It took me a quite a while to get my head around the GT, but I'm pretty sure I'll race it full time in the next official season, I'm starting to enjoy it.
Anyway, that was a great reward for a very long afternoon of racing; started at 5pm with the Petit Le Mans, and got second place in split 2's Corvettes despite one of the Ford GTs (accidently) attempting to take me out... twice!
Once that ended I hopped straight into this event, just in time for qualifying. I did a couple of laps just to check everything was okay, having only turned maybe 4 or 5 practice laps total over the weekend, then went off to quickly grab some food.
When I came back I was astonished to see that I was still 4th on the grid.
Start went okay, with Dmitry eeking away ahead and me just about managing to pull away from Baz behind. I had no idea how much fuel I'd need so, having worked out that the race would be about 45 laps I decided to switch from my usual strategy of going very long in the first stint and doing a short middle stint to work out when my second stop should be, to stopping at the end of 15 and 30, knowing that the first stop would tell me how much I'd need for the second, and the second would confirm that or reveal any necessary tweak.
That worked perfectly, taking 40 at the first and 35 at the second, which turned out to be spot on.
The only real excitement I had was when Dmitry spun in Eau Rouge just ahead of me; I anchored up and took to the runoff by the endurance pits exit but heard a sickening sound as I clipped his car and saw the 4x contact come up. Pulled away carefully and by some miracle the car seemed undamaged; Baz managed to go by whilst I was still getting back up to speed, but that only lasted a lap.
The only other excitement came from two of the times I lapped Russel's Ford, when he switched lines right in front of me trying to be helpful. Stop that.
In the end I was really glad when the race ended; my left ankle is seriously stiff after three and a half hours of almost solid racing.
Next race is the last one for me as I'm off on my travels after that.