You should have seen the fight over the places behind you two as you headed off into the distance in the first 20 or so laps before boost dragged you back. Initially I managed to pick my way from 6th on the grid to 3rd behind you two after turn 1. I held that until the run down pit straight at the end of lap one when boost and slipstream brought a swarming pack all over me into the braking area for turn 1. Some of the guys didn't seem to realise you had to brake these monsters for the turn and continued on past the corner, the challenge for me was in not being taken with them.
I survived all that and the jostling through to turn three where I was used as braking device and turned around and then hit by half the field. I shrugged that off knowing that I could recover with boost on, I caught up to the snarling pack again and foolishly tried to pick my way through it. You marvel at running side by side with Jono but these guys were three and four wide at times, it probably wasn't as pretty a sight as you might think though. People kept spinning off, mostly involuntarily, and coming back up to the pack again. This went on for a couple of laps and I was starting to get into the swing of things and getting comfortable with all the rubbing, it can be seductive
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On about lap 4 I was bulldozed into the fence at the double switch back and was aggrieved enough to consider pulling the pin on the whole thing as I contemplated a lonely run in last again. But then I remembered boost so set off reinvigorated again. This time I did my best to avoid the close and personal racing ahead of me and only picked off people as they lost momentum enough for me to pass cleanly.
This race was all about the last lap so I made sure I had good tyres and clawed my way back from 25 seconds behind with about 5 to go to be only four seconds away from a win. The only trouble was the swarming pack between me and that ambition. Luckily a lot of guys seemed to get overexcited by it all and started to explore as yet unseen parts of the track opening the way for me to effortlessly glide into 5th place, I was content with that as I rounded the last corner only to see Peach and Blacko (the little one) using a lot of track as thye performed some sort of waltz towards to finish line. I had to make a quick decision under immense pressure, I decided it best not to get involved in their dance and dived for the pit wall to just squeak through into a podium place, yes one of those rare things around the emmo household of late. A podium place
I want to thank @Stucar for the brilliance of making this a boost race as it sure made it entertaining. I felt all sorts of emotions on the journey and was well satisfied at the end. I was only beaten by a couple of the top echelon of drivers and I felt proud.
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