After some surprisingly good results in the previous races, yesterday was a sobering wake up call, when I found myself 3.5 secs off the pace
Car ahead of me hesitated off the block, causing me to go off the throttle and bog down. Thus John & Roger slipped past. Believe John had an off, as did Franky, so reclaimed two places that way. After a couple of laps, Roger had a wobbly moment coming on to the straight, losing just enough momentum for me to pass him. He tried a comeback at the following brake zone, but overshot completely on the grass. Bob then trailed me closely for the next number of laps, until I ran wide and had to concede my position.
Chased him for the next many laps, while keeping a vary eye on the mirrors, as John was sneaking closer. As Bob mentions, we each seemed to hold the advantage in different parts of the track. Around midrace, his driving became more ragged - possibly tyre wear starting to kick in. When he next ran wide in the slow section after T1, I could reclaim 6th. It held to the end, although Franky got uncomfortably close on the final two laps. Also caught a rejoining Matt at the start of the penultimate lap, but regrettably he made no more mistakes, so passing him was out of the question
Grats to the podium; am quite in awe of the laptimes achieved by the front runners. Have some Ati-inspired setup tweaks I have used with success on most cars, that I simply forgot to apply to the Firebird. Might have made me a little faster, but no way 3.5 secs faster
Cheers,
Erling