Never been able to work out how to hook up a 65 car round here. Qualified 8th with something approaching a PB, so was reasonably happy and with the look of the qually times, most people were within a second or so, so i knew the race had the potential to be close.
This was possibly my best online race ever, purely as it was all action. I worked my way up to 5th / 4th within the first few laps and was starting to slowly pull in what would become the 1st and 2nd place finishers. However, after about 10 laps as the fuel burned off and the tyres settled down, the balance of the car was awful. Understeer, oversteer, 2 or 3 corrections needed per corner and an inability to get the power down. It was all under control and i knew i wouldn't crash or be a danger to anybody but the pace had gone.
After that, there was basically a 20+ lap battle with FMG, J.Halli, with Evil also hanging around waiting to pick up the pieces if i remember.
I have to give maximum credit to T.Muttram (FMG). Superb, fair driving for the full race, (we seemed alongside each other for most of it). We gave each other just enough space and he didn't make a 'desperate dan' style move even though for a lot of the race i was struggling once the balance went. At one point, i was considering letting him past to see if that would allow me a free 'slipstreaming' ride up to the leaders as i knew i was holding him up, but i decided against it. Though i was mulling that one over for at least 4 laps. Anyway FMG, hope my lines were fair and realise i was a bit wayward at times.
During the last 8+ laps the balance of the car returned and i was able to be a bit more consistant and up my pace, though the odd missed gear on my gated G25 Stick Shifter and a few missed apex's allowed the pressure to return from those behind.
To be fair, i didn't have the pace for 4th place, but somehow managed to hang on.
As some of my previous posts have pointed out, i think the Pro races are a little too long for me, but thats the way it is, and if they're all like this, then i can't complain of being bored.