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Another great weekend of racing in the books!

First, congratulations are due to Nigel Maidment (NigelT here on the Forum) for winning the POC Boxster Spec Championship for 2017! He and Anders were only 1 point apart going into this weekend and Nigel clinched it by winning races 1 and 2. Well done!

As for me, I struggled in practice on Friday and Saturday morning to get up to speed, but by race time I was finally back to my normal race pace. Nigel, thanks for the help!

I started 7th of 14 cars in the first race and had a poor start so I was happy to simply maintain my position behind John Monmeyer in 6th. While the front four cars checked out ahead of us, 5th (Andrew Weyman), 6th, and me in 7th battled hard for 13 of the 14 laps. I was able to get into 6th only to be passed back a few laps later when I slid the car out of Turn 5 and John was able to maintain his momentum to pass me on the back straight into Turn 8. Weyman did a great job defending the whole race against attacks from both John and I to hold onto 5th.

I started 7th in the second race and got a great start moving up to 4th. Again, 1st-3rd checked out ahead of us while 4th-8th battled the entire race. A very fast driver started at the rear so he worked his way by early in the race and then after successfully defending my position for 10 laps, I was finally passed and finished 6th while still under heavy attack from 7th (Ana Predescu).

Unfortunately, I didn't race Sunday since I got sick on Saturday night and felt so sick that I packed up, drove home, and spent Sunday sleeping and feeling like crap on the couch.

A well deserved and hard earned shout out to John, Andrew, and Ana for a weekend of close and clean racing.

Lots of good photos and video coming! Here is a pic of the Boxster in the paddock.

[NigelT]

Thanks, Tom. Sorry to hear you got sick. For the record, Anders was 4 points ahead of me going into the weekend. And I only managed 3rd in the second race, which turned out to be good enough since Anders pulled off with a couple of laps to go after making his way from the back of the field to 2nd after an "interaction" with the lead car. I have some pretty cool video of the first race I can show you at some point if you're interested. Anders put us all in our place on Sunday with a clear victory. I finished 3rd again. A satisfying end to a great season of racing. Next year is going to be even more competitive with some fresh, and apparently very quick, entries to the BSR field.

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Originally Posted by NigelT

Thanks, Tom. Sorry to hear you got sick. For the record, Anders was 4 points ahead of me going into the weekend. And I only managed 3rd in the second race, which turned out to be good enough since Anders pulled off with a couple of laps to go after making his way from the back of the field to 2nd after an "interaction" with the lead car. I have some pretty cool video of the first race I can show you at some point if you're interested. Anders put us all in our place on Sunday with a clear victory. I finished 3rd again. A satisfying end to a great season of racing. Next year is going to be even more competitive with some fresh, and apparently very quick, entries to the BSR field.

Nigel, thanks for the corrections and congrat's on the Championship.