I'm mistaken then I thought Mitja lost it under braking after the long straight oops
Grats Mitja
Also I beat you Gary
No you are not, I really don`t know what happened there, but I started to brake as usual. When I realised I was still going 100km/h and 10m before the turning point. I said "****, this is not going to be good", I went straight to stop the car a bit more, and crashed a bit into the fence over the track.
I still don`t have a clue what went wrong, maybe I was more concentrated to pass you guys both in one time, so I locked up front wheels - that`s the only explanation. I remember I had there a lot of braking problems befores in Caterham, always had to be very gentle. Maybe this time I wasn`t - and the result was "only 4th palce in 2nd race. It could easily be 2nd, but that`s racing. Even if you are so much faster and sure you can win, there is always something out there that can go wrong. and this time it had gone.
Qually: Gary, that was really an impressive qually session, even I was enjoying a big time. From the beginning I didn`t know I can pull 1.57, but on the end, it turned out that can even go a mid 1.57, but I couldn`t put together a perfect lap, so I stayed on my 1.57.9, which still is a good one, but as it has turned out, it wasn`t good enough for a pole
. I have to congratulate to Gary, as he said some post above, with a bit of draft help from someone on the back straight, he pulled out a better lap time and so the pole position, a tenth better then mine.
1st race one Gary from the pole started well, even if I did a bit better take off. I let him to stay infront, cause I didn`t want to cause any trouble on the beginning and both with cold tyres (like everyone else). Later on 1st lap I managed to pass him on the back straight. He was right behind me, right to the hairpine, where he did a brave maneuver and passed me on the inside into the hairpine. I saw his intention and gave him a room on the inside. But I would never try to pas someone who is fast like me on that spot- it`s too narrow and dangerous. Anyway with skills of both of us, we managed to go through and he was infront me, again. I said to myself, crap, I will have to pass him one more time
But I was more lucky this time. Some seconds later, he spun and I was again on 1st place. What a shame for you Gary and even for me. I would like a tough battle, but I was robbed for it. I still had some battles for a few laps, cause some guys passed me when Gary spun. On the end I won by a huge margine.
2nd race, I won`t even mention anymore, it was a disaster. Good start, a messed up 1st lap, I was twice hit from behind, and lost places. I thing after 1st lap I was on 8th place or something. For a failure, the blame falls mostly on me - I was the one who outbraked myself on the end of back straight, and crashed there in the fence. Btw, I was even surprised there wasn`t bigger damage on the blue Caterham.
Thx guys for some good racing and especially to Gary which really showed me some pace
Overall, it was a fun and good event, so I am looking forward to race with you guys. I will do a WTCC (from `87) at Macau on Tuesday, if someone wants to do it.
Edit: Nice video Gary, and nice passing too.
BTW: I would like to do another Legends race with these cars, but on an old track!
bye
