Race Day Videos

Below are videos from the races that Alex has completed so far in the MR2 Racing series. As he completes more races, this page will be updated.

 

Brands 8th November Race 1 Part 1 - First half of the first race from Brands Hatch and Alex is starting in 7th. He loses a couple of places in the first lap or so but soon regains them. He then has some clear track(and clear visibility) ahead of him so slowly begins reeling in the front pack. See part 2 below for the outcome.

Brands 8th November Race 1 Part 2 - Second half of the first race where Alex had managed to catch up with the leading group. You can see he slowly picks off some of the cars ahead of him, one by one, to get up the order. In the end he finished 4th, a great result seeing as he was 9th at one point.

Brands 8th November Race 2 Part 1 - First half of the second race, and after initially getting blocked into paddock after the start Alex loses 2 places but regains them by the end of Druids. A few laps later Alex can be seen going around the outside of the 3rd place driver who appears unaware Alex is on his outside and unintentionally squeezes Alex off the track onto the mud, resulting in a spin. Alex loses around 30 seconds and is frustrated (apologies for the language) but gets his head down to try and make up for lost time.

Brands 8th November Race 2 Part 2 - Second half of the second race after Alex got eased off the track and spun in the first race, in this part he gets his head down and manages to catch up with a few of the cars in front which passed him when he lost time from the spin. It was in this period that he set his fastest lap, the second fastest lap out of anyone any only 2 tenths off the fastest lap of the race.

Snetterton 19th October - Race 2 Part 1. This is the 2nd race of the day where Alex has a fantastic battle for 4th place with Jason Jesse (red car) and Sam Maher-Loughnan (blue car). The 3 of them change places amongst themselves well over 10 times throughout the race, getting incredibly close to one another the entire time. Alex says this is the best race he’s had so far in the series, see for yourself what he means. Watch Part 2 below this for the second half. See the full report of the races here.0

Snetterton 19th October - Race 2 Part 2. This is the 2nd part of Race 2 where Alex has a fantastic battle for 4th place with Jason Jesse (red car) and Sam Maher-Loughnan (blue car). The 3 of them change places amongst themselves well over 10 times throughout the race, getting incredibly close to one another the entire time. You can see at one point Alex out-brakes himself at the end of the back straight and manages to hold a huge slide, but goes grass-tracking. Thankfully, he didn’t lose too much time! Alex says this is the best race he’s had so far in the series, see for yourself what he means.  See the full report of the races here.

Pembrey 28 & 29th June Nippon Challenge - Best Bits. Graham Poultney of X-SPEC Motorsport generously made a production race spec Subaru Impreza WRX available at cost price for me to use for the race weekend at Pembrey. I really enjoyed racing a different car, especially something with some power for once (260bhp in this case). As well as the extra power it handled quite differently to the MR2, with a tendency to slight understeer, so it was a great learning experience. I was on road tyres (against most of the other cars on semi-slicks), so the car moved about a good bit increasing the feedback it gave me. Here’s a selection of some of the best moments from the weekend. See the full report of the races here.

Pembrey 28 & 29th June Nippon Challenge - MR2 Roll. In Race 2, the two cars in front of me had a minor coming together, somehow causing the orange MR2 to roll over in what seemed to be a freak accident. Luckily, they were both OK and I managed to avoid them, but it was a scary accident nonetheless. See the full report of the races from the weekend here.

Rockingham 7th June third meeting. The Race Part 2. I worked my way back up after missing the gear, having great battles with everyone along the way. Had a couple of excursions, one at 1:50 in the video, but I didn’t lose any time or places doing so. It was a really good race, see the full report of the meeting here.

Rockingham 7th June third meeting. The Race Part 1. I’ve split it up into 2 parts so it fits onto YouTube. This is Part 1. I started in 6th place and had a great battle with the front 7 cars for 2nd place. I got up to 3rd at one point, but at 3:45 in the video I missed a gear coming onto the banking, causing me drop to 7th. See the full report of the meeting here.

Mallory Park 26th May second meeting. Race 2. Started in 6th place but put it in 3rd gear on the grid, rather than 1st, dropping me down to 15th by the first corner. I managed to fight my way back up through the field throughout the race, picking off the cars in front of me one by one. By the end, I was on the back of the leading pack. See the full report of the meeting here.

Silverstone 27th April first meeting. Race 2. Started in 5th and worked my way up to the front a few times, before someone lunged up my inside causing me to take avoiding action and drop back to 5th, at 3:25 in the video. From there on, I had a superb battle for 4th place, swapping places around 9 time with the blue car in 3 laps. See the full report of the meeting here.

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