It's been a great series for sure, with some nice cars & tracks. Liked Fuji, apart from a little too many 1st gear corners, but at least there's some fast ones as well to compensate. Love the Sierra; would be nice to use it with less tyre wear, as it's easy & so much fun to power slide it around.
Thought Daz was playing the no-qual game when I ran away with pole, so surprised to see that he did set a time. Only conclusion must be that he arrived unprepared. Lost the lead to him immediately, and next lap Dan slipstreamed ahead. Couldn't match his speed over the early laps, so he pulled out a gap. As the stint (and tyres..) wore on, I slowly reeled him back in. Just as I was getting close late in the stint, he pulled over and waved me through; shame as it was a great chase. I suspected fuel issues, which he confirmed after the race. A bit strange, fuel - I started with 20 laps in the tank, which testing had shown to be required for 18 laps, and I planned to do 17 before stopping. Original plan was to add another 20 laps for the remaining 17 laps, but worried by Dan's suspected issue, I added 21 laps to be safe. Still, I only had ½ a lap left when the race finished after another 17 laps, so wonder if I might have run out, had I not added the extra?
2nd stint was lonely, apart from lapping a couple of cars - Clive waved me past down the straight, only for me to overshoot my brake point and kiss the gravel, so we had to repeat the manoeuvre 1-2 laps later
Apologies to Fulvio for not flashing a 'thank you'; was too focused on the corner to fumble for the light button.
Grats to Daz on the win, the series & class wins, and to Clive for Division 3
