First, let's concentrate on the positives:

Michal Orlowski, finally adding another EFRA title to his 2015 crown after many years of being the favourite and coming so close. Well done buddy, I am proud of you and the effort you put in all coming good!

Tris, Seeing all your personal dedication yield in trophies and always being on hand to help all drivers is something you should also be proud of.

Schumacher Racing, A great team performance and showing the big steps that Schumacher keep making to produce great race cars for professionals and customers alike.

The Kaerup family, Another great win and awesome to see the father and son bond.

The Netherlands, Its a really beautiful country and Jumbo ranks in one of my favourite stores.

The hotel, The breakfast was the best I have ever had! 
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Now, to critique my personal performance. I did not have a good event for many reasons, I think. Being constantly frustrated at driving the track was a big one and not having any testing prior to the event only condemned this feeling. You would have thought after 6 days of driving on the track that I could learn it, but every time I left the track I felt more nervous about it or disappointed with myself. It's the first time in many years I felt a complete disconnection with the track and worried about completing a clean lap, let alone a clean run (and when I did do a 'good' lap...it was quite far off the pace and showed the track required extreme confidence to produce lap times).

Have I lost it? I hope to think not, but it does make you think!
I could drive quite fast only a couple of weeks ago...so what's happened now?

Well, I don't think I can ever get a true answer for this unless I go back to the RACO track and spend a week there to get properly dialed in and see if I'm still too slow (maybe I will do this one day). I think it's a whole host of reasons... Some of which are very well written on Neil Cragg's post. I don't think I need to add much apart from their fact that I support your comments 100%.

I feel bad for the Track crew at RACO, because it's not really their fault, Yeh some jumps could have been improved etc, but unless you are told to do so.... you won't. They applied for the Euro's and got awarded it. Was it the right track for the Euros? No it wasn't, but again if you read Neils report, it will make sense.

I was though, disappointed that the layout had been used many times before, with the drivers that did go an do extensive practise really getting a huge benefit on a very demanding track. At least with the likes of RHR you can change the layout with the simple rearranging of some pipes and at least with dirt tracks in the past, the dirt can change the whole track feeling. I think for big EFRA or IFMAR style races, the track should be at least 'different' to what has been used in the past.

I love the European Championships. Having built a career off the back of successful ones. They have a very strong place in my heart and I am willing to try and help them to be successful in the future. Possibly EFRA needs a panel of drivers or former drivers to make such decisions on the chosen track and its rules or guidelines to hold the event.

I think now its time that we need to rebuild the brand, increase the appeal, create an atmosphere and embrace its champions.

Thanks for reading..... I will be back stronger next year!

Shout out to these guys for being by my side. Much love!

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Thanks to Big man Paul Wood on being my driver and sleep preventer (worlds largest snore)