I almost missed this bit of fun!! I got home from work late and totally forgot about the 8:30 start
So I drifted on to the chat at about 8:50, where I was jumped upon by Tim and despatched to "Server 2" immediately.
My head was still spinning as I landed in South Africa, and it took me a while to get a feel for the Cooper on full fuel. With about 5 mins to go I dumped a load of fuel and tried to move up from a lowly 10th on the grid. I was quite surprised to post a 2nd spot and hold it.
Lack or prep showed when 1st gear bogged down on the grid and I got passed by a flying BRM to drop to 3rd before T1!!. By the end of lap 1, I was hooked onto the tail of the leading pair.
I was held back by the BRM, as the pole sitter's Fezza eased away. By the time I had made several aborted outbraking attempts into T1 the gap to the leader had grown still further.
So, a banzai draft out of the hairpin and down the straight, last of the last brakers and stuck the Cooper down the inside to take 2nd place. Not sure what happened then, but the BRM ran wide. Hope there was no contact as I did not register anything and thought it was a clean pass, but maybe I just caught him by surprise???
I tried to close the gap on the fezza in 1st spot and suceeded in closing the gap by a couple of seconds until the strain on the tyres proved too much and they overheated and I had to back off or risk a trip into the veldt
From there to the end it was a case of hoping that Goran would move up from 4th to grab 3rd and maintaining my pace. Watching prib instead of the track caused me to spin at T2 but I got going again before the pack arrived and was able to cruise to a second spot finish easily.
frustrated at not being able to get on terms with the 1st place Fezza to make a race of it, but his win was well deserved as he was very quick and consistant.
Thanks to GPL Racer for a fun event and some great racing.