27 Aug 10 ...... Getting ready for first race

.... that was the plan anyway, 16 September at Oulton Park.

After a well earned week's break with Em and daughter Rhiannon in sunny Tunisia in mid August, the time to reflect on progress and what was left to be done before that first race whilst lay on the beach started to become a concern. In just 2 weeks I had a shed load of things left to do. It might have now started looking like a race car but it was far from ready underneath.

Jobs that had to be done that would take time were :-

• Remove, paint & refit front and rear clams, bonnet and boot lids, roof and wing mirrors.
• Full geo set up.
• Fit Tillet race seat, fit drivers 6 point Schroth race harness, pax seat and Schroth 4 point harness.
• Fit Lifeline electronic fire extinguisher, pipework and nozzles in cockpit and engine bay
• Fit TSL timing unit   
• Fix faulty engine temp readout on stack dash
• Test and fix lighting system and sort out rear fog light not working
• Fit wheel arch liners
• Find and fit door seals and fit doors properly!
• Make and fit boot bulkhead
• Fit graphics and series stickers

............. plus a whole bunch of other small jobs.

............. then I had to get some circuit time to learn to drive the car !!

To make matters worse, work was really busy and becoming a real time and thought distraction. The pressure of getting all the jobs done in time for Oulton was making the task just impossible... so I made the decision to pull out of Oulton. That would give me plenty of time, almost a month, before the next round that I could do which was Silverstone National on 16 October.  
.... that seemed much more do-able! So the email went off to Mr Golding to say that I was scratching from Oulton. To say I was disappointed is an understatement but I was at the same time relieved as the pressure was off for a bit.