A very pleasant evening for me, and for several reasons:
1. the end results: making it twice to the podium is not one of my habits (to say the least)
2. race 2 unwinding
Race 1: Good start from P5, being able to follow the Geoffers+MattR7 train. Big help from Erling who did not start too well, so I was an easy 3rd in the first few corners. Then at the end of the straight MattR7 decided there was no reason to turn left and gave me his 2nd position.
It took Erling some time to recover from his start and that allowed me a 2 seconds cushion that I managed (hardly) to maintain for about 10 laps. Only now do I understand that Erling was not trying too hard... I must say that I completely forgot about the race 2 start order (as could be seen when I qualified for race 2
) so I was happy with my 2nd position.
Race 2: One qualification lap and I was surprised to get P2... I did not look at the chat window until just before the start. So I realized very late that I goofed.
Managed a decent start so that I could park on the side and not hinder anybody start.
Then it has been a very tough race for me! Geoffers can go up the ranks as if he was alone on the track, not such a thing for me. Every overtake is difficult, so I ended up tired and sweaty.
The
with MattR7 & Tony have been tough, specially with Tony as we swapped positions several times, and some paint as well.
I am not good at following closely and overtaking, but this race did teach me quite a bit about this, and was quite rewarding as well.
Thanks all for a good racing evening.