Was a wise move from me to take mediums as it turns out. With no practice, and having large oversteery moments in quali, I followed Legzy's advice. "Softs might last but wear will be high." I took that to say, you'll crash and burn with your level of talent. So mediums it was and I couldn't lap with the pace of the front 2 early on. Then spanner drafted me and was passed. Got him back a lap or 2 later using the draft back and when Legzy had his run in with the kerbs I was well happy with 2nd. But I guess Apex had the softs as well as he was getting quite lose and that enabled me to catch up and eventually to get passed. Funny really, but I enjoyed tonight's race
And only 5 thousands of a second separate Apex, mine and Legy's fastest lap times.