here is my race report:
qualified P3, a pb by about 0.5 secs. Very pleased with the lap time
The BRM and I are becoming better friends recently.
The BRM was over-steering like Tiff Needel was driving it, but I was quite fast here.
P2 did not take the start and got a blinder off the line and passed Mr Tway I think for second place. Running in P2 I was pushing very very hard and only loosing a second a lap to Hristo. This was good but the guy behind was faster and pushing me hard. I thought he was making an overtake into T2 and gave him a lot of room but he backed out. Even though he had a second a lap on me...it was not possible to overtake (I blame the rear diffusers
) I actually pulled away a little, but ran wide over the grass in T2 and found myself in P3.
as I did not have to make a pit stop, I knew that I'd held the second place man up enough so that I'd re-pass him as long as I kept to within 10 secs.
Sure enough, with 8 laps to go, he was 8 secs behind. I started to get closed down but then pulled away as I guess he made some mistakes. Anyway, I started cruising for the line and as I passed the start/finish with 2 laps to go, the petrol started to run out
Annoying as I'd over-filled by 4 laps. Still, I was lucky to finish as I was often in to low a gear and revving the beejesus out of me green wagon in order to keep the pace. I regularly over-fill for these races by 10 laps or so to be sure not to run out, but I wanted to be as competitive as possible here as I really smelled a good result.
After running out of petrol, I was gutted...head in hands, weeping gutted. I felt robbed I tells ya! But then joy of joys I still made the podium, so that was a nice consolation.
As a side note, this race actually gave me a workout! My arms actually ache from all the hacksawing of the wheel that was going on. Especially in qualy, where the green machine was regularly sideways.
Ryeman