I thought that was a friggin awesome race,
so glad I made the effort considering how crappy I feel.
I was really struggling in praccy and early qually getting flashing stars before my eyes and feeling out of sorts. But then I got miffed that I was only hanging on in the top 10 and must have given myself an adrenaline surge as I suddenly upped my pace in last two flying laps and leapt to 6th? From 10th, and crucially, ahead of goldtop
Despite making what I thought was a good start, I got totally pounced on off the grid by about 4 cars! But they then all got tangled up in turns 1 & 2 and I was able to pick my way through on the tail of geoffers. He was unusually cautious for the rest of the lap and that allowed the pack to reclose. Had a good little scrap with animal ed for a few laps until he made an error. Closed on geoffers and alessandro and wondered why geoffers was slowing, nearly hitting his car mid track.
Then had a very long hard chase of alessandro up ahead, always within a couple of secs but not getting much closer. This lasted about 15minutes! He then lost it under braking on he downhill section and I was 2nd !!
I kept it clean and charged on with GT a further 5 secs back for about another 10mins, but then with about 5 laps to go he blinking upped his pace and really started piling on the pressure just as I was hoping to wind down to the finish.
he got within 1.8 secs at the very end despite me setting two quick laps! Great stuff GT
Really enjoyed that, epic feeling for me personally to get a 2nd place in an RSR at Imola after fighting two very quick opponents
Congrats to Matteo on the win and Gt on the podium and all that finished
