Has setup for a flexible strategy, had a lap 1 off couldn't get heat fast enuff in the tires so failed to slow car down and dropped to 6th, quickly got up to 5th and settled in behind the Shark-sandwich.
Eventually got by them after some small mistakes on their part, except Ruskus who I had to overtake down mainstrait, he was very fair and kept his normal line. That was around lap 19 and I could see Martin had been fast out of the box, he alrdy had build a 14s lead, but I was free now to pick up some more speed, not much but I got it down to 12s before he pitted. Made my fastest lap on lap 29 and tires felt good still so I decided to stay on them for the rest of the race when I pitted a few laps later, didn't need much fuel so was a fast stop.
Got out just ahead of some battling NGTs and figured I better stay inside down towards T1, couldn't estimate how fast they were closing, but no braking grip on the inside, so had a small trip into the graveltrap. lead was 23-24s then after my outlap and still 17 laps to go, I just kept pushing and could keep that gap until tires started to come off maybe 10 laps before the end, then I began to loose a sec a lap but was still plenty to safely get the car home.
Intense racing in the first half and good job by the NGTs, letting us figthing GTs by
