Another terrific night / morning racing with a great group in fun cars. I really had a ball.
Once again, the best part of all, three races, three different winners and podiums. :dance2: Just how Racing Club events should be.
For me, it was a case of some good qualifying laps, but couldn't turn them into results in the races.
Zandvoort - Cortina: Best race of the night/morning, the Cortina was really suited to the track but the competition was very close. Qualified P2 and held it for a while, but had to watch Sam's Alfa slowly drawing away. The battle with Stuart, Ingmar, and Matt was extremely close and fun. At one stage, Myself, Stu, and Ingemar were three wide into Tarzan, resulting in Stu sneaking past me, but Ingemar drifting wide into the grass and dropping out of the fight. Now Matt was all over me and surprisingly the three of us caught Sam, just to add more spice. Matt repeated Stu's move on me at tarzan, so I sat behind hoping the huge battle in front would give me an opening. They both played nicely and so I had to be content with P4.
Grats to Sam, Matt, and Stuart.
Zeltweg - Mustang: Very funny race, had a grin all the way. The Mustang sure is different to the others. Poor Knut made a great start to jump to the lead, only to watch helplessly as the Mustangs of myself, Stu, and Bram, blew past down the straight. I held the lead for a while, but that bloody first chicane kept giving me grief (almost rolled it there once :laugh2: ). I had a great race with Bram who passed, and then Sam squeezed past, so I got to watch whether Bram could hold off a charging Sam till the end. He did, and in style, including some great 'Stang drifting.
Grats to Bram and Sam, I held on for P3.
Jops - Alfa: What a great track this is. I fluked a pole in qualy, but as we waited for the starters orders, Bram decided to cruise up early to check out the front of the grid :rotfl:. The stewards didn't see the funny side though and kicked him out of the race. :bump2: :Cry:
Stu blasted off the line to grab the lead, and we both opened a handy gap to the others. I did my best to keep Stu honest all race, but he was driving like a man possessed. With two laps to go, I decided to turn up the wick on the Alfa in the hope of pressuring Stu into a mistake. Guess who made the big boo boo. :yo: I overcooked it into the trees and must have tangled myself in a barbed wire fence, as the car became stuck, swaying in the breeze, and refused to move anywhere. Race over :deadhorse:
Grats to Stuart, Matt and Knut.
Thanks again to the gentlemen of the GTL Club. We may be a smaller group, but I'd say we have more fun than the GTRE jockeys. :grouphug:
