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My race was indifferent in the end.
I'm happy with my out right pace, given the effort Greg has been putting into the mod recently I felt that my qualifying and race laps were 'fast enough' not to have embarrased myself.
However I made a glaring error at the start when I failed to pull in front of Axel while I still could which gave him 2nd on the run into Curve Grande.
Later in the same lap I had 2 scary moments into the chicanes.
The first was caused by a drop in frame rates just as I was trying to spot my brake marker for the 1st chicane (Carlos Disco'd and the message caused the stutters). The 2nd time I thought I'd slowed early enough to give Axel space given I felt his braking was poorer than mine.
I didn't give him enough and ended up firing up the inside - this resulted in a slight bump so I pulled over and waved him back through. Only looking at the replay I had so much overlap (100% pretty much) that it actually turned out to have been a legitimate pass!
As a result of the contact I was a bit flustered and made a series of mistakes. I think I dropped as low as 5th before pulling myself together again.
It was only through pure bad luck on Axels part that I ended up re-gaining 2nd as he had some sort of engine problem from the start of the final lap and totally lost his top speed.
I assumed it may have been urgent fuel saving so performed an out braking manoeuvrer into the final chicane while I still had the speed advantage.
Well done to Greg on a solid performance and bad luck Axel.
Congrats to all the finishers as well, Monza 1000km is actually fairly tricky I think.