I had to stop winning at some stage!

Hi All,
Gareth and I were in Scotland at the weekend, taking part in the RSAC Scottish Rally, based in Dumfries. It was the fouth round of the Kick Energy Fiesta Sport Trophy. It was our first rally on gravel in a long time, and a return to organizers pacenotes. The day started of very slowly. We dropped 15 seconds to Kris Hall on stage one, and were on the backfoot already. I found the pacenotes very hard to adapt to and they were a lot different than my own. However we hit back with a fastest time on stage 2, the spectator stage at Heathall, allbeit by only one second. On stage 3 another fastest time, this time by two second. We headed to stage 3 with the intentions of taking back a good chunk of time. A crippled car pulled out in front of us in the stage, and because of the extremely bad dust, we were held up for miles. We lost around 35 seconds, and plunging us down to fifth. We returned to service, and a new set of front tires, and the plan of action was to go like hell on the last two stages to try and claw back the lost time, and at least get into 2nd. We were 22 seconds behind Matt Edwards in second, going into the penultamite stage, and with a scorching time, fastest by 9 seconds, and beating Matt by 20, it left us with very little left to do on the last stage. A time 14 seconds clear of Edwards, put us well into second place, a job well done. We were very happy with the day, and I was happy with my pace. If only we weren't caught behind the slower car, perhaps things may have worked out differently.
We have a weekend off this weekend, but we return to tarmac the following weekend on the dreaded Isle of Man International Rally. This is a round of the Kick Energy Fiesta Sport Trophy UK series, the British Rally Championship, and also the Irish Tarmac Championship, so a lot is at steak. Tarmac has been our strongpoint in recent times so hopefully it will be a good points haul from there.
Also this week, we have confirmed to go to Rally Finland WRC, as it is a round of the Fiesta Sport Trophy International. It's a great boost for me, and I cannot wait to see the classic stages around Jyväskylä, and re-commencing my battle for the FSTi crown.
In the mean time, fitness is top priority, so that's were my efforts will be drawn for the next week or two until the Isle of Man.
Please come back for more updates
Craig