i'm gonna start with a complaint
if we are going to use variable weather (which i am a fan of) can we at least make sure it flipping rains when it says its going to rain for the next 3 days on the weather forecast! I wasted 2 hours today practising for a wet race here and compromised my enduro setup for it, only to have a completely dry race
..and i dont normally get that sort of spare time....grrr.
Rant over
First half hour of race was fantastic in a brilliant duel for 9th with L Galluzzi? in a shark Modena. I was all over him in most of the braking zones but he kept leaving me for dead on the straights and we had a great duel with Spanner keeping a steady pace a few secs behind. But then guttingly, Galluzzi disco'd right in front of me.
What a shame as that looked like a race long battle on the cards. I lost a bit of concentration after that let down and spanner closed up. But then he pitted really early and i was left on my own with a 9 sec gap to Jimmie in 8th ahead. I took off a couple of secs but i got a bit bored on my own and took too much kerb in that fast left hander and got spat into the armco. Splitter gone and front damage...got called in by pits half hour earlier than planned stop. Bugger :'(
Threw a load of fuel in to get me to end of race and got repaired, losing 69 seconds and dropped to back of field from 9th :'(
It was a lonely race from then on with only GTCs for company and finally finished 11th. One more lap and would have been 10th as Jimmie ran out of fuel in front of me and i think even TT did too ? but JM was too fast as usual and finished a lap ahead !
Well done Jon
Great drive by Legzy as well from back of the grid to finish in top 10