Simon for a guy who'd never driven the car I'd say Alan was mighty impressive; as someone who spent my last two events starting from the back due mechanical issues (minor in my case) and making up 8-12 spots in 6 lap sprints I understand what a feat you guys pulled off. You absolutely need to pull of as many passes on the first two laps to have may chance of stay with the front group. I suspect there where some people who got passed in places they didn't think it was even possible to pass.

I am curious as to why you went up on the front spring rate rather than working on the rear to cure the oversteer. Was it a case of undoing a prior change or a case of that was the only way to get as big of a change you needed?

Finally while it's obviously nicer to dominate I sometimes think that scratching and clawing your way to the front can be more satisfying. Of course it's probably just the relief of having salvaged a decent finish out of a total dog pile start to an event.

Tom