Easily the most fun I’ve had this season, sadly the 5th round in a row that’s slipped through my fingers.
I held the advantage in the early stages, by being on the harder compound first, I could go harder on the softer tyre later on for longer. Unfortunately the rain shower put paid to that.
It was a great battle up front, a mistake in dirty air allowed Majacko to break free and pull a gap, but once his tyres went off I began the charge. In hindsight I should have tried harder to pass in order to try and force the issue on strategy. The skies were very blue as my stint ended, my game still suggested I would exit the pits in first so I assumed Majacko had a penalty of some sort or a spin. Except no, when I did pit, I came out 13 bloody seconds behind. And the clouds suddenly got black. And Jeff now decides to tell me rain is coming shortly. Thanks you useless prick.
I thought the rain would start falling at the very end as this is one of the fastest races on the calendar and the computer had the rain showing at 90+ mins. If I knew the rain would come that early, I would have stopped well before lap 30 and had much better track position.
That’s most of the excuses done with, I began chasing like a madman, however like so often this season luck was not on my side, as soon as I began to take a second a lap out of the lead, the rain began to fall. A switch onto inters left me 13 seconds behind somehow, undoing all the hard work I did on the Supers. Not sure how I lost around 4 seconds in a pit stop but ok. (I might be wrong on that bit of info, can’t quite remember now lol) My pace was very strong, I had a sniff of the win. I smelt a wounded animal but I ran out of laps. Still I was happy to cross the line just a second down on Majacko after not much went right in middle part of the race. I had a lot of fun. Lesson learnt, always have track position. I was outsmarted and he thoroughly deserved the win.
The title is looking more and more like an impossibility now, nothing less than two 1sts will do.
Last edited: Jun 15, 2018