And I was also looking in my mirrors at where Erling and Dimitar were in the lead up to the corner, and I thought you were being nervous of the entry by the way you were coming across to the outside line. Still annoyed I hit you though.....
Bit like Jarama, Geoff had a clear advantage here in quali, although I had run 49s in practise I just could not find the pace again last night for whatever reason. I believed this would translate to the race again in all honesty, as whatever I tried in quali I just could not get into the 50s, never mind 49s. Awesome lap Geoff.
However, we than have carnage at T1. I waited, and followed Geoffers and Dimitar, going on through on them both over the first 6 laps or so. Then picked people off as the laps ticked by, ending up in the lead with a gap to Geoffers of around 1.5 seconds. Didn't push on too hard, as I felt this was going to the hardest track on tyres so far and I wanted to save them as much as possible. I also wasn't sure what race pace Geoff would have, so was testing the water a little
. It was status quo for quite some time really, a little bit of back and forth, but over the last few laps I pushed on a little harder and pulled the gap a touch to take the win. Pretty sure that would not have been the case if turn 1 didn't go like it did though, even if i was quicker in the race than quali.
I'll be honest, I have enjoyed these cars so much more than the Renault last year, really didn't like that at all, and the catastrophic tyre wear on it was just ridiculous at times
. These were all about the setup I think, and I just lucked in on getting to a quick and stable one before anyone else in the first few races, as well as not being involved in other incidents around me at times that took others out of the running. Geoffers had problems with pedals etc early on as well, and how quick he is in FWD we can all see from the last 2 races. So I have enjoyed the series, and the only reason I am glad it is finished is that Geoffers is now going too fast, so stopping there is good by me....
For the record, as far as I can remember, that's the first time I have been champion in anything online, we never ran for points on NoGrip in our standard races, so it was never counted. The only races done for points were the series that Nappe organised on there, none of which I won across the series, although I did win a number of races over the years.
Grats to all that made it to the end.
