Battle filled race for me.
Didn't get PB in qually and ended up 8th, which was far behind Paul968. I wanted to stay close to him due to pitstop strategy, but it didn't go that way.
I had some GT2 cars infront of me, and a few helped me by building sand castles. Then I was behind Gomes Silva and a long battle started. Just check the lapchart in a few minutes, the gap was always below 1s. At one point I overtook him and had to drive hard to keep him behind me. Luckily Dave said the Nissan is very reliable, so I kicked it's tail the whole race, just to see engine health being 60% at the end
, which is blowpoint
.
After many laps behind me, I thing Gomes had enough and started attacking hard, and shoot infront of me so I could take inside again and keep leading
. This happened a few times and Backo came close. At some backmarkers I lost alot of time and both drivers past me. Till the pitstop I could trail them and keep close.
I thought my stop strategy would win me alot in pits, but as this track is really slow, hardly anybody had to refill and I didn't win anything. So I had to overtake on track, which is much more fun.
Overtook Gomes halfway in my 2nd stint and slowly drove off when he made a mistake. I then saw TT infront at about 3s.
It was a matter of winning some, losing some. With 10 minutes to go I was slowly gaining and with 4 minutes to go TT went off at the last corner
. Real shame as it was gonna be a very tight finish.
Finished 3rd overall and 2nd in class, again behind Paul968, who masters Valencia in the RS. It will be hard getting him with him in this shape
.
Grats Simon on the GT2 win, Paul968 on the GTC win and Madd-RIP for the win in GT3 class