Oooooooooh! that has gotta hurt Tony
. Especially as you were running so well.
Grats to Daz on the win, I guess I managed to select the fastest car? and I will pay for that in the last round? lol
Slowly, very slowly I am beginning to understand what setup adjustments suit me and my driving style. During the practice and qualifying I was slowly tweaking things and finding that I had a car that was extremely driveable.
Even so, I was more surprised than anyone when I posted the pole time, and with race fuel
.
The euphoria was short lived when the countdown finished and we all shot off the grid and I discovered that I had zero FF. I was desperate not to hit/impede/destroy anyone else and almost climbed the grass to get out of the way.
Coincidentally at the same time as I pounded the "Alt/F" keys, a very dense red mist descended and I set off after the pack at a very high rate of knots. After a series of crazy overtakes I was up to 3rd and looking for a way past Matt in his Capri when he ran wide and gifted me second spot
Daz had slipped away and was a comfortable distance up the road, so I set off in pursuit. Much to my irritation I was only able to shave the gap down by the odd tenth of a second instead of swooping onto Daz's tail like a Valkyrie inside one lap. But eventually the gap showed as 2.0secs and I was just beginning to feel that I would catch him, especially once I picked up the slipstream.
Then I ran wide and lost all of the time that I had worked so hard to gain
At this point the red fog was so dense that it was difficult to see and I totally lost the plot for the next few laps making numerous small errors.
Once I got my head back in gear and wiped the waterfall of sweat out of my eyes, I began to close what was now around 15 secs of Daz's lead. Then with only around 8 laps to go I presume that Daz had a moment and he was only 7.0 secs up the road and I was getting glimpses of his Porsche backside in the distance. I tried, but I could not close that gap by more than a few tenths even though I posted my FL on worn tyres.
Grats to Daz on the win and a warning to my pitcrew to make sure the ruddy FF is operational next time a car is sent to the grid!!!