Interesting Dave.. Greg drove the Ferrari when he started as he found that the most reliable. Brabham I know is best.. Honda blows if too hot, so Honda, Lotus, Eagle are the 'fragile' ones. BRM however I did blow up on the starting grid 1 year ago
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Today.. took a setup off GPLTD, which meant I had to drive around it on bump rubbers and brake bias, leading to some offs. But a good race on the whole; sorry for spinning at Ascari, which led to Rob's exit from a good run in the tank (BRM). If it was a Brab, you definitely could have done some re-passing
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I practically let Ray by thinking he would blow past me in the Lotus, then realised he'd just done a shift-r and was heavy with fuel.. I couldn't then repass, as my car topped out at 195mph! 5th too short! A few times I was close to the fast lap by Cookie too, which made me push (and led to the Ascari spin
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Last lap, I was right on Bob's tail, passed him into Banking 1, he passed back into Banking 2, and I was so close coming off it that I actually punted him out of it! Apologies.. I should have backed off a bit at the banking 'apex' and tried to then draft out, but I was throttling the red car for everything it was worth, as I knew it lacked top end. I was glad though that Bob could still fly across the line for 2nd (even if upside down) ahead of me! Andreas was a little behind us, so didn't pile into our wreckage, but it must have looked funny from his viewpoint as he closed in.