First of all congrats to Benny simply had to much pace for me tonight.
The race was very interesting on my end. The start wasn't the best and myself Razor and Seth went 3 wide into the first corner, Knowing it was a long race i backed out and entered the first corner in 4th. However my misery would begin as my pace in the dray was crap. Zachary got by me and relegated me to 5th before crashing out at the hairpin in spectacular fashion and giving me 4th again in the process.
For me the Ultra Soft tyre wore out more quickly than i'd thought so i made the call to come in for SS tyre and hope the rain wouldn't come until around lap 35 where the Ultras might be forced to pit again, However this didn't happen as the rain fell around lap. Whilst this was happening Jono who had gotten ahead on the soft tyre spun at the hairpin and i had nowhere to go which put me behind Nigel, I got the most BS penalty ever by running slightly wide at the final corner giving me a 10 second penalty i honestly nearly quit at that point i was so pissed.
The rain started falling around lap 27-28 and in the process caught Seth who decided to put me into the wall around lap 30 after the 2nd DRS straight giving me a orange front wing (Whilst i know it wasn't intentional at all it didn't look great for you on my POV). Ended up pitting onto the inters which excited me since we've only had 2 wet races this whole series and was in a lonely 4th behind all my other championship rivals.
However something slightly peculiar happened that would even baffle me. All 3 drivers ahead come out onto the wets whilst i was still on inters and despite the "Heavy Rain" i passed both Razor (2nd) and Benny (1st) for the lead of the race and over the next few laps am gaining several seconds a lap over the guys on the wets. To give you guys an idea i was doing consistent laps around 2 minutes even compared to the guys on full wets doing 2.04s-2.06s?? Yeah i have no idea either
Anyway i see no point in pitting whatsoever and to be honest i was trying to make it to the end on the inters. I'd built up a 15 second margin to Benny behind and a 30 second gap to Razor all was looking good until around lap 49-50 where i could feel the weather getting worse and over the 2 laps Benny gained 3 seconds on me and with this in mind i decided to give up the chance of a miracle victory and a shot at the championship and pit. Saying that i came out ahead of Seth and just behind Razor who previously before the rain were around 30 seconds ahead so it was effectively a huge overcut. I literally redefined physics haha
The final 10 laps were spent battling Razor for 2nd and on lap 54 i admittedly divebombed at the hairpin and thankfully was left room by Razor and went into second place. However with the BS penalty i'd gotten early in the race at the end i finished 3rd and sadly my quest for a championship is now over and 3rd will be where i finish this season a major improvement from last season.
Because i now cannot be beaten or beat anyone else in the standings i've decided i won't be racing in Australia for the final round of the series. I won't go into to much detail but the surgeons i've been seeing suspect i've badly torn the muscle in my lower abdomen and will have to wait several weeks for them to mend and i feel it's best to rest now before season 3 begins.
I have to thank everyone who has run in this series,It's be an absolute pleasure racing with you all (Maybe not Benjamin, If you ran season 1 at Hungary you'll get the joke). It's been a real fun series to race in and hopefully this will continue into F1 2017 really looking forward to it.
And for both Benny and Razor good luck in the final race. Admittedly you 2 deserved to be the ones contending for the title. See you guys for season 3
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