What a hoot that was
I think I grabbed GTC pole only to get out-muscled by the 3 GT3's to quickly drop me down to 4th when I clipped a stationary car (Jan I think) going into T1 and sending me into the gravel losing about 30s and dropping me to last place. I came very close to quitting at that point!
I slowly picked up a few places at the rear of the field and was making steady progress when I pitted just after half way, I then had a situation I hadn't come across when Ade and I attempted to leave the pits at the same time and tried to let each other go in front a few times... "After you", " No, after YOU!" lol. Eventually Ade out-insisted me and we took off for the 2nd half of the race.
It turned out Ade was a bit quicker but I wasn't feeling too generous and contested it every inch of the way, it was a great battle. I seemed to come off the better in traffic but Ade came back strongly each time. I think he had only one genuine passing opportunity which very nearly came off but resulted in some contact which Ade very decently conceded the position back to me.
After a bit of lapping shenanigans I pulled a very small gap when MJ joined the party (late as usual
) and Ade had a few things of his own to worry about which made the last few laps a little easier. Great drive Ade, it was a real pleasure
I had quite a few dicey moments with certain GT's, I hope the practice we all had comes in useful for the Upper Endurance race
