We eventually qualified 20th on the grid of 75 cars and after a later than planned start to the day, left the school at 6.00am on October 13th, destination Goodwood.
Quickly through scrutineering, we enjoyed the full hour of practise laps, putting in some very promising times and data through our telemetry system.
At 1.00pm sharp, Lord March the owner of Goodwood, waved the flag to start our 4 hour race. We quickly settled into a steady pace, gradually making ground with some fine driving from all members of the team despite some horrific weather (horribly cold and very, very, very, wet!!).
All was well until Mr Stephenson (Headmaster) made his annual appearance and instantly jinxed us!!!!(this has happened before in previous years!).
As our final driver of the day (Liam Hazzard Lynch) began his long 1hour and 20minute stint on the last set of batteries of the day, he was pushed off by Reece.........and promptly rolled to a stop at the end of the pit lane!!!!!
On recovering the car it took 10 minutes to diagnose a sheared main power cable and a further 15 minutes of frantic work to fix it, leaving us out of the race for 25 minutes.....DISASTER!!!
Because of the lost time, Liam was able to push much harder than we would normally and he quickly began to regain places working his way from 42nd back up to 22nd before spectacularly spinning off at Woodcote corner twice and having to be pushed back onto the track by a marshal. Despite this setback, Liam valiantly struggled on through the frankly God-awful weather and managed to finish the race 32nd, tired, wet and a little disappointed!
On a slightly more positive note, having crunched the numbers post race, we have worked out that had we not suffered a 25 minute breakdown, we would have come approximately 12th.......promising!
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