It was a very intense night of racing. With
@Bluemoon away I wanted to make some good points for the 2B championship in his absence.
@cola1001 was back this week so I knew I would have my work cut out trying to be top dog in Div 2B. I surprised myself by qualifying ahead of Cola and then holding him at bay for the first race to be first 2B guy home. From there it should have been plain sailing because winning the first race means you only need third in the reverse grid race to take out the overall points. My confidence was high because cola and I had finished well ahead of the other 2B guys so I was planning on just keeping cola in sight so that I was no more than 1 or two places behind him in the 2b ranks. It started to look good for me when cola had an incident and I got ahead of him, if I could stay there then the 2B honours would be mine Bwwaahahaa.
Things started to go a little off kilter then as I caught up with fitenkitten (
@Adam Wyman ) and he proved to be just that. I got tangled up trying to pass and lost a couple of places to faster guys coming through, then I had a spin all by myself and dropped to last. Things still looked OK though as Cola was second last so all was still good.
Then Cola started to make good ground on the rest and I was struggling along trying to keep him in sight. He caught and passed fiten then galloped off into the distance as I fluffed trying to pass fiten again and fell well back. By now
@Adronaught and
@disturboed had had dramas and were behind me. Arnold was leading 2B with Cola closing and I was trying my hardest to catch fiten again as I new if Cola got by Arnold and I didn't get by Fiten then my 2B win would be toast. It took a while to catch fiten and by the time I did Cola had gotten by Arnold and was on course to take the 2B honours. When I finaly caught Fiten it was a big struggle. He had an oversteer moment out of the 2nd last corner and I got beside him on the inside of the last corner, I struggle to give him enough room on the outside there but we got through OK and then ran side by side up to turn one, Adro had also caught us and was looking to take us both. I had the inside for turn one and braked as late as I dared but luckily for me Both Fiten and adro braked later than me and went into teh wall/ each other (not sure what went on as I was just hanging on trying not to mess up. That pass meant the I was able to get enough points for the 2B win but because Arnold was still between us for the outright places and Cola got into 4th with its extra couple of points he was able to best me by 1/2 a point for the overall div 2 places. Fair enough I suppose because my win in 2B was only by 1/2 a point as well. Very intense and close racing.
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