Gutted when that clip finished part way through the race, was lapping that up, what racing! Think we need that GTL Camaro...and fast.
Paul Ricard was really enjoyable, love the fast bits, holding a big drift in 3rd and 4th gears in the heavy Vette, the slow twisties weren't such fun, as Dan noted, had to wait an eternity for the nose to bite.
For a moment I thought I might hold on, as Ian did a great job holding everyone back and I pulled a fair lead (cheers mate
) but then reality intruded and I realised didn't matter how big a lead I got, Dan would still make it through and ignite his afterburner and zoom by. Indeed he did, fantastic pace, and then fell off gifting me the lead again, several times, didn't realise it was stuttering, glad it didn't ruin the race.
Start was tight, thought I was going to rearend Dan, had to lift dramatically and then aim for the middle, I didn't even realise Samb went for the same gap, the Vette shrugged it off! And ended up out front. Then the tyre grip fell off a precipice around lap 15 and I struggled to keep it going, went off a few times and was just dead slow, saw my 12s gap to 3rd evaporate...was cursing the extra 2 laps that took it over 40 minutes....and was about to lose 2nd to Samb when I reached the line.....note to Ian, when we're gonna drive big tyre hungry V8s make sure the race laps don't exceed 40 mins...please.
