What an absolutely cracking finale for the last GT race of the season !
Amazing pace, and close fighting throughout the whole qually session. Was gutted on my last lap at session end when i was 0.229 up with only one corner to go and ran out of fuel :'(...would have gained 4 places to 8th?, but pleased all the same with 12th considering it was my first outing in the delicious Legends Maserati
and the fierce competition present
We had a race team of 3 Massa's on the grid which was great to see
and TT set the field alight with his blistering pace.
Race started great despite a scary moment up at turn 2-3 where a couple of GT's ahead of me had contact and went off in different directions as i threaded through after some deft braking
Then had a charging pair of Sharks in Simon and Aagramn keeping me honest while i did my best to catch Baracus ahead. This status quo remained for about half the race length with Aagramn staying within a second or so behind me and me not quite able to close the gap on the front 8 cars. One slip and he would have had me but i kept it quick and consistent and eventually eeked out a 6-10 second gap.
I then caught a recovering Leuven and we proceeded to have a cracking chase for the last third of the race when i kept him honest and stayed on his fin for lap after lap, always within 1 to 3 secs behind.
He then put a wheel wide up at campsa and i steamed past but he stayed glued to me and on the following lap pulled off a great inside overtake on me up at Werth and got his 8th place back on the last lap of the race. I crossed the line about 2/100ths behind him.
A corking race. Seemed i was fighting one shark or another all eve
and was pleased with a top ten finish in such illustrious 21 car company.
Well done to our TT for his cracking 2nd place and Adam in also his first GT and Massa outing for 14th
Congrats to Jeff on his win.