I had another excellent race with lots of battles with other people and managing to actually overtake 5 times from 10th on the grid to finish 5th.
I haven't run any practice in GTR2 for a couple of seasons and it makes it really difficult to have a decent setup or qualifying position. I have to do my best to make up places in the race. I once again qualified mid-field and as usual made some daring setup changes between qualifying and race, e.g. increasing rear anti-roll bar 100% from qualifying up to 50 or 60 and doing a few other things to stop the big lack of steering I have using 900 degress on my G25.
This time my big setup changes worked and I felt the car was probably a second faster than my qualifying time on softs. But as it was hot and Dubai (a usual killer on tyres) I went for medium slicks all-round. This both worked and didn't work. I was able to lap at my qualifying pace on mediums (so it showed my pace on softs would have been about a second quicker), so no faster, but I was able to lap at that speed the entire race. This helped me get 2 more positions in the last few laps as others struggled on their tyres.
I needed a bit less wing (I was on 2-8) as Blunder's identical Fezza was a lot faster on the straights than me which made it hardest to get past him. I think 2-7 would have been better, which would have still been more than him I think but just enough to have that extra little bit.
Well done to Legzy on his podium (I think I should take some credit for that right Legzy?
) and well done to those 2 old codgers at the front.
I always think Dubai suits both the Porsche and BMW, so was very surprised to see TT manage to set such a good pace in his Ferrari.
UKGTR league racing rocks!