Cody Burcher-2018 Victorian Formula Ford Series Rd 2 Philip Island Race Report

Friday

On Friday we had 5 practise sessions and throughout the day made up lots of time in my driving and some other smaller adjustments after struggling some mid corner oversteer.

Saturday

Qualifying-Got to put on some new tyres and  I had to take a few too laps to scrub them in before having a proper go at a lap. I only managed to get 3 flying laps and wasn’t able to get a draft on any of the laps which didn’t help but still managing 6^th position.

Race 1-Race one got off to a great starting getting up to 4^th by turn 1 but falling back to 5^th through the draft on lap 1. In the final part of the second lap at turn 11 while short shifting gears from 2nd to 3^rd my hand bumped the ignition switch while brining my hand back up to the steering wheel and turning the car off, falling back to 11^th and made my way up to 7^th place, on the tail of 5^th and 6^th place over the line. Disappointing to of had this small little error costing me allot of time.

Sunday

Race 2-Another good start gaining 1 position off the line but got forced wide on lap 2 falling back to 9^th, making my way back to 7^th but not having great speed. Mainly because of myself not driving quite right and making too many small errors costing allot of time. Some setup imperfections also hindered us a little so we made some adjustments for race 3.

Race 3-Had a good start but got forced wide on lap 2 going back to 9^th. The car became much more  comfortable to drive and was much faster, making my way up to 5^th and battling for 4^th position for the last 5 laps of the race but only managed 5^th place and also claimed 5^th for the round.

I am very happy with how the whole weekend panned out especially the 5^th place for the round. As usual lots of things to still work on. Over all I am a bit more calm, comfortable and confident with the car.

Cheers Cody Burcher