Got up at 0430 to a very cold and frozen day, made it to Snetterton in good time at 0730, it hadn't got any warmer. Track time was delayed to 1000 due to the circuit still being frozen! This however gave me enough time to swap over the front brake pads which I managed to do suprising easily and quickly.
First session the track was very greasy so I took it easy, I also had the brake pads to bed in so couldn't go too mad. There were a lot of cars on track which led to several red flags and also long queues to get out on track. Not ideal if your car wouldn't idle properly!
Later on managed to put it off going into Russell, its a bit of a difficult entry as you want to start braking just before you've finished coming out of the previous corner. It turned out later this is where I ripped of a bracket holding on the front anti roll bar, this eventually led to an early day.
The track came good about 2pm and I started to put my foot down a bit, unfortunately some parts of the circuit didn't have as much grip as others and I had an almighty 180 in the middle of the track coming out of the first corner. Travelled a fair distance and the tyres didn't look at all healthy afterwards!
All in all it was a fairly succesful day, I managed to get some reasonable pace even though the handling was out due to the missing anti roll bar bracket. Engine definately not at full power yet but a complete service will hopefully sort that out.
Fair bit of work to do now to get it ready for the Meet and Great on 27th Feb!
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