A personally pathetic performance in the pretty provincial Pau, with a personal best performance in practice.
I could have taken the BRM and incurred no pitstops, also had the option of the Cooper...and no pitstop. But, I was conned by the AI competition during my short practice sessions in private. The likes of Jim Clark down to Joe Bloggs were posting lap times of 1:16 secs and the best I could achieve was about 1:25!!! So I was conned into choosing ( what was for me) a faster chassis.
Well, I thought if the aliens are going to be doing 1 :16's or faster I am so far off the pace as to be a non starter in this race.
It turns out that not even our resident aliens can do 1:16's, WHAT A RELIEF THAT WAS!!!! although Lorenzo made a dam fine attempt in his Brabham!!!. Spurred on by this new ray of hope I squeezed a 1:23 sec lap out of the Fez, I had chosen as my weapon of choice.
The start went well and I was only slightly off the pace of Iestyn's Lotus and the usual suspects upfront.
All was going well and I felt quite comfortable as the lap times slowly improved..until I got a slight slide going around the long right hander which snapped left then right as I braked and pushed me solidly into those concrete straw bales...game over!
Hard luck to Lorenzo for his disco
and grats to Ken, Iestyn, Hristo and John for holding things together for longer than I managed.