A not so great night for myself unfortunately. Also not being confident in doing the no stop, I opted for Softs first stint, also planned on pitting lap 9 to go over to Mediums... but alas it wasn't meant to be.
Surprised myself with 3rd place on the qualifying, felt pretty confident, and was ready to get into it. Unfortunately there was a lot of battling going for 3rd position in the very early stages (some nice clean racing but), where I was trying to just hold the position, or stick behind RPM, but the battling ruined my tyres. This dropped us waaay back from the leaders, so that was unobtainable (maybe working together instead of battling may have worked out in the long run
). A few little incidents put me back a little bit, wasn't positioned right for the turns due to some side by side racing, and then alas as Rolls and I were side by side, on a right hand turn, he turned left a little before the right hander (not malicious), and unfortunately that was enough to knock me off into the sand, dropping me back to the back of the pack.
That was my race done basically, worn tyres from relentless battling in the first few laps and then the push, I was pretty much out, and this was about lap 8. So pitted in, and just pretty much kept it steady until the finish line...
Well done to the podium, Monkey, Nemo and Feccles just a cut above.
See you all next week
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