Very interesting race again!
Even this one very close on the strategy.
I had a bad start, and at the first corner, I was on the outside, with Thomas M. inside. Unfortunately the first corner borders, are too high, and there's no place for 2 cars, so we had a contact, and my right suspetion was damaged since the first corner
, without any fault by both drivers I guess.
Luckily the circuit of Albi get only a couple of left corners, so it was quite easy to go on even with a broken suspention. I decided to not repair the damage on my xd, and the race went on with no troubles til the pit stop of Thomas & Mike. We were 3 drivers in 2.5-3 seconds during the first 20 laps. Nice stuff!
Thomas anticipated his pit, and I was pushing pushing & pushing again to comeback on Mike before the pit, in which I am usually slightly faster than him. I risked a bit cause I didn't imagine that the pit limiter was setted at 48 kph, instead of the usual 60 kph, but I was lucky enough not to take a Stop&go.
We leaved the pit lane with a distance of about 2 seconds, and I started again to chase Mike. Now the troubles is not to waste time with lapped drivers, and I have to thank all of you for the great fair play demonstrated every time I had to lap someone!
When there were only 7-8 laps to go, I managed to take him, but I had totally lost the mark at the 2nd chicane, sending the innocent Mike to roll like a top on the escape route... sorry again mate.
Fortunately I saw that he was able to follow his race without need of a pit stop, and a couple of laps later I was at his back again.
This time I was more careful on the approach, and I discovered that we were on a different final gear, that help me to accelerate better in a couple of long corners, but Mike had an advantage in acceleration from the slow corners, so I understood I would have passed Mike only for some mistake he could have done before the end.
Mike brought his car with less mistake than me til the checkered flag, so I had to give up 2 or 3 laps before the end, and he really desreved the victory of this race! Well done mate!
That was my last race of this champ, cause I have the Italian championship next Thursday. I tried to do my best in all the 3 races for the Oldies, and I'm really happy about the results! I hope that another Oldie will help Legzy to fight for the 2nd position in team championship, that it's not so distant now. As Obama says: Yes we can!
Thanks everybody for some great races here even during this season! Thanks to the organizer, and all the drivers that joined these races!
I hope to see you for the next champ with the P&G 3... who knows
Bye bye
