Well that was a sweaty palms final race of the season!
Starting the final race in 1st place in the championship with only a slim lead in front of Vos, and I think the top four all in with a shout, is a bit nerve racking
Things didn’t start off well!
Joined qually only to find my wheel had lost its calibration setting, was 90deg out and wouldn't recalibrate.
Had to leave session and try and fix it, played around but still didn't seem to be 100% correct but tried in GPL offline and it seemed to be at least working OK. Rejoined with half the qually session already gone.
Struggled to get any sort of sensible time, either by my own mistakes or meeting other drivers. At the very last moment managed to get a lap in for 4th on the grid. Still way off a PB but it was one place in front of Vos. Phew I thought.
Congrats to D-Rock for pole time
, especially as he hasn’t been driving for the last 4 rounds.
Start of race and Vos drives past me with ease.
Where are my flying starts when you really need them. Down to 5th and not reached T1 :'(
The front four were pulling away slowly and with Vos in front of me, that was probably the championship gone. Then the race fairy started waving her magic wand
and one after the other Vos, D-Rock and NHance fell off the black stuff and I was now second chasing Ross and importantly with Vos behind me in third.
Ross was faster and 100% consistent and slowly pulling out 1/10ths and moving away.
Vos seemed to yo-yo the distance behind me a small amount but generally I seemed to be making the gap bigger.
It seemed a very long race, and I was watching prib times all the way and hoping I didn’t make a mistake
Ended up 2nd and with Vos behind in 3rd was enough to stay in the lead and win the series.
Very pleased to have got there in the end and after 4 seasons in Novs it is nice to finally come out on top.
I would like to thank the following people for helping me win the championship
Vos – thanks for missing the first two rounds, 4 wins in only 8 races makes you top race winner this season
Ross – thank god this was your first full season and your early races you kept falling off. 3 wins and a 3rd in the last 4 races
D-Rock – thanks for being new and absent for four rounds. With 3 poles and 1 win you are too quick.
N-Hance – thanks for missing two rounds, 5 podiums and two Fastest Laps in the last three races means you are also much too quick now.
I think I had a bit of a jenson button season, started well, and by the end was lucky as quite a few others were a lot quicker than me so was lucky to hang on. Thanks for the excellent racing guys
Also Big Thanks to all organizing people.
See you next season or maybe some fun races soon