Well, first let me say that I am shocked and pleased with these race reports. I was afraid that too many of us might find the races overly lonely with little to no battles. I must say that I was not expecting to have as much fun as I did myself. I was not lonely at all in either of the races.
In race one I had a great time, first trying to catch Hans while we were running 6th and 7th. Just as I was getting close to him (nice line Hans BTW) I missed my braking point, nearly took Hans out (tapped him though) and went up a hill lol. as I reach the top of the hill my door bell rings!! I figure that my car will stay on the hill so I run to get the door. When I come back I had gone from 7th to 13th and my Jaaaaaag was parked on the road!! Thankfully none of you smacked into it lol. Sorry about that roadblocking incident BTW guys, I thought my car would stay off the track long enough for me to open the door.
Then I managed to make my way back up to 10P and the battle with Bob began. He would get close enough to reach out and touch me during the bends but the Jaaaaaag would pull away in the straights. That went on for most of the last lap until the finish line. Thankfully Bob's TC didn't have a slightly taller gear and an extra 2HP, cuz if so I would've been toast lol.
Race 2 starts and I make it through the first couple of turns with only some minors bumps here and there. Then I am having some fun with Hans until a jag up ahead is seen doing some aerial acrobatics and I believe this distracted Hans a bit and I got past. Then I get caught and passed by Thommo and I proceed to do to him what Bob was doing to me in race 1 lol. At some point Stu has a small off though and I get past. So now I am running 5th and I get a little too happy about that and I get a bit distracted myself, go a bit too wide coming out of a right hander, my rear tires grab some grass and this launches my little TC towards the right side fence. This lets Thommo and David get by. I start the chase after David and a little while later he has a small off and I get by. But then I had to make a small stop at the NGK Shikane to make sure that the sand was nicely compacted lol, and David gets by again. I spent the rest of the race trying to close in on David. I got really close one time but screwed it up and got too far from him to catch him again. He was driving the Jag great and I was driving the TC too hard and making all kinds of mistakes.
Had loads of fun!
Because of the turnout and the results, I WILL be bringing her back. Next time with slightly faster cars. I will send out a Racing Club Message far in advance letting you all know of the car choices. That way you guys have ample time to drive it at the track and get acquainted. I am not sure exactly how long before the next Nords event though. Could be from 4 to 8 weeks. But I will let you all know at least two weeks in advance about it.
Thank you all for showing up!