Sorry to hear about Ziu's arm. It does sound like he has some serious problems there. I think we all hope that your arm recovers Ziu, so that you can compete in future UKGTL races.
Second item is that Bob should be given 3rd place, as he waited for me to pass only 100mtrs from the finish. For some reason he thought that I was Matt and that he owed Matt the place? Hope the results can be adjusted.?
After the first 2 minutes my race descended into a lonely battle between me and the Nurburgring. The Ferrari GTO is a very easy car to drive but lacks the outright grunt to compete with the Porsche and the Alpine in my hands. So I was cruising along just watching the gap back to Matt and Bob very comfortable in my 3rd place. Then Ziu quit with his bad arm and I was gifted 2nd place, all I had to do was keep it steady. There was no chance of catching Erling unless he totalled his car against a random tree and I was able to compensate for a quicker lap by the cars behind and regain a couple of secs if I needed to.
Last lap and I had around 9-10 sec lead, so no pressure.....................until I double downshifted and locked the rear wheels, sending the car flying into the undergrowth and stalling the engine in the process!!
Matt went past and I rejoined about 5 secs behind himm with Bob only 2 secs behind me. I gave the Fezza a good thrashing on the last lap, hoping to catch Matt before the main straight, but although I closed up around 4 secs on that straight I could not actually catch him. Then in the final chicane I tried to brake just a little too late on worn tyres and poked the nose into the Armco...and stalled the engine yet again!! I had to wait as Bob went past and thought I had gone from 2nd -4th, almost hero to almost zero!!
As I powered the car up onto the finish straight Bob slowed and pulled over allowing me to sweep past, as I said above. 3rd place was Bob's and I deserved what I got for making dumb mistakes!!
Grats to Erling and Matt, but commiserations to Ziu and his arm.
