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Round 3 is held in this weekend May 31 and June 1.

Practice session is held in Friday and Saturday morning. [30min 6session]
Saturday afternoon is Qualify and the Final is held in the morning of the Sunday.

Weather forecast said that it will be rain in Friday and Saturday morning.
I think my machine and my own driving style will be able to show a good performance especially in the rainy condition.
So now I hope to be the rainy in all three days.

Even if it won`t be rain I believe that I can get the good result.
Of course "the full course"is longer than other west and east course.
There is all kinds of  corner and a lot of overtaking point are included.
The driver have to keep their concentration to all corner and it is not possible to win if even a little mistake.

But the full course has a lot of fun of driving and race tactics.
I have a lot of things to do but I`ll do my best to get the my first win ! 

               

The final race was different situation compare with the qualify.

I thought that final race become more competitive than qualify session.
It is vitally if I missed the start or lost the position in the chaos of first few laps.

This race was held in the early March and the race day was not so hot.
I tried to keep the tire temperature as high as possible in the formation lap.
I placed my machine in the 2th position and concentrated to the signal.
Then signal turned on and soon turned off !The race was started !!

My start wasn`t bad but 3th position driver [NO34] show the great  start, and I lost one position at the first lap.
The chaos of first lap forced some driver to retired at the first corner.
So the yellow flags were waved at the first corner.
The first corner was the only passing point of the Suzuka East course.

We had to keep  our position each other until the yellow flags were canceled.
After  4 or 5 laps ,the flags were disappeared.

Soon the 2th position No34 driver passed the car number 1 machine, and become the top.
The order of top3 was NO34-NO1-me.
These three machines have a good race pace compare with other driver,so we raced far from other competitor.

But in the middle of race, the pace of the [No1] driver who was in front of me became gradually slowly.
His tire was wore and it seems to very uncontrolable.
But his machine has good straight speed and I couldn`t catch him easily.
No34 driver could run clearly, so the difference between him and our became almost 5 seconds.

I managed to catch No1 at lap 16,but repassed at the first corner of lap 18.
I tried to catch him again but it was to short to overtake him.

I could get my first podium, but there is a lot of problem I have to solve.

Race photo will update soon.

The first race of 2008 season was held in March 9 at Suzuka East course. Most of the driver who finished last year championship in top 5 moverd up to other category.
It is essential for me to finish at least in top 5 .

The test session before the race,I could always keep my position in top 5. 
There is almost no difference between my lap time and top time.But it meant that the difference between the behind drivers were almost nil too.

Qualify session was very competitive.The Top time was 55,396  but  16th was 56,394 !
16 cars were included in only one second !
I could get 2th grid and it was my first front row strat !
But when I recorded my firstest lap time,I missed a bit  at the first corner .
So I think I could get the pole position if I could control my car perfectly.
Suzuka East course is very short and narrow ,so it is very hard to overtake other machine.And straight speed of my machine was not so good compare with other machine.
The good qualify position was essential to get to the top.

Actually there was a bit miss, but the 2th grid was enough to finish in podium, and of course win.

To be continue to the report of the final...