Well, I must say, I found myself reluctantly switching into the LMP2 thing after the GT3 category was cancelled on account of too few entries. My first time racing with those LMP2s, and like Ernie said, they are indeed really 'hectic'. Not normally my thing. However, I found myself warming up to it and, after all was said and done, I really enjoyed the race.
After getting bumped around at T1, I found myself working up the field as drivers seemed to be going off or having incidents around me. Found myself holding onto 6th, but Paul and some others behind were on my trail closing in on me little by little. Finally, changing tires seemed to be a bad decision (unlike Ernie's chain of good decisions) which cost me 3 spots. Damn, that tire change takes forever, but I thought for sure that one set of tires wouldn't hold up under the intense stress those cars and that track must put tires under. Chalk that up to learning experience, I'll stick with one set of hards in the future..
Great fighting with Dave, who I was having a hell of a time catching. I was trying to put the pressure on him, lap after lap, but he didn't choke. Finally, an opportunity arose when Jarod seemingly came out of nowhere (or maybe I just need to pay better attention to my mirrors
), and got through us giving me a chance to get by as well.
In the end, I was pleased to finish among the 'best of the rest'. Didn't crash or go off once which I was happy about. Nice job to the guys on the podium, congrats all. Thanks again to Brian for organizing. Can't believe I'm saying this, but I'd be down for another race in those cars.
Now, back to the same track tonight for the a race with the TA2 cars! As I mentioned, practicing with those cars here was good training, since they are even more difficult to control and handle than the LMP2 cars! But man, they are fun to drive.
See you on the next one!
