tamiyauk wrote:What position were you in after the spin? Sounds like a stormin run if you were at the back?
The spin dropped me back to 8th position, but the front runners this year are fast
and consistent which made them difficult to catch.
By the last lap 2nd and 3rd positions were practically touching they were so close and a final lunge at the chicane saw one of them taking the more direct route over the grass, but ultimately not benefitting from it!
I finished in sight of the top three and had been closing the gap by around three seconds a lap
(it's likely they'd been held up by back markers that I passed without being slowed down)
In the second race I started fifth on the grid
- my poor qualifying times were down to too much pressure in the tyres causing understeer.
I gained two positions on the Revett straight due to getting a better line through Sear Corner and then outright grunt
.
After that it was another lap to chase down second place whom I forced wide again at Sears and took outright on the straight.
I was even beginning to catch Sam up until a couple of laps later I made a mistake at Bombhole that must have looked like the D1 drift finals! I scrubbed off a lot of speed and that was pretty much the end of my challenge for first place.
I needed Sam to make a mistake to give me any chance of gaining on him, and he just wouldn't oblige!
Rogue
