Well qualy didnt go to plan, started 6th out of 12 starters.
tried to stay out of trouble at T1 but ended up jammed into the barrier and was dead last and knowing I needed to finish 4th to take the championship my first thought was its over.
But I put my race face on and got into a rhythm by the 2nd lap I managed to get back to 8th...By Lap 5 i was into 5th with pat, nathan, web and purple in front.
By lap 9 i was in 3rd after pat ran into the sand at the first lesmo and a gap to purple in P1 of 13 seconds with webnomad in P2. At this point I decided to change my pit strategy pit on lap 15.
Web pitted on lap 14 so i tried to chuck in a quick time to close the gap to him and maybe get the undercut, It didn't quite work but I had closed the gap to about .6 once i rejoined in P6.
Had some good racing with webnomad in that second stint
until I managed to get a bit of air between us and by start of lap 23 I was right on purple's bumper after he made a mistake at ascari. I got a bit ambitious at T1 on lap 23 as I missed my brake marker and nearly t-boned purple but he had the sense to realise what was happening and just hung wide to avoid carnage.
Was in for some good racing with purple until he spun at the 2nd lesmo gifting me 2nd but this dropped purple back to 5th.
Pitted on lap 28 with a gap to pat of 12 seconds but knew he had to pit for hards and fuel. I put the softs on and 80L of fuel and rejoined in P6
Webnomad had caught back up and we battled for a few laps (nice overtake into ascari on Lap 29
) until lap 33 where I managed to start pulling away ever so slowly.
By the start of lap 34 i was in 3rd chasing pat in 2nd who was on hards and sooby in 1st who was yet to stop for the 2nd time. Pat had an off at ascari gifting me 2nd and sooby pitting at the end of lap 34 put me into the lead.
For the remaining laps I just tried to stay consistent with no mistakes, Lap 41 saw me catch Devilman and maximus who let me pass with ease (Thanks fellas
).
What a race, You blokes are awesome to race with and well done to
@PurpleDog and
@webnomad for filling the other podium steps.
Big shout out to
@pat65 and
@Dev1lman_87 for hosting
To the mod team for all the work they do in organising these races and our wonderful sponsors
@emmo46 @Hatfield for all your charts and graphs
I may be back for season 8 if there's enough interest but if everyone keeps jumping to Pcars I may cross over to Assetto Corsa on PC...watch this space
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