Welcome to the club Leif, glad you enjoyed it!
Agreed, great track, very challenging with the bankings and the elevation changes. But I had a mixed pair of races here;
I felt I was doing OK during P1, but Knut and Stu were clearly in a league of their own.. however Stu threw away his Q1 lap, so he started from the back, while I started 4th I think.
R1 start was good for me, gained a few places as Jacob and Tim had some contact, so soon found myself chasing Knut in P2.. well not really chasing, more like at some points of the track I could just see a glimpse of a yellow Cortina in the distance.
No matter what I tried, the gap only grew, until suddenly Knut went MIA and my XD showed me I was in the lead !?!?
Ok then, let's see if I can make that work! Soon I found Jacob on my trail closing in, while he in turn was chased by that other alien, the-man-who-did-not-practise coming from the back of the field
. Their battle gave me a short little breathing space, but come race end I found Stuart closing in at freightning speed and onto my rear bumper..thank goodness by then we were on the last of the 16 laps; Had the race been 17 laps I would not have been able to hold him off..
The 2nd half started much like the first half: P2 again was OK while Knut and Stu were crazy fast, Q2 went fine for me as well while Stu again struggled and would start from the back..But my R2 soon proved to be quite a different one..
As mentioned by Jack I was the first to miss last corner in L1, watched the whole field go by while I was sliding on my roof so went from 3rd to last.. Fought myself back to 5th, spun in the corkscrew, almost last again.. Fought myself back to behind Domagoj, who displayed several laps of brilliant defense as well, I could not find a way past and then found Tim on my tail.. who in turn had no trouble getting past
me..
Then once I spun off in the first corner and before I even had re-entered the track I encountered Hans who attempted to split my Cortina in half..:eek: Sorry Hans, I didn't really want to be there, but i DID get there first
. By then problems still weren't over, so I finished somewhere way, way at the back.
Doesn't really matter as it still was a fun and eventful race, albeit not a very succesful one..
My apologies to everyone who found me in their way at one point or another; trust me, I didn't mean to be there.
WD podium, and
Thank you to Stuart for another great combo, and to all who were here to enjoy it.