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Jun 17, 2008 at 15:57 o\clock

Round 3 race report -Final-

by: MakitoNakagami   Keywords: racing, driver, japanese, makito, nakagami, FJ1600, suzuka, 中上, 牧人

Sunday final race was fine weather.
I woke up early and went to the circuit because FJ1600 race was the first race of this race day.
The race was going to started in the 9:30.

When the formation lap was started, one machine stopped from the drive shaft trouble on his way to the starting grid.
That machine was going start from 3th position. 
My start position was 4th but there are only two cars in front of me.

I set my car to 4th place and it was inside of the course.
3th position was vacant and it was good for outside starter especially 5th and 7th.
Red lamp was turn on and soon disappear, race was started !

My start wasn`t good and it made 5th and 7th drivers easily to pass me before we reached the first corner.

But of course, I was only few inches away from them.

I kept 5th position in the first lap, but I missed a bit in the spoon corner and I lost one position.

In the second lap,I was following the top group.
But I missed the shift down at degner corner and it increased the gap from the top.

Unfortunately same trouble occurred again when I tried to shift up after the hairpin corner .
This forced me slow down and I lost more 4 position.

I charged harder to catch up with former car.

3 or 4 machines were fighting together and I could catch up with them soon.

I tried to overtake 9th machine at the outside of the chicane.

But I lost the car control a bit and I have been passed by the machine in 10th place and 11th place.

Lap 5,one machine stopped at degner and two machines crashed at spoon.

So my position was up to 8th.

I was still charging hard the 7th machine.
But he blocked me hard and I couldn`t pass him easily.

But I could get into his slipstream at the last lap main straight.

I turned into the corner more faster than ever before to try  to pass him at the out side of the first corner.
So I couldn`t turn into the second corner correctly.

But fortunately that machine[I tried to overtake at the first corner] spun out and I could get the 7th position.

The last accident happened at the last lap chicane.
4th place machine crashed out.

Luckily I could finish at 6th.

A lot of trouble happened to me in this race.

But most of them were my own mistake.

This race was the worst race of my career.

Jun 9, 2008 at 16:37 o\clock

Round 3 Race report -Qualify-

by: MakitoNakagami   Keywords: japanese, racing, driver, makito, nakagami, FJ1600, suzuka, circuit, 中上, 牧人


Round 3 result


Qualify - 4 th     Final - 6 th
 
I could not show the best performance.
I have to apologize to all people who are expecting me.


In the qualify session,
I had pretty good pace but I couldn`t find the space to run my own pace.
 
It began to rain a bit when the session was started.
My team desided to set the dry tyre, and I was the only person who chose it.

Then the session was started.

The east section was almost dry condition but west section was completely wet .
And the rain was seem to become harder.
I judged immediately to into the pit to change the tyre.

The team gave me the great speedy pit stop.

After rejoined the session, I tried to push as hard as possible because my tyre was still cold compare with other drivers.

But my first time attack became the top time at this point despite my still cold tyre !!

But after the first attack I got into the traffic, and I couldn`t  run on my pace.

I tried to get the clear lap when I was blocked the slower car.
But I couldn`t make sufficiently gap.
Because I didn`t realize that my pace was overwhelmingly good compare with other machines.

It was very good opportunity to get the pole-position and I had to get it.

But I lost it because of my miss judgment.