Great race.... I was feeling good about this combo, the porsche seemed to be tailor made for this track and I hardly had to change anything set-up wise, practice started and I got a couple of laps in and my game crashed, so quickly fired it back up ran another lap time and I got connection lost.... was starting to doubt my chances of racing by this point, but got back in with enough time to run 1 more timed lap in practice and was amazed to go straight to the top.
Then came qualy and I was keen to get out and run a lap without traffic but this didn't work out as I seemed to catch it all up on my timed lap
, managed a low 1.54 for my first attempt and was happy that was all I was going to get out of it, then decided to try the medium slicks, came back out and hit a fluky 1.53 on my first timed attempt, which got me pole
, for about 5 mins until Peter beat it to put me second.
Then came the race and I found myself driving a defensive line from the second we started to the very end of the race, 40 laps with TT nailed to my bumper, I knew he was faster and had we of been a bit further down the field I probably would have given up the position to him. But we wasn't further down the field we were 2nd and 3rd for the first 20 laps and then 1st and 2nd for the rest, so I wasn't about to make it easy (sorry TT but I really wanted the win). As it was I managed to fend off all of his attacks and keep the place.
TT did smack me a couple of times from behind spinning me off track but both times was kind enough to wait for me
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There was one other incident where TT tried to get between me and the wall at the start of the long straight where we had a little contact, I put this down to a racing incident and as neither of us benefited from it I decided to keep the position. (Again TT sorry if this was my fault)
As stated by others this was my first UKGTR win and I chuffed as punch with it, specially since I had to work so hard to stop TT from nicking it off me.
Thanks to everyone involved in organising these amazing races, and congrats to
Peter and TT for 2nd and 3rd
I am shocked people didn’t like this combo, seemed to me that these cars suited this track incredibly well.