Whoohooo !! My first win in a long time
...since last time i won at this track
Had a bad qually session, with first a CTD then traffic on two of my flying runs, leaving me in a less than great 8th on grid knowing i was quicker than that.
I took the whole of the countdown time just to make my mind up what setup to run and at the last minute opted for my dry setup with a tad more wing...it worked a treat
Race start was all action with me, Spanner and Picnic running 3 abreast up the Kemmel straight !
I was so busy watching Spanners meandering 997 that Petes SEAT arrived from nowhere!...just glad i never changed lines at last minute
Took me a lap or two to shake loose and get into a rhythm but then i started to bang in some fast laptimes and caught several cars quite quickly. Simon gave me a rabbit to chase for several laps and i was starting to set fastest race laps. Once i got by Simon, i had about 5 seconds to make up on Busi and Purdie up front but now i had the car really flying and was banging in fastest race laps about 2 secs quicker than the front man
I caught Andy's 997 and then actually started to get slower as i got mesmerised watching his car in front and feeling some pressure from Busi behind. This went on for several laps until i got closer to put some pressure on the leader, and followed Purds up through eau rouge. I saw his car bottom out with a shower of sparks half way up and that seemed to cause him to understeer off onto the slippery kerbs where i saw him have a hefty race ending impact with the Belgian Armco !
Unlucky mate
Busi came back at me a couple of times near bus stop but then i could pull out a gap around the rest of the lap, and in the final lap had clear air behind me by a decent margin, even allowing me to slow around La source enough to watch the lap counter go down to zero, meaning i didnt have to do another lap
I was ecstatic to cross the finishing line with a win at my favourite race track in my favoured car, especially in tricky conditions
Congrats to TT for his 3rd place and Busi in 2nd.