Phew, what a tough endurance race that was, but superb action for most of the entire race.
Had an excellent 4 car battle with Bernie, Pribeiro and Pops for about 45 minutes with us all glued to the back of each other and swapping place
Great fun and great clean racing by all. I was all over people in the midfield but kept getting dropped by all on the straights as i was running too high a rear wing.
Was actually gutted when first Bernie, then Pribeiro a lot of laps later pulled into the pits for their stops as it meant the on track battle ended :'(
Continued on for another handful of laps trying to keep the pesky Pops behind me in his swift little Vertigo (great driving Pops!
) but my tyres were seriously shagged and i couldnt wait to pit for new boots as i was losing at least a second a lap.
Stop took 52 secs in the box, and came out about 8 seconds behind Bernie and about 5 secs in front of Pribeiro so knew there was more action to come and i had to keep pushing.
I soon closed the gap right down on Bernie and we enjoyed another great battle for several laps with me literally glued to his rear bumper but i just didnt have the legs down the straights to draft past.
Unfortunately after yet another fight through turn 1 i caught Bernies rear quarter and it was just enough to send him wide onto the gravel, really sorry mate, it was totally un-intentional as i was really enjoying the scrap
I then had to push hard to the line as Pribeiro had closed down on me again from the contact but i managed to pull out another 4-5 second gap and then couldnt believe my eyes when i saw Leuven stranded in the final turns
with only a few laps to go. Bad luck mate
Brought the car home in 5th NGT which wasnt bad
Congrats to my teamies for some great driving and top work to Mathas and Jon M for their superb wins.