DRMC 1 – Ikast
The race season has finally started!
The first race weekend was in Ikast competing in the first race weekend in the Danish Championship.
We knew as a team that this was gonna be a tough weekend, as we will meet the best Danish drivers. Besides that point, this weekend will also be the first race weekend in the Danish championship as a team Eshington Racing.
We also knew, that if it was going to rain we were gonna be too much of the pace. We knew rain was our weak point, so we hoped for a dry weekend.
Unfortunately, 90% of the weekend was in wet conditions. That’s also one of the biggest factors in why the weekend was tricky.
On Saturday, we drove qualification and one heat. Saturday was wet all day. We qualified 37. and 38. In the race heat later that day, I ended up gaining 4 places, and my teammate Lau ended up gaining about 5 places.
We thought Sunday was gonna be dry. Unfortunately, the weather changed last second, and both warm-up and my heat were in wet conditions again. I once again gained 4 places, but we needed better results to be completely satisfied with the weekend. I had to drive the second-chance heat, in which the top 6 out of 10 drivers would get to the A final, and the last 4 in a B final.
I started in 5. place and my teammate Lau started in 7. place. For this race, we put on dry tires for the first time in these weekend races. There was only one dry line on the track. Everything else besides that one line was wet. So we needed to be precise.
I pushed too hard hitting the wet part and slid into the gravel. I got going again and pushed to the finish. My teammate and I finished in 5. and 6. So we got into the A final.
It was dry in both the pre-final and final. I made up some places and started 30. out of 34 in the A final. I ended the final in 26. place. So all in all I ended number 26 out of 38. I’m pretty satisfied with the result when we take the weather into count. So now, we need to practice some wet racing and prepare for the next race week for the 1. leg of the Zealand Championship in Copenhagen.
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