Two excellent qualifying sessions followed by two terrible races.
In race 1 the Abarth's peaky power delivery meant I got swallowed up by a herd of Gianninis at the start, recovered to 2nd place by the end of lap 1 but Manfred was 3s ahead by then. Tried hard to close the gap but every lap I went quicker, so did Manfred & the gap remained at 3s. About lap 5 I got Variante Alta chicane wrong & got a cut track followed by another a few corners later & an S/G. Pitted at the end of the next lap & dropped to 6th but was quickly catching Red Mist with a lap to go & hoping to recover 5th place when I got DQ for ignoring the S/G.
Race 2 again got swamped at the start with the Mini not getting off the line as well as the 850 Abarths. Just held 3rd in class but could not get past Suti as the Abarth had just a tad more power at the top end. At Rivazza a Simca made a rather ambitious overtake & shoved me into the gravel trap which took an age to get out of, not helped by trying to move when in neutral
. Was dead last after that & could only recover to 3rd in class at the finish.
Congrats to Daz & Manfred on the overall & class wins.