360 Racing’s James Sweetnam had a battle scarred weekend at Snetterton in the latest Radical Challenge rounds.
After Saturday’s qualifying his SR3 was eighth quickest. “I was struggling with a cross wind and a tail wind through Coram and couldn’t adapt to it,” he explained.
“I had a good start in the first race however and was sixth into Riches, before taking John Macleod through Oggies,” he said after ending the opening lap fifth.
Having shaken off any challenge from behind, he started to close in on fourth placed Jason Rishover. “I had a slight touch early on and it damaged my suspension so the handling was off a bit. I was certainly catching Jason towards the end but just needed a few more laps,” he said after taking the flag fifth, still 1.7 secs adrift of Rishover.
Starting from eighth again in the second of the weekends sprint races, he managed to make a place on the opening lap again.
“I took too much out of the tyres in the early laps though and then began to struggle with the high speed parts of the track. So I started to get understeer and that led to me losing places,” he admitted.
Having lost out to Matt Jones on the third lap, Chris Short followed a couple of laps later, leaving him still under pressure from Andy Lowe.
“He shunted me at the rear and I was down to almost last place, expecting a lot of damage and I was just trying to bring it home, “he added.
He took the flag in 12th only to find the damage was small. “I was very surprised, it was a hard hit,” he said.