Old Ring Park, Jops Siffert and Sapanoro I have raced on before, and all are fantastic tracks.
Great series Tony, I have always thought these small 70s cars give fantastic racing whilst for the main part being easier to avoid trouble than some of the faster stuff, so seeing them being used is great.
I have raced here many moons ago, so it was kind of familiar. I did try all 4 cars offline, and decided on Alpine then Escort.
Race 1, nipped in front in quali, but a terrible start dropped me behind Matt and Erling. Had a bit of a freebie back into second when Matt span, but I had nowhere near the same pace as Dimitar, the car was an understeering pile of junk, and I'm convinced I got the gears all wrong. Had a right job on holding off Erling, who went past me when I went wide around half distance, and although I got back past him it was never comfortable. In the meantime Dimitar was long, long gone, showing great pace and his usual consistency.
Race 2 - was a relief to get in the Escort, even though it was slower. Stuck it on pole, but as Ziu said that was only because of him having connection problems. Better start, held off DD, and felt I might just have enough pace to keep pulling away to get that gap to stop the draft.....No, never happened!
Essentially the rest of the race was DD looking to create an opening to get past me, and me trying hard to not only give him no opening for a dive but also just changing up the lines trying to both find a crucial tenth or two, and keep him guessing where the hole in the air was going to be. 16 laps of pressure later, with the latter half being properly close, and I just about took the win, but honestly it was a coin flip, could have gone either way. I now genuinely have no idea which of the two cars is faster, or how much of his speed was down to the slipstream. I think DD had the better pace on the night, see race 1
, but I had track position and made it work....
Great event, awesome racing, a lot of fun for sure. I recommend a watch of the video DD streamed for race 2.....