Today, 26th of November has been a very good day to go down in Ministry of Speeds short history. After missing round one of the "Desire of Patience Tour", we were immediately on the back foot. After an unfortunate working shift in real life for Kim Gjerde, we suffered another set-back with Kim not taking part. After three weeks of hard thorough practice we felt ready for the challenge proposed to us, with the FZR and Blackwood GP Reversed. We were however dissapointed with our quallifying session, which saw us start in seventh place.
Ministry of Speed were to be represented by Andy O'Brien and Ronn Schlieker, who had been on trial with us for the past three weks. Ronn was previously a member of The Danish Racing Team(TDRT) and Racing Minds previous to that.
Andy started out the race from seventh on the grid and had a superb first lap with some very risky maneuvers paying off to see Andy lie in fourth place. An incident ahead seen n!faculty come into some difficulty and loose a few seconds and Andy took full advantage of this moving into the final podium position. Andy didn't have it all his own though, as he came through the fast sweeping right hand first corner, to meet an XFR reversing towards him in the middle of the track. Contact was not avoidable and the time loss was about ten seconds.
Andy pushed and pushed and was later rewarded with his efforts to take the lead in the later part of his stint. With a reasonable amount of fuel left, we taught we were well placed in the lead, until Alternative.AXLE3D had a huge amount of fuel and were able to push for the lead during the pitstops.
Ronn took over lying in second place, ten seconds behind the leaders, with just a five second advantage over Conquest Racing and n!faculty. Ronn drove a supreme final stint, rewarded with a new PB, and second place on the podium for Ministry of Speed. We are delighted with this result and we are all looking forward to Kyoto and the full twelve hours of it!