UKGTL Season 13 The Fifties - Monza - Sep 30

[SpecialKS]

Good one for me too although I was chanceless against the power of the Maseratis and Ferraris,
but I had to choose the Jag because I wanted to keep my last Aston drive for Spa or Bathurst.
After a stop & go penalty in the opening stages I had to outrun Bill again, apart from that a very
quiet and lonely race.

Still loving these cars!

[BillThomas]

Also not my favourite track, the mismatch of concrete sections on the banking seems to be an inherent problem with all the old concrete banked tracks (eg Brooklands) - as they aged sections settled at different rates.

That said, it was very interesting. Prior to the race I couldn't string together 2 consecutive timed laps. Running last at end of first lap, Kurt had pitted.  That gave me the incentive to press on,  Kurt was catching me at a fast rate and passed me on one of the banked sections.  I put in a sequence of 3:16 laps a couple of seconds faster than my previous PB. I started to reduce the gap to Kurt who I guess had backed off. in an attempt to close the gap even faster I started accelerating earlier and then lost it on exit of the first banked section, spun hitting the barrier almost flat in fifth.  When I came to rest I saw a Tyre needed replacing, made it to the pits and had 2 min stop to sort it all out.  After that ran through to the end finishing 3 laps adrift but with a PB into the 3:15s.