Great post EvilClive, made me chuckle
sounds like one of my normal pitstops
Great race that, really enjoyed it and felt like an endurance event with pitstops and different strategies
Qualied well, setting new PBs and sitting behind the alien front rows.
Race start showed I really need to practise and improve my starts because despite keeping the car at ideal revs, I was gazumped by about 4 cars within the first 50metres
Spent most of my race in the top 8 and enjoyed a few short battles. Ed was my closest rival running about 5 secs behind upto lap 15 when I made my stop.
The pitstop went very smoothly, all done in 38 secs and I felt chuffed until I remembered my strategy - I hadn't wanted to take tyres onboard as my meds were in good condition!...my ace master stroke to gain places became a lost place or two
but still slick for fuel and tyres.
To compound my woe I caught seniordan on the lap before Eds stop and it cost me 2 seconds behind him and I watched Ed emerge from the pit lane just a few hundred feet ahead
Ed was on softs and soon pulled out a gap in the last few laps.
Finished a decent 6th or 7th, not sure which as the leader decided to blow his engine on the sf straight and I couldn't see a thing through the smoke until I hit his car further down the straight after crossing the line(please don't do that in future!!..others are still racing) don't know if Ed hit him also but he came up as a DNf at the end
Congrats to the Italian podium