An interesting race to say the least, however qualifying was a huge disappointment, offline I did a an 11.0 so to only manage an 11.4 was a bummer. Then the start! Wowee, not sure why I forgot to put in gear but damn, that error was embarrassing.
I was relieved to get past Nigel and Knuckles, however I'm sorry if I caused you to spin Knuckes, it was super tight. Soon I had Jason and Spectre in my sights, after an error by the former I was up into 5th. Spectre was pulling away but I realised we were eating chunks into the leaders. Once all the soft runners pitted, Seth and I were running 1st and 2nd. I got the gap down to 2 seconds when we both put the hard tyres on. Weirdly though I came out more than 5 seconds behind him, with all the work to do again.
Zachery was keeping him honest on his older tyres, while Benny sped off. I was gaining heavily on the fighting pair when Benny came out just behind me, going to the end. I figured with him being much faster he would carry me towards the top two, so I let him through on the back straight, or tried to. I moved to the inside but so did he, and then he messed up the next corner so that was time wasted. Then 2 laps after I let him through again, he pitted! I couldn't work out why.
Once again I started to gain on Zachery and Seth, as Zachery went for the undercut, a decision that won him the race. I pushed like hell to get up to him, but I pitted first to get the undercut. It didn't quite work but I was now firmly in DRS range. We spent the next 15 laps or so nose tail. I let my fuel catch up so I could launch an attack. On lap 70, I turned the wick up and got a perfect run out of the Senna S. I pulled alongside and was ahead, but Seth broke later into turn 4, and we both ran wide as a result. In my efforts to get back on track we made contact and I was in the wall.
Luckily the damage wasn't terminal so I limped home for 3rd. Relieved but disappointed I lost more points after the pace I had. Super job @Zachery, unbelievable drive.
One more to go guys, lets make it a good one.
Last edited: Feb 24, 2017