Rcae report - Spa:
Quali: Did a 2.20.757 putting me in 2nd for the start of the race, Pagey was too fast in his Alfa
Lap 1: Bad start as usual in the Merc, went from 2nd to 7th, but repassed Joe into Eau Rouge for 6th, then followed Tyrrel and Mike up until the last corner of sector two where I passed Tyrrel, then passed Mike shortly after on the straight before the last chicane, which then put me a little way behind Smartheart and a long way behind Wordup and Pagey
Lap 2: Smartheart made mistakes round the first corner and through Eau Rouge, which put me in his draft on the main straight so I could pass, then I just had to catch Wordup who was 5 seconds infront.
Laps 3-5: Was closing in quite quickly on Wordup and by the time the pistops came I was right behind him
Lap 6: Came out in 4th, somehow lost 3 seconds to Wordup in the pitstop, and I now had Smartheart inbetween us because he hadnt pitted. I spent most of the lap catching him, and overtook him on the back straight putting me behind Wordup again
Pagey was 13 seconds infront at this point, and I decided to just go for 2nd, wasnt much else I could do
Lap 7: Nothing much happened, caught Wordup quit quickly again, putting me within 2 seconds by lap 8.
Lap 8: I continued to close the gap and caught Wordup by the backstraight and passed him for 2nd
Then as we went round the fast left-hander, he clicked the grass, fishtailed and spun out! Giving me a healthy gap
Laps 9+10: With a bit gap between me and Pagey, and a big gap back to Wordup I just decided to cruise it home in 2nd
DFR:
Lap 1: Started 2nd to last just infront of Pagey, but obviously that changed at the start, so I was dead last going into the first corner. Passed Joe mid-way round the first corner, then Pagey spun Mike out just after, putting me up 3 places in total and right behind an army of Calibras!
(squeek, rhyfel, tyrrel, wordup) Then, going under the tunnel was chaos, Wordup and Tyrrel came along side then parted infront of me, and infront of them all I could see was smoke! (Dave had spun from 3rd, Brett ran into him, and then Wordup ran into him, with Squeek and Tyrrel going around the outside, but obviously I had no idea what had happened at the time
) So I decided to be brave and boot it through the smoke hoping that I didnt hit anyone... And it worked!
Then went clean up the inside of Tyrrel the corner after, and shortly after that, Squeek swerved to avoid hitting Sakery, and spun out, putting me in 4th by the first half a lap.
Through the second half I had lots of good runs on Sakery, but I couldnt find a way past, until the main straight where I passed him going into the first corner of the second lap putting me in 3rd
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Lap 2(finally): I followed Smartheart for the first half of the lap looking for a way past, and managed to get a better run out of turn 6 throught the second tunnel, to pass him for 2nd, then I just had to hunt down Knelly
Lap 3: Managed to catch Knelly by the second half of the lap, and got alongside him down the backstaight going through the tunnel, where I almost hit a nasty bit of wall that sticks out, he didnt give me too much room but I stuck with it
Unfortunately he had the inside line fo teh next corner so I slotted back behind. But using the draft I managed to pass him down into the first corner of the 4th lap for 1st! Wooo
Laps 4-8: Nothing interesting happened, just pulled out the gap to Sakery who was in 2nd until my pitstop
Lap 9: Came back out in 2nd (Sakery hadnt pitted) just infront of Smartheart who hadnt pitted either. Sakery then pitted at the end of lap 9 putting me back in the lead for lap 10
Laps 10-15: Again, was just out infront trying to increase the gap. Lapped Squeekimus on lap 13, and he let me by round turn 6. Also lapped a spinning Dave at the last corner
Have fun reading! Oh and the Alfa is in the OCD! Lets see who gets it first
