Interesting race last night. I really wish the grid was setup right. I started 8th with only Lunarian, Cujo, and Diabolic behind me. Cujo blew past half the field before turn 1 and I played it safe. Diabolic stayed back with me until the oval. He passed me and I drafted him past lunarian. But lunarian didn't brake for the bus stop and I saw him coming in hot. I avoided a major catastrophe but it caused me to lose the draft. Probably for the best though. The next few laps I closed in on some cars after they had spread out. Had some fun with james and bowtie and eventually caught wiifreak. I made a mistake on turn 1, clipped the grass ever so slightly and had to battle back past bowtie and wiifreak again. I pitted at the end of lap 15 and Wiifreak came in right on my bumper. I had an earlier pit stall which actually helped me. He had to slow to wait for me to enter my stall and then I think he had to wait again to pull out when i went by. That put me out of drafting distance once the pit cycle was finished. I really thought he'd catch me on fresh tires but that was the last I saw of him. I had plenty of cars to draft though, and I was working hard to chase down Bowtie and James who didn't pit. Again, I made a mistake in turn 1 but saved it from damage. However, it looked like I was going to spend the rest of the race chasing down bowtie again, and my chances of catching james looked slim. Then Cujo came to the rescue. I was able to draft him and catch bowtie. I drafted past bowtie and used Cujo again to catch James. Over the course of 1 lap, I think I made back all the lost time just by staying close enough to Cujo.
I'm just really surprised WiiFreak never caught up to us. My only guess is that he's planning something big for next week. In fact, looking at his rewards, I'd say he's got the season in the bag if he can put any car between he and I.
The final race should be interesting. There are several contenders for the championship:
wiifreak wins - if he can put at least one car between he and chuyler
chuyler wins - if he can finish ahead of wiifreak (unlikely)
A tie between chuyler and wiifreak - if wiifreak places 4th and chuyler places 5th (also occurs if they place 5th and 6th or 6th and 7th, etc)
james wins - if he wins the race and wiifreak and chuyler place no better than 5th and 6th
bowtie - unlikely at this point, but you never know.
Basically I'm counting on Cujo, Diabolic, and Galkazoid to finish well. The more cars that run clean, the fewer cars there will be to get stuck betweeen wiifreak and I.
BEWARE BEWARE the bograt is coming...
