What a fantastic race
...and such little reward
We really need more points allocation with so many top drivers now in the league...us privateers need encouragement against the works teams
Had a good qually, getting a hard earned 15th, even with a 1:25.6
, the places were very tight down to about 20th.
Race start was okay, kept tight as i could on 2 24-7 cars ahead of me, one got out of shape up at Mcleans after a couple of laps and as i tried to sneak up the inside i think he came back across and i went off grass cutting like a hovercraft
Re-joined a few places down and got back into the mix where i got another nudge down at Melbourne? and lost more time and places, ending up about 23rd !
Then chased like a man possessed as knew my setup was good and gradually got past a stack of cars until having an epic battle with Jan Dujis in his Saleen
, t'was gripping stuff, glued to his rear wing for lap after lap without any contact, just great clean racing. His Saleen was handling amazingly but i felt he was struggling on certain corners and kept the pressure high until forcing him to brake a tad late down at the Foggarty Esses chicane, and i stroked past giving Jan as much berth as possible
I then shot off like a rocket after Madd and caught him after several laps but getting past him was going to be incredibly hard as our cars seemed identically matched on the track and its so hard to overtake here. We had a cracking fight to the finish line for something like 15 minutes (it seemed)
, thoroughly enjoyed another great and clean fight. I tried all sorts of lines and braking points to get him to make an error but he drove sublimely
Brought the shiny new Legends 550 in at 15th but felt like a top 6 fight the whole race !
might have been higher if it wasnt for the early incidents
Awesome race
Well done to the podium guys