Results and Replay Posted
What kept you!?
@Legzy: I think it will be in the gear ratio. Mine was geared to rev its nuts off going down the hill, which was the only part of the lap where I got any breathing space from John.
I must thank John on two counts; firstly for taking the big Cobra and secondly for waiting for me after he had given me a very light tap.
I assumed that John wanted to race, since he had handicapped himself, so I'll find out later if I need to apologise for getting in his way all race.
The 427 seemed a tad quicker on the first part of that wonderful straight but the Daytona just walked away from him after the start/finish line. As Graham Hill said, "I'm good at straights.".
After John and I had made contact, John fell back behind Federico and Evil. But I knew he would be back. Don't think that they had the special wide bodied version of the Daytona.
Then, on the penultimate lap, I made a mistake and John took the lead. But he apparently wanted to gift the race to me and slowed as we approached the kink on the straight. He had miss calculated and I was already hell bent on getting to T1 anyway, thanks to Daytona power. I made an awful job of the last lap but nothing big enough to let John have another rethink.
Damn close call though +0:00.096 seconds!
Grats to John and Federico and wd all finishers.
And thanks to Matt for a great race format.