Fine run by Dean to score P2. He and I swapped about a number of times in a thriller. That was fun.
You and Dean did have a good race going with each other. I think that's the only reason I was able to stay close for the first several laps. Every time one of you ran a clean lap I'd lose about a second.
Comes Lap21 and with about a half dozen seconds in hand over Dean, I dipped into the Bosch Kurve. Sadly, I'd lost my bearings on the differential between the roadway, the grass verge and the stout stone wall on the outfield. I kissed the wall which propelled me across the road into the barrier opposite. Spinning wildly and with all manner of expensive sounds going on, the car righted itself in the proper direction and I proceeded just inches ahead of Dean. It soon became apparent that I'd suffered some pretty nasty damage to the engine and first Dean then Greg breezed by with ease. Only managed another half lap before it gave up entirely.
That was a shame! I thought Dean hit the rock wall there too at one point but he just slid very wide through Bosch. Nice save Dean! You had a podium finish easily Doni had you kept it together. I had no way to challenge you for position. I'm glad you got some points and got some good driving time. Looks like you had a half decent weekend with some good seat time.
I curse these eyeballs sometimes. In our race today, things started to get a little foggy from about Lap08 onwards. Very hard to focus. Comes the end of March, they'll have a combined total of 130 man-years worth of wear and tear on them and they just don't work as well as they used to. Now that I think of it, a lot of things don't perform as they once did.
That's not good. I'm starting to suffer from it some myself. I had a couple wrecks practicing Friday night because of eye strain. I wish I had been here since the beginning. I've been driving on the computer in some form for 20 years now. At 45, I've noticed my eyes aren't as good as they were at 35. My reflexes are a little slower. And most troubling is sometimes I lose all my mental focus. I definitely don't have nerves of steel anymore. I'll go flying by a brake marker occasionally not even realizing it until I'm 100m past. I find it very impressive how fast some of the guys a good bit older than me are. At 55, I'll likely have to drive with the Privateers if I can still see and concentrate. I miss getting on a good roll where I can do nothing wrong. I've only been able to do it once in 4 months of GPL online.