{"id":229,"date":"2015-03-04T21:23:36","date_gmt":"2015-03-04T21:23:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.themightyforth.co.uk\/?p=229"},"modified":"2015-03-04T21:23:36","modified_gmt":"2015-03-04T21:23:36","slug":"rd-formula-vee-race-nordschleife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.themightyforth.co.uk\/?p=229","title":{"rendered":"RD Formula Vee Race – Nordschleife"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"RD<\/a> \"RD<\/a><\/p>\n

Had a lot of fun the Formula Vee cars at Race Department tonight.\u00a0\u00a0 We could have done with some more drivers, but there always seemed to be someone to race against and I ended up with two 2nd place finishes in the end!<\/p>\n

I qualified in pole position after Jarek decided to DQ himself to start at the back of the field.\u00a0 I got a good start and had a 5 second gap to 2nd until I managed to spin the car and end up 7th less than a third of the way into lap 1.\u00a0 I slowly made back a few places with overtakes and passing a couple of spinners and somehow ended lap 1 in the lead again.\u00a0 Jarek was about 6-8 seconds a lap quicker then me and I knew if would just be a matter of time before he caught and passed me.\u00a0 I tried to keep up with him but it was compromising my concentration levels and I started to overdrive the car.\u00a0 I settled into 2nd and stayed there to the finish with the next car over a minute and a half behind.<\/p>\n

Race 2 was a reverse grid so starting from 7th, again I slowly made my way through the field up into the lead with Jarek in close proximity.\u00a0 He passed me on the long straight at the end of lap 1 and I spent the next two laps trying to at least keep a respectable distance from him.\u00a0 I finished 9 seconds behind in the end and two minutes ahead of 3rd placed Srinath.<\/p>\n

Great fun driving these cars and at the Nordschleife it’s an amazing challenge!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Had a lot of fun the Formula Vee cars at Race Department tonight.\u00a0\u00a0 We could have done with some more drivers, but there always seemed to be someone to race against and I ended up with two 2nd place finishes in the end! I qualified in pole position after Jarek decided to DQ himself to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":230,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[32,31,25,22,21],"class_list":["post-229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-formula-vee","tag-nordschleife","tag-podium","tag-race-department","tag-rd","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.themightyforth.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.themightyforth.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.themightyforth.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.themightyforth.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.themightyforth.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.themightyforth.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.themightyforth.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.themightyforth.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.themightyforth.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.themightyforth.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}