Grats to Tris, Dean and Arf for the podium places.
Well that was an entertaining race for me. I could have taken a 3 litre car, (probably it would have been the Honda) but decided to see what I could do with the Eagle Climax. Axel had also chosen that car and was fractionally faster in qually, but I was running race fuel, so I knew that I was at least "on the pace" of the non 3 litre brigade
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Got a good start and jumped Andreas, but the sheer grunt of the bigger cars allowed them to pass me running down to DD
There were a couple of incidents in the early laps and I gained a couple of places until I was getting a tow from Bagrupp and Andreas, with Phil and Fran threatening from behind. Phil powered past on the straight but I was able to brake later and did a run around the outside of Double Droit!!!
I was amazed to get away with that move and emerge unscathed....big thanks to Phil, for holding the inside line I think?
Gradually I was picking up places, but it was obvious that I lacked outright speed and I became a bit of a parasite, willing to attach itself to any 3 litre car for a slipstream. Tris recovered and blew past me to chase Arfx3 and Dean, but I could not match his speed even with the tow. Then I came across a recovering Arf…...the rest of the race I was on the limit trying to hang on to his tail pipes.
He was able to power away on the straights, but the baby Eagle was quicker through the corners and I could close the gap again. But.. there was just no way that I could get past unless Arf made a mistake.. and he did not ( would not! ) make a big enough error. lol Great driving Arf !!! Thoroughly enjoyed the battle
, and ran in 4th...no champagne