Strange race indeed.
Qualified 5th. Race start was clean and kept 5th until we came up to turn 6 where @Bounty05 started to spin right in front of me. Was a bees dick away from getting collected. Managed to pull to the right at the last second.
Up to 4th and watched @stucar17 @garyw61 and @truss1984 pull a way ever so slowly.
Had a small gap back to 5th so was just concentrating on keeping it on track without losing too much time.
The guys in front had too much pace for me in the first half of the race so I stuck to trying to keep the gap behind me manageable.
The guys were playing russian roulette at the front, I had my own spin which let @dj2ca get within 1-2 seconds of me.
Managed to hold onto 4th and slowly started to pull a gap again. Thankfully the leaders had their own problems and gaz ended up gifting me 3rd. Stu and truss were having a game of cat and mouse which allowed me to tag onto the back of truss.
Had an awesome lap or 2 of racing against him. First move was a dive under brakes into the last chicane and going side-by-side through it, he got a better drive out so he was able to maintain 2nd.
Then coming into the 1st corner another dive under brakes on the inside, not enough exit speed to take the position outright, and truss had a slightly better line leading to turn 2, so I swung the car over to the right so that I could get better exit speed.
Pulled off an over-under move and had the inside line coming into turn 3 while neck to neck with truss. Went 2 wide again through turns 4 and 5, but I had better traction exiting 5 to finally take the position off him with about 7 laps to go.
Pulled away ever so slightly over the next few laps while doing my best to chase down stu when I threw it away again and back down to 4th I went.
Luck seemed go my way when a battling truss and dj had a moment which allowed me back into 2nd with a good 3 or 4 second gap when they got going again. Decided to take it easy and just make sure I bring the car home when all of a sudden I see @Jim_aka_The_Man looming in 3rd and closing in quickly. Lap 21 he was about 4 seconds behind, then 3 seconds back on lap 22. Seemed like he was on a dead set rampage when the gap was down to 2 seconds coming onto the straight for the last time.
Fortunately he pushed himself into a spin at turn 11 and although I still had a comfortable 2 odd seconds on him still, I was even more relieved to see him leave me alone lol.
Crazy race and am very happy to take away 2nd. Well done to @stucar17 on the win and @Jim_aka_The_Man for rounding out the podium.
Last edited: Nov 19, 2017