Guess what? my race was ruined by my pitstop!..no really
Turned up late after a last minute pass. Promptly stuck the car 6th on grid with minutes to go of qually.
Race was excellent, great battles with Matts Pantera, Legzy in a fezza and a clutch of 914/6's all duking it out.
By mid race distance it was time to pit and i was running a strong 5th place. Pitted all fine, sat there as i watched them lower ye-olde fuel nozzle into the bonnet (all very cool!) ...then i sat there and sat there...for 3 minutes thinking, hmm, they've modded old fashioned fuel filling to make it take a while.
Then thought, hang on...are they waiting for me to kill the engine, put it in neutral etc? (This was my first pitstop in P&G3 and first using my manual shifter)...what i didnt know was my buttons had been remapped
Quickly fumbled over the keyboard until the engine cut, then 'glug glug....yippee!
I emerged 2 blinking laps down on the rest of the field :'(
Had a long dull second half of race with nobody to fight, nearly threw it all away with 3 laps to go when a big lapse of focus meant a hard whack on a wall but the feisty 914 held together...phew.
Dragged its carcass home for 8th place, one lap ahead of someone who had an even worse pitstop
Cracking track, good turnout for a valentines night enduro
and what a great little race car the 914/6GT is
Top work by Geoffers and Goldtop, great pace up front
and Stig blagging 3rd meant that was probably mine for the taking as i was 2 cars ahead of him at the pitstops!
