Thanks Warrior!
That was a tuff one! I knew it would be, but also didn’t think I could pull off a win… I’m still surprised myself!
Quali was alright for me, I chose to do the Soft stint first starting in P3, 2 tenths down on pole that was ok I was pretty happy with that… The start of the race I got off to a good start but some reason I got abit of lag and it slowed me down a heap! Fastboy and Alpha got past me into T1… I was able to get into a rhythm pretty quick, the next lap Alpha went wide into Luffield and I was able to sneak up the inside.. The next lap after that I was able to get past Fastboy on the inside at The Loop, from here Warrior had about a 2-3 second gap, I just put my head down and tried to close the gap to Warrior and Dan before the first pit stops (during this time Dan dropped out), I ended up getting on the bumper of Warrior on lap 10… Then my tyres were gone, and so was warrior.. Pulling about 1 second gap back out I had to do something, I knew you lost a heap lot of time if you went for another lap so I made a choice to pit and it was the right one!
Warrior pitted a lap later, and got done a little in the pits by traffic losing about a second. I had done a pretty good out lap as I knew I had a chance to be in front… And I was.. I had about a 1.6 second lead I couldn’t believe it! I put my head down and just tried to be consistent as I could be, I ended up pulling a 2.4 second gap over 8 laps and then it happened… I lost concentration within 2 laps Warrior was in my mirrors… On lap 20 Warrior had a go at the end of Wellington Straight into Brooklands, he went a little too deep and I was able to cut back on the inside!
Then I had 4 laps of fighting off Warrior.. FUN!
My tyres where shot, Mustafur was coming like at us like a steam train, my pants were starting to turn brown and didn’t know how much longer I could hold off Warrior and IF Mustafur was going to catch us, could he get past?… I kept faith Mustafur wasn’t going to catch us and made my car as wide as possible placing the car in all the right spots!
So far so good, I was able to keep Warrior behind me, he was putting so much pressure on me trying to make me crack but it just wouldn’t happen! Then onto the last lap he was in striking distance and waiting very patiently and he made his move out of Chapel onto Hanger Straight, he got a better exit and we were side by side I had the inside and I knew I had track position and I could still make it work into Stowe however he was still there (giving as much room as possible), we were still side by side and he got a better exit than me he got a touch in front (I was thinking NOOOOOOO all this hard work he is not taking this from me!!!!) into the vale I wanted the outside into vale so I could try to get the inside into T17… I got it! Perfect braking! I don’t think Warrior was expecting it! I had the inside into T17 and had the run into the final corner across the line… wow.. it was soooo intense!
That would have to be the most fun and exciting finish for my ROOZ career EVER! Side by side all the way from Hanger Straight into the Vale… The 1st position changed 6 TIMES on the last lap in the last few corners!
I want to praise Warrior for his hard clean racing! You always great fun and fair to run side by side with the wheel!
Also WD to MINT for the FL, Bad Luck to Dan for dropping out. Of course you had a lot of pace as usual and I’m sure it would have been a different ending had you not dropped out…
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