I think that was my first win ever on this circuit, was never really good here.
Qualified with a pb 2nd and thought it was lucky, was sure sbg's gonna just drive away in his BiT and 997s will eat me for breakfast on that long straight. Then F430 held surprisingly good through the corners and exit oriented setup made it competitive on that straight. NOT against BiT, though.
First few laps brought us together with sbg, but on different parts of the track. He gained 0,5 s on that straight and I gained the same through the Carousell corner. After some laps sbg made a mistake and I got through. I don't think I could pass otherwise as I could come close in all the wrong places.
Then I was controlling my gap to API and was ok as it was slowly increasing to 10 seconds, then dropped to 3 after some errand in the sand.
Was losing 1 sec towards half so decided to pit and change tyres, add fuel. Gap was again close to 10 seconds, so expected to stay in front of API. Stopped in my stall, just pressed Enter. And ... forgot I had it set to pit closer to the end of the race.
Too much fuel and too much time lost, of course. Came out of pits and after API also pitted the gap was down to 3 seconds. Guess he also took soft tyres as the gap was dwindling down to nothing.
Last 20 minutes were a total chase with an occasional GT1 and GT2 car to make it a bit more interesting.
Only just managed to stay in front, that was some of the hardest work I did lately.
Great chase API.
Great win in the Marcos, JR. Am dragged to that car but will resist it one more season as I want to drive C6R. Then The Beast again.
Grats pody and all.
Bad luck to the discoed and crashed. Too bad MJ, after your performanse here I expected us to to make some team points.
P.S. Press "TAB", Matt...