Unlike Croft, Bo collected his car mid week and arrived nice and early for round three of Time Attack.
Once again sharing a garage with DCE Motorsport, the whole Nielsen clan were on hand with support this weekend.
The session began with warm up in the morning and once again Bo had not managed to get any testing in before Snetterton so was unsure what to expect from the car.
"Preperation for round three didn't quite go to plan! But i managed to find someone to look at the throttle map, which transformed the car from being un drivable at Croft, to being the best it's been in two years."
Bo soon put down some fast times. With a 1.31 in warm up, and a 1.26 in practice, Bo Nielsen and his Astra VXR were well on their way to proving a point in Time Attack round three.
Qualifying rolled around and the Forge sponsored VXR was flying, setting a 1.21, ahead of the previous class winners and other Club Pro Two Wheel Dive cars.
The unexpected lead put Bo into first place going into the final.
All was running smoothly as Bo battled it out with Mike Cantello for the top spot when the VXR made an un scheduled pit stop.
As Bo coasted towards the pit garage the team new something was not right.
The bonnet of the Astra VXR was opened and Bo quickly found that the alternator belt had come clean off. Fortunately no damage had been done, and the ever prepared Bo Nielsen had a spare belt which was quickly replaced.
Bo headed straight back out with only minutes to spear, pipping Mike Cantello's fastest lap with a 1.20, taking Club Pro Two Wheel drive and his first win of the season.
Reflecting on the race afterwards, Bo admitted he had not been looking forward to Snetterton:
"I expected Snetterton to be a straight fight between Romain in the CRX, Charlie in the S2000 and mike in the VX220, so I was shocked to get the podium top step at my least favoured track in this years championship."
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