Grats to the fast guys and the podium, I could see that things were pretty intense up front.
I was tempted to take the 917, but had a couple of drives still spare in the 2nd group, so thought I had better use one of those. Other than assuming that the groupings relate to the speed potential of the cars I really have very little experience to work with
It was a little disheartening during qually to find cars absolutely blasting past my car when I was already redlining in 5th!! Then I checked who was driving what, and realised that maybe there was a reason, lol.
Dan's "unorthodox" starting technique had me worried for a moment, and I thought I might become an interested party, as he turned sharp right to test the concrete wall
. Luckily I avoided any contact and chased after the 3 hot shots in their 917's......a little optimistic on my part as they were simply too quick on the fast bits, and not slow enough through the corners either!!
Matt got his beast up and running and pulled a pass heading towards Masta…….a place where I was not lifting, but I discovered that Matt does!!! Some very squidgy moments in the underwear department and much frenetic wheel twiddling kept me out of the various barriers and scenery, but allowed a recovering Dan to sweep past.
Dan later retired and Matt had a disco, so I was promoted to class leader with Tony still running but a loooong way behind. Gradually settled into the handling of my Porker and was beginning to push the envelope a little when I got a SnG for cutting the track??!! If anything I had extended the track by running wide ( very wide!!) at a couple of corners.
OK no probs, plenty of time in hand so did the SnG and whilst I was waiting for Arnold to wave me back into the race I worked out that if I pitted in 2 laps time I would have completed 10 laps and would therefore only need 1/3rd of a tank of fuel to get to the end
2 Laps later cruised into the pits...no need for tyres they were all good......select fuel on pit board and put in 1/3rd of a tank...………………..Those of you who are switched on will realise that I didn't put in 1/3rd, I only topped up the fuel to the 1/3rd level, which is not the same!! ! lap later I realised that I was going to be 1 lap short of finishing EVEN if I got lapped. So another splash and dash which brought me out a mere 8 secs ahead of Tony!! When all of the pitstop malarkey started I had been 90secs ahead!!!
I suspect that Tony had issues because I was able to ease away slightly over the last few laps and hold on to my place...but it was buttock clenching time for a while there!!