I race in a Toyota MR2 Mk1 only racing series. Am just coming to the end of my first year of racing and it's been pretty good. In my first race of the year at Silverstone I was leading until some muppet lunged me, messed up and knocked me back to 5th. Since then I've had a couple of podiums but also some monumentally bad luck with engines - at one race meeting the one we had in the car was slowly dieing, spurting out all its coolant meaning a huge drop in performance and some bad results.
The event after that we had a newer, reconditioned engine in, but only 3 laps into qualifying it was making the most horrendous rattle and performace was so bad it wouldn't rev at all, and I mean at all. Just as I was coming into the pits, it conked out so I pulled off the track. Turned out a big end bearing was shot which bent a conrod, damaged a valve and also did the head in a bit. So that was the end of that "race" day, didn't even get to actually race.
So now we've got another newer engine in and this one is better. We had a bit of an overheating problem with it in Quali and Race 1 at the last event but got it sorted for Race 2 and had an excellent battle.
There's loads of pics and vids on my website if anyone's interested -
www.alexgassman.com
