You drove very well indeed Dimitar.
Mondello doesn't work for me, never had any enjoyment out of it in any of the configurations, although this one is the least worst probably.....it's just so tight, and lacking any flow to it....
However, the Elan I have always had a soft spot for, love the nimbleness and corner speed. Unfortunately, couldn't really tune the setup to be as good as normal, and the car was a little snatchy in quali which prevented me from beating the excellent time Dimitar had set. I knew the start was crucial, and although I matched the jump Dimitar made that wasn't good enough to squeeze past at all. Geoff was in close attendance for the first couple of laps, so had to watch my line, but once I had pulled away a touch I started to apply the pressure to Dimitar for the lead, knowing full well there are no real overtaking spots here and it was always going to be a case of who made the first error would be in prime position to not win.
And so it proved, following close is very tricky as there is very restricted view into the apex with such a narrow track, and I think I caught a little bit of grass wide on the right on turn-in to the penultimate corner in my desire to turn under the line DD was taking. this caused the car to slew sideways, and the pendulum effect sent me spearing off to the right as I tried to catch the car, straight into the tyre wall and armco. Wasn't great to be honest, car was now much worse to drive and slow, having developed some kind of schizophrenic attitude where it could not decide which it wanted to do more of, understeer or oversteer
. Had about another 3 spins before the much welcomed chequered flag.....
Grats to DD and Geoffers on holding it together properly.