what a plonker I am
after practice I thought "oh well I'll just run around at the back and pick up some easy championship points"
then in qualifying things altered and I found myself 4th on the grid don't know how that happened
so then I thought "oh well I'll try and make a race of it and see if I can finish at least in that spot"
so we are sat on the grid and I fluff the rolling move off..sorry for who was behind me
I have my sound set-up main sound is on my G35 headphones and I have spotter and chat on a single earplug using on-board sound card {find it easier to control all the different volumes
} well my earplug fell out and I was fiddling putting it back in when the cars moved
so race start I set off and first stint all worked perfect Paul didn't drop me off as quick as I expected and Dave didn't rush past me as expected and I even kept the thing on track which was a totally unexpected
just as I was planning to pit I found Paul off the track after hitting the wall this put me 3rd
so next time round I pitted as I had planned to apart from I decided as I entered the pit to only take fuel so changed the settings as I trundled down the pit lane, all went well and I shot off out of the pits thinking good that went smooth BUT as i was altering F3 back to relative for the rest of the race i went through the fuel and noticed it said I had enough fuel for 4 laps LESS than the race length
...........i must have hit the button to drop fuel when i decided to unchecked the tyres and short fuelled
...........my next thought I won't type
so there was me having a much better race than I expected especially as the next lap I ended up in 2nd place as I got past Brendan as he was leaving the pits and i thought tight track if I can keep it together maybe he won't get past .ha ha as if
anyway I ran a few laps in second then though seeing as I have to pit again to save the pressure of having Brendan on my tail I let him go {OK OK I messed up and went wide at the bottom of the short hill
he would have got me the next lap anyway
}
so now I had work out best way to cope with the lack of fuel and decided best to pit again for the splash early so if I dropped places I would have a few extra laps to try and get the spots back so I dove in took the splash and flew out the pits again and found I still had about 4 seconds on Dave rest of the race I just did my best to keep that gap on Dave to the end of the race which I did
so all in all yes it was a poor turn out but boy was it a lot of fun a hell of a lot more fun than I was expecting
well done Gary and Brendan on the 1. 2. finish
and a big thank to all for another fun evening on track .and to think I near left this series at the beginning cos I couldn't drive the car to save my life
CY next time on track guys;)
Ian
