Front row start beside Ben was good yet surprising good qual for me,even more surprising was joining the grid to see Bens car in front of me about 10-10m facing me sort of!?
,he limped off to the side as the lights started changing leaving me a clean solo run to T1,early doors and its Kjell behind,which is becoming very familiar to me in racent races
(hehe),he had Ryo chasing closely so i made hay while they fought,the gap ended up suddenly getting very large so enjoyed just pushing the car doing a nice stint of consistent laps,then a slight ease off to finish,it was a runaway Lenno V8 win!!?....now theres a sentence i dont get much chance to type up here ;D.
Race 2 from 6th and really got a flyer off the line and right up to 2nd slotting in behind Ryo at T1,that was a sweet moment ;p,found i had rather big old lumps of pace on our Ryo at a few crucial turns,this was another surprise of the night really,where did Ryos V8 pace go at this track? :s,ive become very used to seeing the back of that SuperCheap car for a while now,but usually getting smaller,not bigger filling me screen with back bumper! :o,my first 2 attempts at passing were a bit rubbish really,soz Ryo for what must have seemed like silly big miles back lunges,but i just couldnt believe how early you were braking at some places,especially with my quite famous king of the early brakers title an all? :/,eventually i think i scared Ryan in to going wide with previous "malarky" so got through to the lead,it was then i noticed how close Ben had got to us
,he arrived at Ryan and was past instantly,and proceeded to hunt me down seriously,ofcourse my main loss was the big braking zones
,i raised my game a bit and was almost holding him off ok,but just crumbled a little going a touch wide and slow at T2 and he was through,again i started pushing above my capabilities a bit at times to try and keep and touch and make a fight of this to the line,the best i could do was get it down to -400 behind,the worst it got was 1.1,finished -700 behind Ben Crooks at the line,i will take that any old day of the week tbh
)),both races were excellent,its been a long long time since ive felt so good in the V8's,extra thanks to Ben sharing a setup!.
Thank You Ryan &
RD