What a great weekend this past week, I really enjoyed the races. I had a big long race recap all typed out but deleted it somehow so here are the cliff notes.(this one turned out to be pretty long also)
Qualified 6th, which was a bit disappointing since I was 2nd in the pre race warm up, couldn't put together a good lap when it counted. First race I had to get on the brakes a bit more than I thought going into the final hairpin first lap. Was all out of sorts, took me a second to get straight and get going, but by that time I was sitting in 10th fighting to hold off the 11th place guy. I knew that I needed to be in the top six to get a good spot on the grid for the second race, so that was my goal. Had some great battles making my way up the field, didn't see very much contact, seemed everyone was racing together pretty clean for the most part. Made my way up to 6th and broke free of the battle for 7th, but the gap to Watson was too much to overcome, so I just settled into a comfortable pace, thinking 6th was as high as I could get. Little did I know Watson would make a mistake while working thru some lapped traffic, all of a sudden I was only a few seconds back from him, kicking myself for not pushing harder mid race, may have been able to pick up another position.
Since I finished 6th in the first race, that meant I was on pole with a bunch of fast mothers behind me. Watson got through first, and then I had RT all over me in my rearview, which makes my palms sweaty just thinking about it
, seemed to hold them off pretty well for a couple laps, until I made a mistake exiting the moto chicane. That was all it took and went from 2nd to 5th in about a half of straight. Held on for 5th giving me a decent result of 6th place overall for the weekend. 👍
Also wanted to add I will have to miss this week as I am heading to New Orleans for a Subaru BRZ ride and drive, pretty pumped about being able to get behind the wheel of Subarus new FR platform.
👍
