What a massive weekend!
Big congratulations to the level headed team Richmond / Paris taking out the 1st outright crew trophie.
Richmond 2nd Driver outright - Paris 1st Co-Driver outright.
They had a points lead at the end of day one and just drove smart and safe and didn't make any mistakes to take out the event win.
Adam and I had mechanical issues, when I smashed the front diff on a launch on the back track and had rear wheel drive only. We pushed on for two more events, but one of the smashed gears got caught in the crown wheel and punched a hole in the diff casing. Therefore I missed out on three events and Newton missed out on five events.
So we loaded the GTR onto the back of the H2 Hummer and headed back to Melbourne, arrived at Racepace @ 6:30pm and finished the diff repair about 10pm, arrived back in Shep @ 1:15am. Big thanks to Ian and Ben @ Racepace for offering to do the work after hours.
We managed to survive the 2nd and 3rd day right up until the last event when the crack in the diff housing started to leak again as Adam pulled off. What are the odds?
Even with missing three events I managed to claw back up to 14th Driver outright.
Since we could no longer get into the top ten crew points, Adam and I decided to go for single event wins. So we pushed hard and got three single event fastest times each.
The rest of team SAU / Wang had lots of success with everyone getting a mentions for various events and classes.
Congrats to all.