyres were slow to bite - so you'd have a decent bit of lock on before it would suddenly dive to the inside. The back would then come around and the fun started. The answer was to steer less than seemed needed, wait a beat and trust that it would dive in. It took a bit of nerve but it worked and the times came down. The trouble is, this style of driving doesn't become instinctive and shouldn't really. So you forget and end up smoking out of the corners every other event. But it's still a whole world better than understeer. It's probably not so much the tyre as the tired chassis. A tighter setup would potentially iron out the lag. Who knows. Halfway through the year I got nagged into getting a proper seat which I'd been resisting. I found one on rails from a breaker that was such a steal I couldn't say no. Everyone who ever gets one raves about them and bah, turns out they're right. A normal seat is like having a bath with your socks on - if you know what I mean. The other rubber issue was that the tyres came in a higher profile. This didn't look like a big issue but it hit the acceleration noticeably. As in, a couple of tenths here and there. So I didn't beat last year's time. But I managed enough 3rd place finishes to grab 10th in the championship. And it didn't break and I didn't bin it, there is that.

Some fast times again. Great driving. The only ones ahead of you were the cheating boosted gang..

Jeez, 14k is a bit far for a 'fun' run on a hot day. Must have been carnage for the unprepared.

Crazy game. You got only one chance each day and still delivered. Impressive.

Disappointingly mature to not open the windows for the tunnel blast. 2.43 start is crazy. Best I ever did was 2.49 on really hot MPSS . Never beat that with any of the trackday tyres. Great to see a Zed so far up the leaderboard. Pretty exotic stuff ahead of you.

64.98 is a decent knock for April. There can't have been many people there beating you on a power-to-weight basis. Great bit of info on the tyre pressures. At least you know for the rest of the year not to be tempted to go low. Yokohama? What do they know....

Loving the weekly updates - well, apart from the fact that you beat my Anglesey time by a full second. You're going to be well used to the car this year. Match sharpness and all that. Expecting a PB this weekend now you're on the wider tyres?

You said you didn't hit an apex on the top half... We all just assumed you were taking the wet line. That didn't look like fun out there at all I have to say. A single lap in the wet is horrible.

I wonder if the first owner traded it in because he had a miserable time owning it? Is it possible to let him know?

Yeah, but can you win that war if you start it? You don't want Airbuses rattling your windows at 2am on a Sunday...