Well that was fun!
I held off
@DelboyD for a couple of laps before deciding that I really didn't have the skill to do it for the full 90 minutes. So let you through thinking I could stick with you. I couldn't. You were +1.2 secs a lap quicker overall. If I'd been brave and got Softs for the race then maybe. I just wasn't convinced I could make them last for the full fuel cycles, so played a bit more conservative. But in fairness, we did the same M/M/M/S strategy, so you just bossed me.
I let
@Granadier go as well at one point as I thought you might be able to chase Delboy but then you fell off the road a couple of times. We were having a really cool strategy battle. At times I was matching your Soft pace so I was actually really excited about what was going to happen in the last 15. You would have had me after I pitted for the last time but I reckon I would have got you and that could have been a mad mad last couple of laps! That one could have gone to the flag! Alas, you forgot to refuel, twice! I actually ran out crossing the line.
But it was a funny old race, because just when I thought I was going to get lonely faces kept popping up.
@Bivittavus88 lapped me, then pitted, then you outbraked yourself coming back through on the inside so had to do it all again again. That was kinda fun trying to keep up with you. I say fun. I couldn't.
Neither could I actually keep up with
@Invisigoth at one point. I went really wide turn 3 and you unlapped yourself but I couldn't reel that bug back in for love nor money. You had good pace at the end. But I did laugh hard when you and
@RacingGrandpa went awry together. Not at you guys per se, but at the surprise shock of a fully stopped
@MaxAttack who I was following. Sorry for the bump!
Good reactions as well by the way down the back straigh at one point. Apologies for that. It was a late choice of line but you came up so fast when we both went the same way it nearly got messy!
Apologies to
@Mistah_MCA as well. Again good job keeping it all together. But also, I guess, thanks for being there
I'd got a little bit loose on the outside curb and was probably about to lose it completely until you straightened me up!
I think that about does it for my report. 4th in Class (sorry
@NoStopN !). Who'd have thought it!
A few other quick observations.
1) I never saw
@GOTMAXPOWER on track. I think you must have lapped me whilst I was in the pits.
2)
@Drex124 lapped me in the same part through turn 3, 3 times in a row which I found amusing.
3)
@RacingGrandpa - 'pace' is the operative word here. Our QTs for the daily races aren't too disimmilar a lot of the time and on the Mediums in Gr.3 qualy you were only 2-3 tenths behind. So you can do the speed. It's just about the consistency. The only real difference was that I'd committed to this event quite a long way out so I'd managed to get around 200 laps in in preparation and I think it showed - granted I was never going to have the 'speed' of some of the Top 3, but I was able to run my 'speed' of 48-49s pretty much all race.