Well, what an intense night for myself last night! Sounds like also there was a few battles throughout (Can't wait to look through the replay for this one)
Xtr3me Motorsports had a change up this week with our drivers jumping into different cars (except for Dids who stuck with his Mustang), to maximize the performance from each car due to all of us having a slightly different driving style, and our knowledge (or lack there of) the track for the night.
Qualifying was pretty good for us as a team, the green train holding positions 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th. Some of us opted for a medium start (myself was one), and some started with the softs. As predicted our two boys on softs cleared the field after a few intense laps from the beginning while Rolls and myself battled with Noodles and a few others who came close when the battling got intense. As per normal, I was ensuring I wasn't burning through the fuel while battling, and was able to hold off until lap 16 to jump into the softs - figured the longer stint on the mediums while holding a decent pace would mean I would have better tyres for any potential battles near the end of the race (and WHAT a battle it was...)
Coming out of the pits in 7th position, I was a bit worried that my late pit would have put me too far behind the leaders, and was hoping to try and make a position or two... but wasn't counting on it... until I started to catch them pretty quickly. After a couple of laps, I was able to catch up to my team mates Peersy and Dids who were running mediums at that point, and skoot past on the home straight. This left me with Ursine about 5 seconds up the road, and about 6 laps or so to go. I put my foot down (put an extra lap or so in fuel at the pit stop so I could burn it), got the fastest lap while chasing him down and finally with 3 laps to go it was all on. Ursine and myself swapping positions about 3 or 4 times, clean fair racing with no bumps - it's what I love about racing with him - this is not the first time, nor will it be the last time we have these battles.
Last lap I was right behind Ursine for the whole thing, I was sweating bullets ensuring I didn't accidentally knock him off, or myself off while in the dirty air... came around that last turn with him right in front of me, and I revved the sh!t out of the car, pushed out of the slip stream to get up along side him, and just slowly made my way up beside him. Managed to get 2nd JUST as we crossed the line, and I finally was able to breath.
What a fantastic end to an intense race
@UrsineSaturn9 , thank you for that battle (I wouldn’t have cared if you had got 2nd, it was just such an epic battle at the end of that intense race…)
Well done to
@gtkingx who got out the front and didn’t look back, nice work. Also well done to Ursine rounding out the podium.
Thanks everyone for coming out, it’s fantastic to see a full grid every week, really makes the series that much more interesting.
Next race, the Mountain! This should produce some interesting racing! Have a good one guys
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