well that lived upto the corking battle royale i expected...amazing qually and race session from start to finish !
Qually fight was great with many drivers trading top 10 times and i eventually got it together to put a 2:01 in and grab 7th, albeit 1.7secs slower than my PB
How comes the track temp was so high tonight?..surely its not that warm in Slovenia at the moment? I was literally tearing up my rears after 1 outlap and one flyer ! and yet offline i could put 2-3 flyers before the tyres overheated.
Knew the race was going to be a real fight with Brian Kerr in front of me and Baracus and Mark Mclean right behind me, and thats exactly how it turned out! Was sorry to see Ginsters Disco on the line
From lap 1 the fight was a pure Morgan v Porker v Ferrari battle, awesome stuff. I managed to keep within 1-2 secs of Brian and the top 3 for about 25 minutes, at the same time fending off vigorous attacks from Baras Fezza. Then Bara dropped back in a fight with Mark Mc for a while and it was my turn to fight off a charging Mark Mc in his infamous Black West Porsche. It was a case of deja vu as i remember another memorable fight with him in that same car at this track a while back
It was an awesome fight with him pressuring me all over the track. About the only corners i was quicker were t1 and 3.
I fended him off for about 15minutes whilst my tyres got worse and worse. I was itching for him to drop back as whenever he did, i was able to close the gap back up on the front 5. But, i finally got taken by Mark Mc with about 4 minutes remaining when i just got a little wide under braking and he was able to get up the inside, which was gutting
. But worse on the very next lap when i was attempting to get back past him up the inside at T1, he got a little loose, moved in a bit and i had to ease off the throttle right where i normally floor it and the sneaky re-emergent Baracus sped by me on the outside and we ended up with all 3 of us going hell for leather down to T2's hard braking zone
Alas, they had both mugged me with minutes to spare, but i doth my cap to the pair of them and their superb driving
I had run 5th the entire race upto that point and also had kept mostly within 2-5 secs of Kerr and top 3 for whole race
The fights with Bara and Mark Mc were just amazing, best pure action race ive had for a while.
By race end my wrists were aching where i was gripping the wheel so tightly and i was soaked in sweat from the effort
My tyres were pretty shot by the time they both got me and i just had two laps to bring it home for another 7th place. Feel a bit robbed though, i shouldnt have conceded so late but they are two great drivers and i had used up all my guile trying to keep them at bay.
A corker !