Ardent Winter Series Round 5

Well after nearly a month since I last raced at Chesterfield Ardent Winter series came round. I really look forward to going racing as I can only go twice a month at most. When I ran at chesterfield last I used CRC Control tyres instead of the RC4less ones I have been using for the past 6 months. I forgot how planted and consistent they are. I have decided to use the CRC tyres exclusively now as I know they will work everywhere! Ordered a new set of those from Wim at Action Model Centre and got them trued up. Granted I cocked up and instead of truing them to 54.5 they ended up at 53mm. Bit smaller than I like but they ran great! Also had the new Tekin 222 software on my RS Pro. Great to see so many GT racers turning up. Started off using an old set just to get feel for the car, first round ended up with a non finish due a broken steering block after being hit whilst stationary. Car felt great before that though. Second round and everything was going great but after about 2 minutes I felt I had lost a fair chunk of steering. Still managed to put a decent time in. When I got back to the pits I found out why I had lost some steering:

Yeah that set of tyres is done!
Put the new set on the for the last qualifier. 

Had a really good run with a couple of mistakes but ended up with a good time and ended up 6th in the A Final. The competition is really good, times are very close. 

Unfortunately didn't have a good finals. First final had a almost decent start but then after a car got launched onto main straight I panicked slightly, missed the car but then hit first corner. This deformed my bodyshell so I had to get marshalled. Put my down to 7th. Second final had a really messy start and had to fight from the back. Finished 7th but ended up 8th overall after the two finals. Here is a video of the first final, thanks to Tim for filming:
 

Overall had a good day, had a real good laugh. My friend Tim Ward got a GT after much nagging from me! I think he had a good day judging by the massive smile he had on his face each time he came off the track. Lessons learnt from this meeting, need to do more racing!! Car is going great but I need to get more consistent. Heres a couple of other pics I took and  video of Tim in the C final.