We’re coming off our best finish of the season — a 14th-place run that gives us a little more breathing room in the standings. With four races left, we’re all but locked into staying at the Amateur level, which I’d call a modest but meaningful milestone.

Today’s race in Belgium feels like our last real chance to climb any higher before shifting our focus to saving money for next season. In a way, this is our “all‑in” moment — not bad for someone who’s only 40 races into their career.

We’re riding a three‑race streak of Top‑20 finishes, and now it’s all about inching forward every time we hit the track. A 14th‑place finish or better would give us some much‑needed breathing room over the teams chasing us in the standings. Montreal is exactly the kind of circuit where we should be able to show what we’re capable of. Time to find out whether we can turn consistency into something bigger.

The last race in Italy delivered our best finish of the season, buying us a little breathing room from the demotion zone. If we can ride that momentum into today’s race and put up a Top 10, then we can finally start believing this team is turning the corner. There’s just one complication: rain is in the forecast, and as we learned the hard way last week, Ian Wilson handles wet conditions about as well as a shopping cart on ice. At this point, the only thing that can slow us down is Mother Nature herself.

At the end of the Germany race, we finally clawed our way out of the first demotion spot with a gritty 18th‑place finish. With a little breathing room at last, we’ve poured everything into upgrading as many parts as possible to boost our chances today. Italy brings the threat of rain hanging over the entire race, but if the skies open up, I feel confident—we’ve built a strategy that can thrive in the chaos.

After the mess in Australia, I’m honestly running out of ideas for how to drag this team forward. At this point I’m treating it as a hard lesson and accepting that demotion back to Rookie is a real possibility. We’ve crossed into the second half of the season now, which means the pressure’s off and the desperation switch is on. So I’m throwing money at the problem and hoping something finally clicks. There’s still time to save this season, but as Yogi Berra put it, “It’s getting late early.”