What happened to you?, Tudor.

That was an amazing race, between three of us, nearly all the way. I've reason to believe, some fluke?, gifted me the win.

Grats Pete, Tudor and all.

I run a DFGT which has no clutch so I have to use autoclutch in these cars. Unfortunately this makes the gear changes so slow that I lose time every time I shift. Because of this I usually run no clutch for quali and just lift when I'm changing up (as I would if I had a clutch) and then switch autoclutch back on for the race.

All good except I forgot to switch  I was having to be careful on my downshifts but even then the gearbox started rattling after about 15 minutes and eventually I was stuck in 3rd unable to change up or down for the last 10 minutes. I really ought to get some decent simracing kit 

Anyway, was good fun and close as always in these cars.

I'm really enjoying racing these. I turned up last night in my usual state of preparedness, i.e. none, and my 1st flying lap was a 1:53. For the next 15 mins I couldn't get within half a second of that. Qually started equally badly but the team rebuild my wrecked steed in a tad under 10 secs and I was back out again. They must have done a proper job this time as I was consistently quicker than the earlier 1:53 and bagged 3rd on the grid. I never had a run on either Eck or GT in the race but had lots of fun just hanging on to their shirt tales. Shame for GT it ended as it did but another really enjoyable race.

I was totally knackered after that never ending half hour. Practise and qualy showed that my overall pace had improved since the last time we raced these Mars bars, but that I was still over 1.5 secs behind the next quickest. As the race began I thought I would do a few laps then quit out. But due to me beating Matt of the line and later on catching up with a speed penalised Frex I was happily involved in some actual racing. Almost managed to keep both drivers at bay but that sneaky Matt caught me off-guard on the penultimate lap, the rotter, and passed me. Great fun and really pleased that I didn't feel the need to leave early doors.
Paul Ricard 2A short looks like a good track for these   

Did I 

had a run round Ricard and the long straight doesn't go with the little engines for me.

for these I like some up and down. As Murray Walker once said "This is an interesting circuit, because it has inclines. And not just up, but down as well."