Round 3 of the Ace Hire SIFF Championship was held at Teretonga on the 7th of december.
I didn't have such a great start to the day with a gearbox issue in qualifying where the car would stay in 3rd gear and kept jumping out. I had to use 2nd and 4th gears to try and get a decent time for the race 1 grid.
Race 1
I started race 1 on grid 13 and it was also a damp track. I didn't get away from the line to badly and with the gearbox issue fixed i had a lot more speed and was able to work my way up to 6th position and 3rd in class.
Race 2
The track was dry and with a faster lap time in race 1 ment I jumped upto grid 10 for race 2. I had a pretty standard sort of race and moved up a couple of positions to finish in 8th place and also 2nd in class.
Race 3
With the improvements made to the car setup during the 1st and 2nd races i was able to put a time in good enough to start on grid 8 for the feature race. I had a very bad start and lost several positions by the time we got to turn 2. I had to work hard to get back to where i started but got there 2 laps from the end, but coming onto the last lap the car died on me 1/4 of the way down the main straight. This was a real shame and ment i had a DNF and therefor lost the class 2 points. I still sit 2nd in class and 7th overall.
Round 4 is the 16th to 18th of January at Ruapuna. I am currently still looking for funding but at this point it doesn't look likely that I will be able to make round 4. This is a huge shame but these things happen and I will look to the future
Dyson Freeman
