Gutted about the turnout, but as it turned out me, Paul H and Mike were very close in qualifying so made a race of it with us three at the front.
I absolutely adore that car. It's been a while since I've done any laps in it and it just all came flooding back. I think it's the only car in the game that I can really feel feeding the throttle in and feel the limit on the brakes. Seems a bit less knife-edge than before as it was fairly hard to throw it off without trying to be too eager with the throttle or throwing it around like a loonatic.
Shame that the car is mostly wasted in the public series with only a half and half series available as this car is made for road courses, such a waste to put it on an oval.
Anyway, to the race. Qualified on pole with the top three within a tenth of each other. But I was scared about making a pigs ear of the start and hadn't practiced it at all (plonker), so I put it in 1st and when the lights came I press the throttle pedal. Obviously a very slow technique and sure enough Mike and Paul went by before I'd even made it around the whole of T1. My brain for some reason hadn't engaged the idea of using the clutch pedal with it already in gear!
Matter not as I then got to chase Paul as Mike edged away in the lead. After a fair few laps I finally got close enough near the end of the lap and with the slipstream on the oval passed Paul into T1 around the outside as he went for the defenders line. After that I chased Mike, but he was just too quick for me. Closed a little in the pits, but not taking tyres seemed to hurt my lap times in the second stint and he edged away further into the lead.
Apart from one lap where I missed the braking marker for T1 and had to turn around at the cones I didn't have any spins or offs, so pretty pleased with that.
Awesome job on getting the length of the race correct almost down to the second Oily. It was 2407 seconds long so very close.