I had zero confidence going into last night but managed to get a good tow off CAGME to take pole. Plan was to secure Fubble and CAGME positions in the championship.
Managed a medium pace in 1st stint to keep the field nice and tight and keep Vic behind as we knew if he got through he would drive off to victory lane and threatened Fubbles and CAGME final positions. But Vic had a spin About lap 5 and that was pretty much him done for the night.
Some nice racing with Ursine from then on for P1 as he jumped me in the 1st pit stop. But the real battle was the last stint with Max and Ursine. Max coming out of the pits in P1!! He had just stayed quite saving fuel at the back of the leading pack being a slip stream leech (clever) and Ursine putting a lap earlier that Max and myself to take P2 heading into the home stretch. I wasn’t really impressed with how I had controlled the race but found myself sitting P3 with 9 laps remaining.
So now the fight begins! I thought I’m not going to let these guys just steal this victory without a fight so started to apply pressure. Ursine drove beautifully as he was getting a tow from Max which made it hard for me to get right up behind down the main straight which Caused me to out brake myself into turn 1 for a few laps. 2laps to go and I was right on Ursine ass coming out of turn 2 and got to the inside. He was getting a tow from Max but a braked late and Ursine gave me just enough room to squeeze by but I had to take some grass, I think we just touched with my rear to his from but didn’t seem to unsettle either of us.
One down, one to go! Now I had 1.5 laps to hunt Max. I had wanted a battle with Max all season and now I had my wish! I got slip coming into turn one with Ursine close behind. I gave his ass a little tap to say hi but didn’t unsettle him and and was all over him like drunken school girl through turn 3 Coming down the straight toward turn 4 Max left a bit of room on the inside with me getting a nice tow, I sold him some tasty candy on the outside with he took and u swept back to the inside giving me track position coming into turn 4. I squeezed by (just) to be side by side and left him just enough on the outside. Together we raced through T5 and I left him a cars width down the short straight to T6 where he rubbed me a few times to push me over to give himself more room. He went in late and I did the switch back again
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this story is taking forever to write) leaving me the inside into T7. Max went in deep again but I now had him clearly behind. All this time Ursine was right behind probably licking his lips thinking he was going to steel the win. Max gave me a little bump into the last hairpin causing me to almost run off the road but he backed off to not attempt a pass. I knew something like that was coming just glad I didn’t go off on the grass and then I dove off to take the win.
Best race I’ve had so far in Rooz and glad it was with Max and Ursine who race hard and fair and make you earn it.
Thanks to Fubbles and Emmo for hosting the rooms and finding a solution so everyone could race. We had a few hiccups at the start of the season but they sorted it all out.
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