03-11-2022, 08:20 PM
For my part, I was surprised to Qualy 2nd for R1 as I’d been really struggling in my afternoon practice.
R1 was pretty straightforward to start with - Ed and I got away well at the front and kept out of trouble for quite a while - but I started to wear out (or overheat + not sure as I only look at the live timing chart while racing) the front left and Cruicky crept up on me. Got a little messy defending on worn tyres but I *think* it was all ok (I’m away for a few days and can’t check the replays) - I knew the last lap was going to be tough though - hope I didn’t force Cruicky into his expensive cut (?)
R2 - lucky start - chaos everywhere but I (largely) managed to avoid it (might have kissed a couple of cars coming through, but if so, they were already out of control). I think the running order was Jonathan followed by Tim and Giorgio in the Javelins? The latter two weren’t *too* hard to get by (that pesky right-left onto the back straight is tricky though and the Mustang wasn’t a guaranteed shoe-in to out drag them). Jonathan was likely to give up his position come the back straight but ran wide early in the next lap and I was safe through.
I had to push quite hard to maintain the gap to the bumperless Cruicky - quite how he kept up that pace with (presumably understeer), I don’t know. Very glad to get another win though!
R1 was pretty straightforward to start with - Ed and I got away well at the front and kept out of trouble for quite a while - but I started to wear out (or overheat + not sure as I only look at the live timing chart while racing) the front left and Cruicky crept up on me. Got a little messy defending on worn tyres but I *think* it was all ok (I’m away for a few days and can’t check the replays) - I knew the last lap was going to be tough though - hope I didn’t force Cruicky into his expensive cut (?)
R2 - lucky start - chaos everywhere but I (largely) managed to avoid it (might have kissed a couple of cars coming through, but if so, they were already out of control). I think the running order was Jonathan followed by Tim and Giorgio in the Javelins? The latter two weren’t *too* hard to get by (that pesky right-left onto the back straight is tricky though and the Mustang wasn’t a guaranteed shoe-in to out drag them). Jonathan was likely to give up his position come the back straight but ran wide early in the next lap and I was safe through.
I had to push quite hard to maintain the gap to the bumperless Cruicky - quite how he kept up that pace with (presumably understeer), I don’t know. Very glad to get another win though!
