Saturday 2nd Feb - Silverstone National

A busy day today working with 3 cars / drivers. Patrick 'Patch' Mason out on cicuit for the first time in his saxmax race car, Kevin Norville in his porsche GT3 and Katie's brother Stewart in his Fiesta race car.

Patrick had a superb day and was really flying. Initialy trying to go a bit too fast into the corners but by the end carrying massive speed through them all. we had the Saxo taking copse at 85mph in fourth gear - not bad at 13 years old!!

Kevin's day was cut short by an overly worn front left tyre which started to delaminate. It was very worn at the start of the day. For safety reasons we stopped driving at mid day. Kevin's using a bit too much lock after the apex of the corners at the moment which is contributing to the wear. Over our next few days training we will focus on this to make him not only smoother and faster but wear the tyres out less quickly.

Stewarts Fiesta was fresh back from Daniels Motorsport having had a winter 'service' Unfortunately the car had a sticking right rear brake which was causing the car to 'handbrake turn' at Brooklands - the only real left turn on the circuit. This caused Stewart to have a spin on his first lap which we initially thought was cold tyres. I then drove and the car spun so violently that the steering wheel pulled itself out of my hands. In trying to recover the spin the wheel spun and hit my thumb which now has a masive blood blister under the nail. I wont post a pic! We couldn't fix the problem on the day so had to pack up.