Really enjoyed that, thanks chaps!
After a pretty horrific 2nd and 3rd laps (sorry to anyone i put off, my sincere apologies) I dropped to 6th after qualifying 2nd! I suddenly had a bogey corner - T1. Was fine all week but suddenly lost all confidence in it. I had hoped to keep up with Gio and apply pressure. But i found myself fighting for confidence. The first few laps of a race is a bag of uncertainty. First, you want to settle in as quickly as possibly and be smooth. Secondly, are the other guys around you going to be a threat?
So settling down requires a bit of reasoning. Can i be consistently fast or am i going to start persuading myself that i'm getting in their way and should lay down and roll over? I guess i was a little nervous as a new member that i should show my best side. So i felt quite red faced after my 3rd lap.
After that (a couple of off's) i had everything to prove and set about clawing back my dignity. Started a charge and my confidence returned. Had some great battles and fought back to 2nd. inherited a couple of places. But by the time i got there Gio was 11 seconds ahead already, I fought to bring it down but had to yeald and take care around lapping some decent chaps and lost out to some 8 seconds all together but at least i was still in 2nd which was by then, more important.
Ok, looking forward to Mehiho, should be a thriller. I haven't raced that track on GPL since 2006 in the 68's. And it all came back to me very quickly indeed.
