Well, hope you're happy boss!
Great race. Was genuinely shocked (as in went half a second faster than ever gone before) in qually where I nicked 2nd place at the death. Ochers is so tough to pass at so I did more qually runs than normal.
I thought I'd be a rolling roadblock at the start but with Busi pressuring TT, I pulled a gap. Jon was long gone and I had no intention of even trying to race him as he was just so much faster, but was happy with how things where. Then Busi closed up and I thought he would breeze past, but my extra engine gave me the lifeline I needed and stopped him getting close at the end of straights. Then Jon messed up all by himself, and had exactly the problem I had at Anders in S7....long first gear, stuck in the gravel for 30 minutes
Pitted and made an 8 second lead. Busi duly closed up again and we had a cracking fight for the lead
. It was really, really close and I ended up making a costly error, giving him all the chance he needed to make a pass stick at the end of the back straight. He then gifted it back to me when my engine scared him!
Great fighting so close, I was overdriving at times (read: off the track
) and thought you would snick past, but 2 laps from home you gave me some breathing space, and I could
just hold on. You were easily faster , just the pitstop and qually that made it so tough for you. I went from a previous best of a 29.4 yesterday, to a 28.6 during the race today! So am really, really pleased, on what is a track that really should have seen me off the podium. Now as long as my team mate finishes some races, maybe the manufacturer points will be healthy too!
...watch out for ts trying to bribe you away from us
...
I only asked to make sure you were paying him enough to buy food with, get the odd new engine etc. We know what you tightfisted pansies are like!
Grats finishers, and Busi on great racing. Tough luck Jon, was your race really. :'(