That was a fun race. I joined late and was frantically trying to get the gearing setup so I could at least run flat out along the straights without reaching the redline by half way along them.
Qualified far down but got passed a few in the early laps, and gained more places by people throwing themselves at the wall / over the wall / into each other.
I eventually found myself running in 4th but losing time to the leaders until Uwe easily caught me with much faster pace. Even though he was much faster I was very appreciative that he didn't take a lunge up the inside risking everything to get past and waited until getting a clean run, excellent considerate driving.
As soon as Uwe passed I had the advantage of his slipstream and my laptimes tumbled! from 39's into 36's! I was more than happy not to attempt any sort of move to overtake (except once where I braked too late and combined with the faster speed from the slipstream I nearly ended up running us both off, just about slowed it in time though
) and see if Uwe could tow us up to the leading 3.
Slowly but surely we were gaining until 3 laps to go I lost the tow and started going backwards again. All I could hope for was to keep driving flat out and for the guys to hold each other up a bit battling for position, which they dutifully did and I managed to pick-up a tow again.
Running 4th (as Clive L had decided on a high jump competition some time earlier) now keeping a watching brief on the real fast boys in front I saw Nicky pull off right just before pit lane with a blown engine. I'd lucked in again, to pick up 3rd. Could I..........nah...........well...........what the heck........
I followed Uwe and Evil Clive trying to keep as much tow as possible and see if there was any chance on anything like a pass without sending us all into Clive L's high jump competition. We rounded the final bank in close formation, it was a drag to the finish, but there was no way to get level with them, and Uwe and Clive took their rightful places ahead with the gap 1st to 2nd at 00.039 seconds and 2nd to me in 3rd 00.245.
Fantastic fun finish to a fairly long race. Tim came through to be the 4th and final full distance finisher an honourable 44 seconds back after getting caught up in an earlier incident. Good run Tim.
Congrats to Uwe and Evil. Commiserations to Nicky, not a fair way to go out for you really after running so long up front.
Great fun.