I had a reasonably good race. Beats took pole again and he and moon on the front row both opted for RM, 7den, anders and I were on RS with peersy behind me on RM.
At turn 1 7den got past beats and moon and at turn 2 I took 2nd from beats. there were three cars that came to various levels of grief in the crowd at turn 2.
By the end of lap 1 7den led from me, anders, beats, volvo up from 8th on RM and Goof from 11th. On the 3rd lap 7den clanged the outside wall on the final corner and I drafted past him into the lead. Unfortunately in my effort to create a gap over the next couple of laps, I mucked up turn 4 and 7den took me around the outside of turn 6 with anders taking us both on the inside. Razor then drafted passed me next lap to put me back to 4th just ahead of beats. On that lap Razor and I then both ran wide at 4 and beats passed both of us.
Things weren't going too well as I was now back in 5th about 4 seconds from the lead with beats ahead of me on RM. .
On lap 8 I caught and passed beats and set about moving towards the front again and by lap 10 was back up to 3rd and with dragon and goof putting beats back to 6th things were looking up again. On lap 11 anders spun which moved me up to 2nd about 2 seconds behind 7den.
By lap 14 I was able to draft past 7den to retake the lead. Next lap dragon and razor pitted and then goof and 7den on lap 18. That moved beats up to 2nd and he was still within 9 seconds of me. Beats then pitted for his RS on lap 19 and I had a glorious lead of 35 seconds back to 7den for a lap.
I pitted lap 20 for my RM and came out 7.6 seconds up on dragon and 7den and beats 4th.
By lap 23 beats was up to 2nd and only 7.2 seconds back, I knew I was doomed. He caught me by lap 32 and put a gap of just over 4 seconds on me by the flag. dragon fly was about 4 seconds back in third and then a big gap back to a battling Goof, 7den and Razor.
Two wins on the trot puts beats 13 points ahead of me now and I doubt I can do much about it. He is quicker and is getting good fuel and tyre life so I have nothing up my sleeve to try and turn it around, I just have to try to get faster and make less little mistakes.
Last edited: Jul 26, 2021