Some of the frontrunners were a little slow going, and that's all it takes. If someone's slow getting going, the person behind has to lift .... and that causes a concertina effect right the way back down the field. I had to lift after the Alfa in front of me was slow getting started, I know DG had to lift as a result ... etc etc. No launch control on these classics I'm afraid - so we'll just have to remain vigilant at the start.
Exactly, I was in 4th, got away okay but then had to lift as the 2nd place Alfa was a little slow and it all gets going from there, but it was pretty clean at the front, I saw no contact, of course its the middle of the pack that suffers.
Great fun, absolute hoot with Adam's Falcon, constant pass and repass until I could get ahead just enough not to be swallowed on the straight. I think that race was a good advert for sometimes combining the V8s and I4s.
Gotta say absolute respect to mgoran
, he had a huge fight with stnasky for 2nd for the first half of the race, and it was only really them fighting that allowed me to close up, after stnasky spun, he then had me to contend with. My tyres must have held up better as I was just a tiny bit quicker over the final 1/3rd of the race, but he drove so consistently it took me about 5 laps of close following to finally find an opening, and then as soon as I was ahead I started overdriving to pull away and so went slower. 2 laps in 2nd and then he had me back and drove really neat for the final 4 laps so although I was right on his tail I couldn't find a way by.
If only I could drive that cleanly under pressure for so long, I think the sight of a car in the mirror lunging towards me under brakes makes me brake a few metres too late and get a bit untidy under turn-in. Still some learning to do with this whole close racing thing