Ickx short race report on his lucky 3rd at Zandy :
Just watch the replay , thx for upload .
Well , to me qualification worked out good . 0,3sec off my PB but good enough for 5th on grid.
Considering days test results , my goals in order where:
1. watch the engines temps . don’t blow up
2. watch both left tyres temps , no wide walks on to the greens
3. try racing
the race :
as expected EvilClive overtook me at start , so I settled down on 6th.
Bit hunted then by Sam Blood till he spon. Meanwhile my engine decide to love 121 Celsius, so no way to lay on any sort of aggressive driving style. Man I lift throttle all that gently while shifting…felts more like cruising then racing.lol.
J.W went wide , pitty.
Nothing spectacular till L14 : Tim spins two times dropped him on 6th ,me lifted to 4th.
Ginsters starts to hunt me but lost somewhere at L16.
L19 lapped unlucky pitter B.Darwin.
L20 EvilClive slipstreamed Natan ,second then.
L22 Natan tried to slipstream right side defending EvilClive but touched those exit-pitwall slightly . Thatwhy he chrashed into EvilClive in front of T1.
Unbelievable ,both cars survived those heavy chrash without any damage !!! wow.
L22 still , Natan slipped twice and I earned 3rd.
L23 Natan did his fastes lap.
L24 Natan`s engine explodes. Luckily in front of the pits entry ,where he pitstoped. Wd !
L25 my so called fastes race lap 1-30-32 . wooooooooooooow.
Tim starts hunting me , so I prepared myself to eventually right side defending line on the long straight . like I did noticed EvilClive did with success during test races.
Well but Tim didn’t come that close. Slipped somewhere on L26 at least.
Couldn’t believe , 3rd in the end. What kinda lucky result !!!
Congratulations goes to J.Walters and Hristo ; outstanding !!! class of his own.
As well to Natan , EvilClive and Tim , who have been a class off his own too.
And of course big hand to winners of Novices and to all taken part.
See ya all at Monza for the last race of this great funny season.
(will modified slipstream be ready for 65mod till then ? ) that would be nice.
Regards
Nicky Ickx