Thunderhill 7/17-18/04
I won a race! Woohoo! The Saturday race went well, hanging with Elvis and Barry for a good part of the start of the race. I suffered a 4 wheels off excursion while trying to get around lapped traffic and had to resign to 3rd, my first podium. Sunday, I qualified on pole and had the confidence to lead from the green to the checkered, mistake free! Gotta love that.
The Saturday race, from start to end. - WMV (114MB) -
The Sunday race, from start to end. - WMV (102MB) -

 

Reno-Fernley 6/5/04

My first race *ever,* and boy, was it an exciting weekend! I did pretty well on the first day, consisently running 2nd fastest times in practice and testing on this completely new track. I qualified and finished 3rd place in the first race. Unfortunately, I had that position stripped from me by the race director due to a completely avoidable incident where a Pro7 driver initiated severe contact with me, resulting in his car being totalled. The fact that I was a rookie and was involved in contact, regardless of fault, was enough grounds for disqualification apparently. Welcome to racing, I guess. ;)

The Pro7 vs SM vs Wall incident. As you can see, the Pro7 driver (who wasn't even in my racing class) was either trying to scare me into lifting or simply didn't know where the bounds of his car were. In either case, the end result was not in favor of him. - QT (6.7MB) -