thx to Yves for setting up event, and more especially the guys that turned up, Yves. Oh yea, also thx to RD who without them this wouldn't have taken place, thx guys. :thanks:
Now the racing: :honk: :honk:
Race 1:
qualied 4th and made a great start, not easy in these beasts. now upto 3rd and approaching the hairpin. See someone go staight on and now upto 2nd. All going well for a couple of laps following Neil when approaching the right hander ofter the back straight he makes a slight mistake and I think I might be able to cut underneath him but get slightly too much gas a lose the back end, try to save it and hit the fence on the right hand side. Gather it all up and get back on track but wasn't aware of Peter coming up the inside of me and we touch, very sorry Peter :foot-in-mouth:, hope there was no damage done. I now have a suspension issue and after trying to drive though it for a lap decide to come into the pits to try a fix as I am now last. That didn't go well at all, as I forgot to add my pitstop presets before the race, and duly got a stop & go for speeding in the pits. Go round another lap and come into pits to serve it and it wouldn't let me so I thought best to end race there. Placed 6th in the end.
Race 2:
Started in 2nd, due to reverse grid. Not a good start and lose 2 places, now in 4th. Following Neil and Peter manages to get by Michael who started on pole. Now coming onto the start finish straight Michael makes a little mistake, after race found he was runing a big wing, both Neil and myself manage to get by him due to his lack of straight line speed. Now start to have a battle with Michael for 3rd place as he is fast down to the hairpin but I have the speed round the rest of the track. We swap place a few times, great racing Michael very clean, but eventually I manage to make a mistake at the hairpin, after pulling a bit of a gap. Didn't hit anything just got on the power a little eary and spun round on the grass. Gathered it all up and got back on track but saw Michael was exiting the hairpin so let him through. Now back to 4th again and following Michael until I get past him again only to make yet another mistake at the hairpin and let him past again. Now there's a gap opened up between us so get my head down to try and close it down. On lap 8 it seem Peter & Neil have some kind of problem as I pass Peter round the back of the track and Neil disappears of the radar. It's now just me a Michael battling for the top step of the podium. The next lap Michael makes a mistake near the end of the lap and I manage to get by him. I'm now in 1st place and on for my first win. Trying to keep my head and not make any mistakes, keep the lead and last lap to go. Then on the back straight I look at my fuel gauge and see that I don't have enough to finish the race, s**t, I'm going to miss out on my first win and duly have to park it 2 corners from the finishing line, bugger. :excruciating::excruciating::excruciating:
Oh well there's always the next race but as you know these chances can be few and far between. :frusty::frusty::frusty:
Once again, thx Yves for putting on this event, these machins are awsome and great to drive and thx to those that raced, you were brill.
see ya next time.
