The 2009 Monoposto season has begun! Sorry for the delay in writing the report, but we’ve been having a bit of a break from anything to do with racing after six months of almost non-stop work, and I’ve been ill as well. But here it is, in all its glory.

The weekend began, as usual, a few days beforehand with the loading of car, tools and stuff required, as well as dropping off the car to the paddock on Friday evening. Being our local circuit we enjoy being able to sleep in our own beds and travelling the 15 minutes to the circuit each morning.  Saturday’s first tasks were signing on and scrutineering, both of which were easy and straightforward, with no problems.  Our car was attracting some attention due to the fact that it was nicely presented, although the repainting Magic Motorsport car of Niel Harrison looked resplendant in it’s yellow colour scheme too.
Soon, however, practice beckoned, and with a stomach load of butterflies we formed up in the assembly area ready to see how slow we were. I also had to scrub in a set of tyres – slicks because the weather was dry and quite warm – which dicated a number of slow laps, a mildly quick lap, a couple of slow laps and then freedom to try and set a good time.