I didn't know Paul had made a boob with the timings of the race, so I joined, what I thought, was a few minutes early. Turned out I only had 6.5 minutes of qually left, so good job I turned up early.
Anyway, managed to get a pretty decent qually lap in, 1:22.2, but didn't have time for a pee or to know how much fuel to put in (flustered problems
) and then realised I didn't actually know whether it was a pace lap or standing start. Looked like a standing start, so just went with the flow.
My fault for not checking! Tut!
Race was going well, was keeping up with the leading pack, bedding myself in. After a while I got past team mate Gizmo and was harrassing SBG. He succumbed to the pressure and started a not so beautiful pirouette. However, seeing two Sharks around him while he span, I saw the glint in his eye as he realised he could take two of us out in one move.
He clipped my rear end sending me into a spin and took out Gizmo. This merely wounded the Great White Shark, but it was a fatal attack for Gizmo.
The game then decided that me going off the track backwards in a spin was cutting the course and as I rejoined the damned thing told me I was a big fat cheater and to slow down! Bah! Anyway, I ignored the damage and just drove my heart out. Caught up Stuart after a while and spent quite a few laps working out how to pass him. He was making life hard, but eventually I worked out I could possibly get him on the exit of T1. So one lap after getting a really wide line side by side with him I then had the run trough the banked left hander.
After that it was plain sailing and after getting a 1:21.749 in Stuarts slipstream earlier, I managed 2 1:21.9s without any tow afterwards.
Good job Brendan, well deserved win and well done Paul on 2nd, I didn't have enough laps left to get quite close enough to try to get you at the end.
