Quali did sort of go as planned for me as I knew Pinoy was mighty quick all week. Was a little surprised to start ahead of Turbo, so it was a front row start with Jim and Tank close behind ( worse case scenarios were running thru my head!)
Obviously played more of a part than I had hoped as I fell back to 4th at the start before Turbo? got a penalty and I was in behind Jim and Pinoy. Closed right up on Jim after getting a good run out of the parabolica and made my move. Jim out braked himself defending which gave me a little breathing space. By this time Pinoy had a 5 sec lead so I then worked on bringing the gap down, which I did to 2.5 secs until I had a bad lap and it was up to 7 sec before I pitted.
As I exited the pits I could see Ad coming up close down the straight. He passed me just before the braking marker ( which we both got a bit greedy and copped a penalty ) but by the 2nd chicane I was on the outside of him under brakes and just squeezed past ( sorry mate, got a massive slide on turn in and we just touched ) Pinoy pitted a lap after me and the gap was down to 6 sec. I worked hard to close it down, but I could see he was lagging heaps in front of me, so I just decided to worry about my own race. I did get the gap down to 2.5 sec again but then I noticed we had some prying eyes join the room in the form of Blindman and my team boss CAGM and I hit the barrier just before the first chicane
After that I just cruised home knowing I would be celebrating my first championship!
Bad luck to Jim on missing out on 2nd in the championship after a dreadful race, but big congrats to Tank on a great first season!
Big thank you to everybody for an exciting season and I wish you all the best
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