Whoohoo ! well chuffed with 3rd, had a great race.
Qually went very well despite not matching my PB. Was in 2nd place for almost the entire session, then Paul Richards jumped in front with a few mins left. I immediately went out and was on a faster lap, -0.5 secs in the final sector only for me to somehow lose it in final 2 turns and finish the lap .01 down
, otherwise would have nabbed 2nd place. :'(
Then to add insult to injury John appeared out of nowhere in his Morgan and grabbed 3rd place, the cheeky swine
I sat on the grid thinking that a GTC in front of me was going to seriously scupper any assault on Paul R and thankfully i was able to safely outbreak him on the first flying lap down at the end of the first straight.
I then spent the first 15-20 mins glued to Paul Richards Fezza ass hoping that he would make an error but he was super-consistent and i could only keep close as possible for lap after lap enjoying some great racing. With nearly 20 mins gone, I nearly had a moment following him too closely in sector 3 and got two wheels up on those slippery bast high kerbs.
Luckily i kept my wits about me and just backed right off and stayed straight, if i had turned the wheel it would have spat me off into a spin. Alas it gave Paul a 4 second breather as i lost all momentum before that titanic final turn.
He then kept that gap constant through the rest of the entire race until the final couple of laps where it went down to about 2 seconds and i brought it home for a well deserved podium slot.
Backmarkers were ace tonight, though Tibs was scaring the crap outta me with his off-road excursions! But he moved nicely over whenever i lapped him, thanks.
Congrats to Paul R for a great race and a well deserved 2nd place and accolades galore to Brian who was on another planet this eve with his amazing 1:26 qual pace
God knows where you found a whole extra second over us?, i thought my Porker setup pretty spot on but you must have come up with something super-clever !