15-06-2021, 09:51 PM
Watkins Glen served up another great race day, spiced up by the return of Rik who is always very quick. I was very glad to get so close in qualification but couldn't quite make pole. It's hard to remember what happened in which race, but at the start of one of them DJ and I were side by side into turn one and I hoped being on the outside would give me a better exit, but we were still side by side through the esses and I made an evasive slide to the left to avoid contact. Thankfully Rik had a bit of a slide too so didn't carry enough speed to overtake us.
In the second race I found myself leading for a fair amount of it but towards the end I got a bit lost and thought I was at the fast left handler which doesn't require braking, but alas it was the tight left hander so I went very wide and my comfortable 4.5 second lead over Rik reduced to about 2 seconds. I wasn't able to stop him overtaking into the right-left flick and he got a well deserved win while I finished in second.
Looking forward to Suzuka.
In the second race I found myself leading for a fair amount of it but towards the end I got a bit lost and thought I was at the fast left handler which doesn't require braking, but alas it was the tight left hander so I went very wide and my comfortable 4.5 second lead over Rik reduced to about 2 seconds. I wasn't able to stop him overtaking into the right-left flick and he got a well deserved win while I finished in second.
Looking forward to Suzuka.