What a brilliant race that was. Start was ok, got off in 6th and managed to hang onto the train that was pulling away pretty early on. Kept in the back of the group in 5th most of the time, because even kartman wasn't able to break away, so I figured noone would. Towards the end of my first planned stint suddenly I found myself in 2nd when kartman, jet and RPH pitted. Smuffy and I continued. I probably stayed out 1 lap too long (11), but I was in a good rhythm, so I wanted to use that a little longer.
When I came out of the pits I couldn't believe my eyes though, when I saw that I was 24 seconds behind (RPH I think) in 5th or 6th. Apparently it was a combination though of a) them taking on less fuel where I had filled my tank to the brim, and b) the Ford needing a lot less fuel to begin with. I managed to keep the gap between 20 and 22 seconds in that second stint and ran into Smuffy (not literally), who I would battle all the way towards the end as it would turn out. Then RPH and Jet pitted and I came in after 10 laps just ahead of Smuffy. We both took on a similar load of fuel, but he came out of the pits a little ahead of me.
At that point I was still 14 seconds behind. In the last stint, Smuffy, Jet and I formed up a sort of train and we managed to reel in RPH little by little. With 1 hour 59 on the race clock, I managed to take the lead - RPH seemed to have some kind of problem. There was no way to shake Jet and Smuffy, so when we were on the last lap I just thought I had to try and be ahead going into the Porsche curves, so I took a slightly defensive line going into the first Porsche curve and also into the Ford chicane so as not to allow someone to pass on the inside.
Surely my best race in a long time, if not ever.
. came out of the pits with RPH and jet, had some lag on the straight and hit the wall. Made it round to the pits, was just about to type hoping for a caution now, then realised my pit crew had finished, rushed to exit chat box and pressed o again accidentally , then ended up in the lobby 
