Very good race that tonight.
I was off pace in qually & with just seconds to go leaped from 5th to 3rd, at least giving me a chance to hassle pole sitter TT & title rival Apex.
Apex was struggling with tyres early on I guess & was missing every Apex (no pun intended & BTW, sorry about the kiss
), it still took me a couple of laps to pass. TT was 2.5 secs clear already but I was able to real him in after only a couple more laps, but could I pass, could I even get to a position where i could look at a pass... no chance, so decided to pit very early for a splash & dash, as I could feel I was bleeding time I'd need later.
As expected I had gained a nice little 14 second advantage after TT & Apex had pitted, but by now my tyres were gone & the advantage just evaporated way too easily.
TT caught me with 5 laps still to go & was past easily, Apex was on me a lap later (at about the time NSFast surrendered the lead as he finally pitted). I just tried to stay to the inside line & make as good exits as I could. It worked up until the last corner on the penultimate lap, when I span myself & had to flash a deserving/patient Apex through.
Wish I'd changed tyres!
Congrats to TT & Apex on the podium & great to see Spanner making a comeback
(hopefully H@L will soon too
)
& the Championship winning driver is ..... is a bit too confusing to work out for sure!