To be absolutely honest I was not even expecting to complete this race, and in the last few laps I the Lola did everything it could to make that prophecy come true.
Having spent the weekend at the Goodwood Revival and travelling home on Monday, I was just about overloaded with motor Racing and strangely felt somewhat spent and knackered.
( I don't think the consumption of beer and late nights chatting about everything from simracing to biscuits could have had anything to do with my tiredness
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I jumped on the server and took the Lola ( only because there were Lolas at Goodwood and it seemed appropriate??) Gradually tamed the beast during practice and qually although I did get confused with the fuel levels, so I just filled the tank to the brim...and hoped it would be enough??!!
Somehow I held Postal outside around Paddock and I hope that it was fair as I felt no contact
and I stuck it tight into Druids before I checked the mirror . Erling was a little way behind , so I pushed hard to build a gap whilst I had breathing space.
I knew GT would be coming past at some point given the lap times he was posting earlier. I did try to defend for a lap or so, but I was only delaying the inevitable
and I ran a little wide at paddock on one lap so i just left the door open for him and waved goodbye.
Postal loomed in the mirrors before long and once again mistakes on my part left the door open and by the time he was past my tyres had seen their best laps
For the last part of the race I was fighting the unpredictable handling and tyre wear issues and each time I ran off track Erling would close and I had to summon enough concentration to put in a quick lap to regain some space. But fatigue from Goodwood and lack of talent meant that I could only do that for 2 laps before it all went wrong again.
I just managed to limit the mistakes and retain 3rd spot. I would not call that managing the gap Erling!! although it might have looked that way to you
grats to GT and Postal who were way faster than I could compete with and hard luck to Erling who might have nicked 3rd if i had made just one more excursion into the boondocks!!
