Well, I guess now is a good time to reveal the "secret" of my blazing start (5th on grid -> unchallenged 1st into and through T1), and how I was able to easily fend off Evil for the first 6 laps.
My stupid mechanic forgot to put the race fuel in. :doh:
Yes, he deserves to be fired, but as he is
also the team owner, manager, tester, driver, chief cook, and bottle washer, it's "complicated".
So... here I am on the grid, looking at the 5 gallons indicated, going, "OK, Einstein, wtf is Plan B, genius?".
Plan B was get ahead as far as I could as soon as I could, and hope the 5 gallons (and a splash and dash when required) would make half distance, then with the normal Mexico attrition I still might make a few places up in the season standings (I think P2 was mathematically possible going into this round).
So the first part of that worked better than I'd expected. As for the rest, no one else cooperated at all. C'mon,
four wide on the way down to T1, and everyone made it through shiny-side up? Work with me, people!!
I joke. GJ all, way to make me pay for my
dumbass mistake, grats to Clive for the win, and Tim for a well-deserved season title.
Oh, and I don't recall ever seeing this in the "Mechanical" section of a GPLRA report:
27m13.660s
Dean Logan 69X - spotters reporting:
the car slows down and stops.