I was beginning to feel like I had a target on my car.....
This track really has only one overtaking place at the end of the main straight and that requires some slipstreaming and demon braking. Anywhere else requires the car in front to make a bad mistake, but the track is so narrow that this usually means that you get involved in exchanging paint samples at the very least!!
I got myself and the extra heavy Lola BMW up towards the sharp end of the race ( top 5) at least 3 times. On each occasion I either got tagged by the car that I was passing when alongside, or was faced with a car rolling across the track which I could not avoid, and if I did manage to slow or avoid the first 2 there was always Greg to flip me over.
No complaints as this was a fun race, but eventually I lost the will to try yet again to recover the lost ground, even with free shift/R's. Besides, once you have done a Shift/R and get a refilled tank and cold tyres, it sort of screws up the refuelling doesn't it. My car was definitely getting faster as the fuel load dropped, so to reset yet again and drag all that extra weight around felt a bit too much like hard work.
Grat to all those who made it to the finish and the podium.
Still very much in favour of the fun generated by pit stops and I was actually looking forward to seeing how things worked out after the stops.
I wonder if where we race one of the carsets with a much bigger spread of performance ( for instance the 67's), we could simply insist that the top 3 cars ( Lotus, Eagle and Ferrari?) all have to make one refuelling stop?. Or that the top 3 drivers after 4 races must take a fuel stop?
The 71 Can Ams might work well with this and handicap that all conquering McLaren. It would be interesting to see how it affected the positions at the end of a race.