I had some great battles last night, an interesting race for me for a change. I started 6th on softs and after a few laps of close battling I was comfortably in 4th after a few others visited the scenery and let me through. I was keeping up with
@Easyprey007 in front in third and was hoping to go about 4 laps longer than him and snaffle his podium position. I was into the lead as everybody changed tyres by lap 11 and I was going to lap 14 on my softs. Incey was only gaining a little on his new RMs about 6 - 7 seconds back and there was a big gap back from him so I was confident I would come out in a good place for the run to the flag.
Unfortunately on my last lap on the softs I ran wide at the 2nd degner and didn't think much of it as I powered on and headed slowly back on line, Then things turned bad as the barrier under the overpass leapt out a smacked me big time, I thought I was well clear of it. That lost me about 14 seconds and allowed Incey into the lead again. After I pitted I was back to 5th as NAACS, Easy and Moon passed me while I changed to the mediums. Easy and moon weren't too far ahead and I had 4 laps younger tyres so set about closing in on them.
@mmm_homebrew had started on mediums and was charging home on softs so before I could close the gap to those in front he was on my bumper and seemed rather keen on passing. We battled furiously for a few laps and then when he stuck his nose underneath me at the the left hander at the top of the esses I had nowhere to go but off track as missing the apex by that extra width put me way too wide at the exit. I spun and Brew waited, I'm not sure whether that was necessary because I probably should have yielded when I couldn't get to the apex and let him through, Either way we were locked in battle again but eventually an over steer moment from me out of the hairpin let him by.
From there I had lost too much time with the spin so I trailed home 6th. I nearly lost that though as I was a little careless at turn one on the last lap and ran wide and Cyber almost took advantage of that.
@incey dominated things for a well deserved win.
@NAACS had 2nd well covered and
@Easyprey007 did an excellent job to come home in 3rd ahead of guys who were a little quicker on lap times but couldn't beat him. I had hoped to be right with him until the end but it didn't work out that way unfortunately.
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