In practice for this race, I seemed to hit a wall laptime wise, at 1:26.7. In qualy however, by some miracle I managed to shave over a second off that. Wish I had a replay, as I would like to know what I did to accomplish that..
Still, Clive was ½ a sec faster, so he ran away with pole. Shaped up to be a close race, as qualifying times were close for most of the field.
Slotted into 2nd at the start. Had to stave off the advances of Tony's Anglia in the early laps, until he ran wide at T1, giving me a small buffer. Some laps later, he apparently ran a whole lot wider, as the gap jumped from 2 to 16 seconds. With Clive disappearing up front, I resigned myself to a lonely remainder of the race.
However, little less than halfways through, I caught sight of a dust plume up ahead, with something red in it..
Mr. Evil had taken a dive into the kitty litter, and I thus inherited the lead. Tried my best to make him work a little for it, but as expected, he clawed his way back and retook the lead, when I left the door a little too open at T1. Could only do my best to hang on, hoping for another mistake, which sadly didn't materialize..
Grats to Clive for a deserved win. Commiserations to Tony, Roger and Matt - hope you can avoid that Gambia trip !!
Nice to have Bill back finally - and seemingly in great form
This race concludes my Daimler drives; back to more nimble machinery in the remaining races
Cheers,
Erling