Unlucky Jon. Maybe map the lights to your shifter unit, or don't flash back
? I have mine on the far left red button.
Pretty disasterous race for me. Qualified in an amazing 3rd that I really wasn't expecting. My practice involved driving back and making it just before the start of the event, so I just grabbed the last setup (as usual) and dived right in. Quick adjustment on the gear ratios and stuff and was sorted.
With Jon in 2nd and me in 3rd on the grid I thought it was going to be a bonanza night for Team Shark. Bah! Weather! Bah!
Started fine, with TT behind me, just getting into it and then the skies suddenly darkened and it started to rain heavily. In that one lap I really struggled to hold it on track and decided if it was raining this hard I would be clever and get hard wets on straight away. Jon and JayBlue didn't and I thought oooh, might get the jump on them here by coming in first. Bah! I think the reasoning was good, but after 1 or 2 laps the rain stopped and the wet tyres were so bad that it was almost like driving on ice.
Decided I had to stay out then as I didn't want to lose another pit stop, but after a while and speaking to Jon I realised I was 6 or 7 seconds off the pace of the slicks and so I stayed out as long as I could to get enough fuel to get to the end. Well I came in earlier than that to put on slicks and realising it was VERY tight on fuel I raced 40-50 minutes on short shifting to make sure I made it to the end. As it turns out not sure that was a good idea either as I was losing 2 seconds a lap short shifting which I maybe could have made up again with a splash and dash.
Oh well, most annoyed as I had the third fastest lap of anyone in the race so a podium was a real possibility. Just unlucky. In hindsight I should have stuck to my usual rule of if you aren't falling off then don't pit to change tyres just cause the rain is falling.
Well done JB and SBG on the wins.
Bad luck to Picnic too on yet another disco.