An enjoyable race for me, armed with a tweaked version of the excellent setup I used in the endurance race on Sunday. I didn't have a qually setup and it showed, but 3rd on the grid was okay behind the two 28CD guys. I was intending to just stay in 3rd for a while and let the two up front fight among themselves since championship positions were at stake.
However, once the race started it became clear that Luke was holding me up, and worse was the rest of the field were starting to bunch up behind me. The situation didn't last long - Luke touched the grass entering the final turn and it threw his RSR into a spin. I did my best to avoid, but a spinning car is very unpredictable and there was a little contact as I went around the outside - sorry about that Luke.
That put me in second place with Paul Richards 4 seconds up the road in the 360 Tagliatelli. Paul did an awesome qual lap given his equipment and his race pace wasn't too shabby either, so I was only able to eek about 3 or 4 tenths per lap out of his lead. There were about 18 minutes to go by the time I caught Paul, but his speed down the straights quickly made it clear to me that passing him would be no easy task.
After about 8 laps of following I finally got a good enough exit out of the final turn to get a decent tow down the front straight. In the end Paul didn't put up much of a fight - probably more worried about his championship than winning this race - so I got by quite easily into the braking zone.
My tyres were on the way out by that point but Paul had slowed so I managed to cruise around the final 3 laps to take the win.
The main event though was clearly Paul's championship win - well done mate. Congrats also to 28CD who romped away with the team championship by a country mile. Roll on season 5
