Two races, two 9th places. At least I'm consistent.
The only practice I'd had here was during the Qualifying round a fortnight ago, so I was as shocked as anyone when I stuck it on P2 in qualifying. The lap was aboslutely mega and I could not have gotten it any more perfect so full credit to
@COME_AND_GET_ME7 for still managing to be 0.3s up at that point.
Unfortunately I let all that hard work count for nothing by completely buggering up the start. I lost focus for a half second before the start, had a massive, MASSIVE brain fade and hit the gas without my foot on the brake. Sorry for scaring a few people with my slow start, it certainly wasn't intentional! What it did mean is that I was down to 12th after Lap 1. But I knew that if I stuck to my lines and held my nerve I had decent enough pace to make up a few spots, and I did just that with a lot of great battles as I made my way up through the field.
It all probably reached breaking point for me on Lap 12 when
@Blunty075 and I had a coming together at the corkscrew. Thanks again mate for jumping straight onto the party chat after the race and explaining your situation, and I'm glad we were able to talk through it and move on. Terrific sportmanship, honesty and communication. By Lap 12 I was starting to think about tyres and having no practice I probably pulled the trigger and pittied too early on Lap 14, judging by how early I was compared to the people around me. What that meant was that by the end of the race I had a substantial grip differential to the guys like
@sparklehead83,
@Peersy and
@Johnnybgood around me and I had to defend like hell towards the end. 7th place with about 5 laps to go turned into 9th once sparkle found his way through and I didn't quite close the door enough to a Johnny lunge down the inside on the last corner of the last lap.
Overall I'm much enjoying these cars than last season - they are much more forgiving if you make a mistake and just can't be driven flat out all the time, which I prefer. Thanks for a great race everyone!
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