My race summary, turned out pretty good this round with a round win and gives me some more ballast to accelerate down the hill at Bathurst with. Unfortunately I also need to drag it all up each lap so probably not ideal.
Race 1 I got lucky in qualy as I was on a real good lap only to have someone spin and park across the track exiting the last turn. I had to go to the dirt as there was nowhere else to go, went back to pit put on some tyres and had a couple more laps to get in a lap. I put in a fairly good lap at the end but was still surprised to get the pole without needing to go sub 1:46.
Off the line Cherno got to the inside of t1 and I hung on there until I saw it was only going to end badly so saved my battle for later in the race. Cherno had some good pace I just tried to make sure he didn't get away and keep some pressure on him to keep him honest. I saw the guys behind catching so I didn't want to make too many moves that may slow us even more and just stick close and make a move if I had a good clean look. About lap 8 Cherno got it loose exiting Aqua Minerali and made a good save to hang on to it, I had to back off to avoid contact but also wanted to try make the pass which I managed to do.
From there I tried to put the head down and set some quick clean laps to hopefully avoid any attacks from behind managing to hang on for the win. Below is a replay of the race 1 battle chasing Cherno for most of it.
Race 2 Qualy, I went out fairly late and lots of traffic all around. It was quite hard to get in a lap and I saw a few good times on the board, At the end I put in a reasonable lap to get into 4th with very close times all round. Was .178 off the pole but also only .599 from 10th.
Off the line it was a bit of a battle and I managed to make one spot but was then chasing Ed40t and Shaun who had some good pace. I battled ed for a bit trying to find a way past and managed to make a move outside at Tosa, a lap or 2 later he came in a bit hot into tosa and gave me a little tap. He redressed and caught a few others off guard so it was a bit messy but it didn't look like anyone lost out too badly there. Shaun was now a few seconds ahead and I just pushed on trying to set some quick laps and put on some pressure but he hung on for the win and second wasn't too bad in this field.
Last edited: Mar 21, 2017