OH YES! I DID IT!! I actually WON a Boss race!:eek:
And I think it was the slowest victory in Boss history..
LOL. My best race 1 lap was over a second off my qualy lap, which in turn was over a sec from pole.
BUT.. since, like Ross G., my starting skills have improved lately, I managed to jump from 4th to 1st at R1 start. Much to my own surprise I must say!
However, since both my setup- and driving skills are not quite up to par to say the least, immediately I was hounded by David and Markus, who obviously had way better pace but both were very clean, and due to some off-the-line mayhem behind us it took the other aliens Eck and Knut some 4 or 5 laps to catch up with us.
Much to my own surprise -again- I was still in the lead by then, so my plan to make up in Wideness what I lacked in pace seemed to work better than expected
. I must add this was mainly due to immaculate clean gentleman driving from all guys involved.
So with complete disregard for my tires I decided to try make this last as long as possible, which resulted in me being ridiculously slow on the twisty part every single lap but nonetheless keeping everyone behind me!!
What a crazy race, but fantastically great fun!
With my head still in the clouds my Q2 was far from great, getting 7th on the grid.
However, I had another flying start and got to turn 1 as 3rd behind David and Knut, who quickly started vanishing into the distance leaving me with Eck on my tail who clearly had no interest in another sightseeing tour behind my slow ass.. so I tried but had to give in soon enough, leaving me alone on track with no one near, until a strange simultaneous disco for Eck, Ross and Stu landed me back in 3rd until finish, but it felt a bit like a stolen podium for me..
Grats to David and Knut, big thanks to all racers who made this another great race night. Special thanks to Stuart for bringing us these.. Oh and lets not forget the great little improvised Demolition Derby afterwards
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