You're a legend for posting this!
I'll say straight off the bat I'll be copping a fair few PP's this race, during my pole lap I got distracted by a crash into the 2nd chicane and missed the right hander, obviously gaining a large chunk of time. I backed off on the run down to Parabolica to give back the time gained but it was not enough. Then in trying to sort the problem with Motors out I lost the qualifying footage, so expect to see my name pop up in the log. Not a nice feeling.
I don't believe what happened was fair, so I let Zachery and Seth past on lap 1, giving up a sizable advantage after turn 1. The rest of the race was spent to-ing and fro-ing amongst each other as the insane slipstream made it impossible to pull away. The lead changed hands multiple times before Seth and I pitted on lap 7 for mediums. Zachery's front wing change ultimately eliminated him from the battle.
Eventually the duel turned into a cat and mouse game, not passing each other 50 times a lap, at no point did the gap between us ever reach a second. Finally Seth passed me into Ascari on our in lap, and now I was going to play the same refusal to overtake game as well. We were lapping nowhere near our peak speed and it allowed Zachery to catch right up. It was a lot of fun and the tension was rising. I saved enough fuel to launch a final lap charge when unfortunately Seth collided with Mark. A very unsatisfying end to a great race.
Well done to Zachery and especially
@Knuckles for getting back on the podium!
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