Well that was a superb and fitting last round of a great championship
Hadn’t had any practise but at least knew the track well so was able to get up to speed pretty quickly and even antagonise the top end group until eventually dropping to 6th in qually.
Got a good race start and immediately latched onto Jeffery’s derrière not knowing he was carrying some fat bloke in his car
he was glued to Flavus ahead so 3 of formed a high speed NASCAR train for many laps with Simon just a sec or 2 behind. It was great fun with only about a metre between each car but I could tell they were both holding me up under braking. (Not often I get to say that!)
Jeff eventually moved over when I got a better exit out of T2 and was heavy breathing down his neck and then I set about Flavus ahead. We had a good high speed chase for a few laps until I got past.
Once in clear air I immediatekg went 1.3 secs faster on the next lap
so knew I had good pace
Simon was chasing me in his usual relentless way but this time I was able to keep him in check and then gradually open up a 5+ sec gap
Even better, I could see I was gaining on Fmg and Alex several seconds up front. It took a fair few laps to get on fmg’s Tail and I then started applying pressure for several laps. The pace was furious and could see both he and Alex getting a little ragged kicking up dust in several corners. Then sadly with a few laps to go Fmg braked earlier or harder at t1 than he had been doing and it just caught me off guard enough to thump his rear. It should have just given him a dented rear panel but as is usual with tho slightly odd AC collision modelling, it pitched him into a half spin. :(I pulled straight over and waited for him to retake the position and saw Simon barrelling down on us. Fmg seemed to take forever to get going off the tarmac apron but thankfully we both pulled away just ahead of le Shark.
I then chased him hard to the flag for 4th
but Alex got an easy 2nd in the end when I think we could have both pressured him at the end.
Cracking race, loved it.
Two discos in the series both whilst running in top 6 places cost me badly and meant I only finished 8th overall. Shame
but had some brilliant racing throughout.
Well done to the series winner and big thanks to Jeff for organising a great series