I had left the last 2 events of the WC for yesterday evening and had a blast with both of them.
Race of Turbo Sportscars – Watkins Glen Long
I dusted off an engine swapped (CTR38-CTR3 from Ruf CTR3) Porsche 911 Carrera CS (993) with RM tires and a LeMans '98 GT2 retro livery (great work retro_Achter !). Picked up a 1st place a bit too easily, but that engine sound really made up for the lack of in-race battle.
WTC700 – 24 Heures du Mans
I must say that I've never been any good at La Sarthe and that one of my repeating errors is that I tend to 'overdrive' the car in difficult conditions (i.e. wet/rain) so finally being able to complete this event, (with a clean race bonus no less!

) left me with such a childish grin on my face .... a feeling my partner did not understand when she entered the room while I was just on the cool down lap taking pics

)
This time I really nursed the RS tires on my 458 Italia Gr.4, FM5, and kept an eye on the wet-o-meter on the dash (the surface water indicator display).
I took the lead in lap 3 overtaking a Viper at the beginning of Mulsanne right before a rain spell made things a tad slippery. Fortunately, it was a light one so I bet on going again for RS when I pitted at the end of the lap, tailed closely by the Viper. Rejoined track in 4th place only to see the bloody Viper 3 seconds in front of me again! (My crew definitely has some work to do on the pitstops

).
I kept it close enough on the slightly wet conditions to overtake the Viper again for 3rd place at the Porsche curves (spot on!) and started lap 5 in the lead after the other two cars pitted.
Another rain spell in laps 5 and 6. This time I went wide at the 'esses' and lost the lead by 5 seconds (as expected, I overdrove the car

). As the track started to be completely dry I reduced the gap to the Viper to 1.5s when saw it going to pit again for some fuel and the end of lap 6. Damn, that's the reason he overtook me in the pits. Payback time!

.
Lap 7 was just a victory tour, lifting and coasting, taking care of the dying tires while managing the gap to the lap_4-leading Lambo Huracán trying to make a furious comeback. The bloody Viper completed the podium. So much fun!!!!!!