Wow, can't believe it! My first UKiR league win.
Gotta say thank you very much to Brendan for the setup. I was comfortable with my setup tbh, but thought I'd give his a go to see if I was missing something and immediately went 0.5 quicker and then I got a brilliant slipstream off Picnic (thanks again) in qually to put me in an incredible 4th with a time I could only dream of, 1:47.4.
Rolling start was fine Darren. Close at the start but all quite sensible and we settled down into it. After I got into 3rd I tagged onto the back of Darren and Brian. Couldn't possibly go any faster but comfortably held on to them with the aid of the slip stream. Just let them fight it out and I couldn't believe my luck when Darren cocked up T1 and took Brian out with him to leave me an easy 1st place.
I was in a daze at the front on my own then for a bit with Mike only 2.5 seconds behind. Thought he might close, but he didn't. Then I foolishly switched from F1 to F3 and noticed Brian was still with us and closing very rapidly. Well I went as fast as I could, stayed ahead of Mike, but with 2 to go Brian caught me. I used all my racing experience to keep him behind and jammily held onto the lead to take my maiden win.
Nearly managed an incident free race, but picked up a 1x with 2 to go at the fast chicane. Grrr.
Shame for Brian and Darren tbh as they were quicker than me, but I'll take what I can get thanks.
I'm sure Brian must have had enough of winning by now anyway.
Shame about the small turnout again. Must say the combo was not great, but it was different from anything we've done before in the Mazda, but I doubt that had much to do with the number of participants.