The Gordini may be faster, but it appears to have an unbreakable magnetic attraction to straw bales.... as I discovered after a couple of laps
LOL At least the straw bales didn't cost you any Thornton Dollars!
@Fran Well done that Soggy!
@ Phil thanks for the update. Thankfully my calcs have matched so far.
As for the race, I made a good start and took the lead, only to mess it up later on lap one. That dropped me behind Uli and Alessandro.
Uli's Lancia looked to be a bit of a handful and it wasn't long before he took to the grass at Druids.
I then had to chase Alessandro, who very helpfully also went off, thus putting me back in the lead.
At half distance I thought that I had it but Uli was probably waiting for the fuel load to come down and give him back the car that he qualified with.
I had had a 7 second lead for quite a while but suddenly that was gone and there was nothing that I could do to stop Uli driving past. I did my best to stay with him, hoping for another error, but there was nothing coming.
In the last part of the race I had no brakes at all at Druids. I suspect that Uli was much the same.
Grats to Uli and off to Hockenheim for some practice. Don't think that I have done that one in 55s.