The first race was a struggle to come back after the two Tims cursed me before the race for going off at The Loop and so I did... twice in two consecutive laps!!!
I got lucky both times, bouncing off the wooden fence and quickly continuing, but the gap to Evil was about 4 seconds after the 2nd off, so I didn't believe I'd manage to catch up, let alone bother Tim who was 1-2 seconds further ahead of my teammate.
I kept pushing though and once the slipstream kicked in, I managed to pass Evil on first attempt, which resurrected my optimism that perhaps I had a chance to challenge Tim for 1st. And so it happened, but then I had to make sure he won't be a threat in the remaining 2-3 laps.
It became obvious that he had less than optimal gearing and despite getting my slipstream was unable to make any serious attacks, so it was all settled.
The 2nd race was a continuation of the final laps of the first one, with Tim again not geared too well and struggling to keep up despite the slipstream. We had some great side by side racing early on though and I'm sure it looks nice on the replay.
There was an interesting moment when I noticed Evil getting a good run on Tim on the exit of the esses, so I tried to time moving to the right on the straight before The Loop with Evil's attack, to give him additional slipstream and rob Tim of his. It seemed to have worked quite well and Evil went into the corner side by side with Tim, but what happened afterwards only he can tell.
Tim was left chasing me on his own and for the reminder of the race I managed to keep around a 1 second gap back to him, and bring it home without problems.
Oddly enough, the Cooper slightly slower for me, but the setup wasn't as polished as the one I had for BT7, so the lap times are definitely not a sign of any chassis difference.