Had a run at Brands late last night, again in the Viper. Q3 with my 1:29:013 Q time, with a Slophy and GT-R in front of me, then a bunch of much slower opponents behind me. First lap, no idea what happened, but the GT-R spun out in front of me after Sheene Curve and the Slophy spun after Stirlings, completely opening up the circuit for me! So there I was, in first, for the next 8 laps until the guy in the Slophy finally caught up to me and passed me (fairly, I must add, very civilized race craft!). He was lapping nearly 2s quicker, so the guy was rapid, and I was struggling to get my lap times under 1:31 in race trim, preferring to keep the laps clean than push for outright lap time. We both ducked into the pits on lap 9, and both came out on the RM tyres - at least that's what I thought. One lap later, he jumps back into the pits roughly 5s ahead of me, and emerges 7s behind me at the start of lap 11. I'm thinking he's running a 2-stop because he's so quick and just wanted to burn off the RM's and jump back on the softs. Turns out he didn't have quite enough pace to make up the time loss and I ended up winning the race by over 2s. Messaged him afterwards and he'd put the wrong tyres on at the pit stop so had to double-stop! So, that gifted me a win in my final race of the week - I was still pretty blown away at how many didn't read the rules (by the end of Sunday!) and were getting 1min penalties, because 3 of 8 cars all had 1 min added to their race times!
Laguna should be fun this week. Looking forward to that one! EDIT: Just remembered that's the FIA race... Nurburgring will be alright, but I'll probably spend more time practicing for the Manufacturers race.
