The penultimate meeting of the 2010 Monoposto Racing Club championship was held at Croft this weekend, and it had the potential to decide the championship. I went into the meeting 12 points adrift of Jeremy Timms, having trailed him in the championship for the entire year. Jeremy could have clinched the championship here, but fortunately the outcome was rather different, and now the championship will go down to the wire at the final meeting of the year in just over two weeks time at Silverstone on the National circuit.

The whole weekend was a chilly affair, but the rain stayed away (at least during daylight hours), and the track remained in reasonably good shape throughout. Saturday morning saw a fairly uneventful qualifying session in which Timms took a fairly easy pole position from me in 2nd, with Richard Purcell in 3rd having repaired his engine. The gap between Jeremy and me was 0.3 seconds, which isn’t a lot in Monoposto terms, but I didn’t have an answer for him. The misfire had returned, this time no longer on gear changes (well, it did once), but now on full throttle; it occurred at 6300rpm or thereabouts, and the only way to maintain competitiveness was to reduce the throttle slightly (to 90%), which allowed me to accelerate through it. How much time that was costing me isn’t known, and it may have cost me pole position, but I think overall Jeremy just out drove me.