Well pleased with 4th place, although at one point I was having ideas of being on the podium
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The Pantera is the obvious car for Le Mans, but I had only ever tried racing it twice before & both times crashed heavily in the early laps. Raced the Capri here several times, so I wanted to give something else a go. Tried the BMW & was painfully slow in it, it just didn't seem to have the right gearing for Le Mans, all credit to PR for doing those amazing laptimes in it
. So I tried the Pantera again & found a setup that gave me some sort of control over it
Anyway as things turned out I had a great race in the Panty. The first half of the race was a good battle with Dynosaur & API, not much overtaking but we were always within 2-3 secs of each other. After my stop I rejoined just behind Mr Oily & nearly got ahead before the Porsche curves but he held his line & managed to put enough space between us in the twisty bits that I couldn't catch him on the Mulsanne straight. I then lost a load of time when I drifted slightly track braking for the second Mulsanne chicane & had to take the escape road. Unfortunately the gap between the barriers is quite small & I had to do a bit the shunting back & forth to get through the gap
The rest of the race was quite lonely, so I came home a distant 4th. Congrats to Lazlow, PR & Oily & also to drivers champ Lazlow & teams champs Team Oldie.
Really enjoyed the racing this season, despite having too many off track excursions, & look forward to whatever the new year brings.
