Well done on the laptimes Steve
Knew you could go fast if you really wanted too
Well, race 1 went well right up until I lost track of Sam's car and spotted what turned out to be his doppleganger behind in my mirrors - this resulted in my pulling back onto the racing line only to be clobbered by Sam who was still beside me
Thankfully as it was on a corner, only I was affected and promptly span off with the grace of a hippo on rollerskates....
Rejoined and put my head down as Ronnie was fast approaching and looking menacing, we had a battle for a lap or two before I finally dropped him enough to be safe. Then amazingly in the closing stages I caught first Steve and then Evil as they inspected the scenery and lucked into a solid 3rd
Race 2 was somewhat different as it was a massive battle from the get go. First victim was Hristo who was obviously curious over exactly why Art disappeared in to the undergrowth in race 1 and decided to go look
From there on it was a massive 3 way battle to the flag between Clive, Sam and myself with occasional guess appearences.
All this culminated after several hectic laps of testing tactics for use against Clive, with Sam claiming the lead a few corners from the finish and messing up my finely crafted plan
Instead of doing my best to ensure Clive 'gained' the lead approaching/in/exiting the final turn I made the decision to prompt him into making his move on the turn proir to that by accidentally running slightly wide (
), faced with me in the dirt and Sam several car lengths ahead Clive took the bait and ran with it while I hastilly regained the track and slipstreamed the pair down to the final corner.
Here we all contested the corner in style with Clive leading and Sam and I near enough side-by side. Which was fine by me as it only slowed my turn giving me a better speed advantage when I
did catch Clive - meaning he had no hope of jumping into my slipstream and drafting back around me
So, all in all I'm damn pleased with the race having scored a 1st and a 3rd despite only getting 5th fastest race lap on each outing