| The early battle for pole emerged between new boy Harjan and myself. We both held pole until Graeme arrived & duly posted a 1:19:95. The battle was then on for 2nd! Harjan took it by 0.05 secs with a 1:20:94 | Then GPL style events influenced the race in a big way. I went out for a few laps with a full fuel load prior to the race start. Only to find Karissa in a big spin whilst going for a qualifying lap. |
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| We touch - no big deal - Spins & offs are all part of qualifying. I go into a 720 spin ending up just off the track | I go back to the pits, rather than shift-r in front of someone. To my dismay I am DQ'd for reversing on the track |
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| As I sit there in disbelief, the chat lights up with comments about me flying. I knew nothing about this thinking it was referring to the spin. The replay shows what was going on. | I get dumped back into the pit stall with one wheel. I've no idea what happened - I certainly did not experience it first hand - it appeared to happen whilst the DQ board was up. |
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| I looked at the spin incident again but saw nothing - others were replaying the weird incident - crashing the game for ZZ, Karissa & Graeme. ZZ made it the others did not. This rather overshadowed the fine battle between ZZ.... | ... and John for fourth (now third with my DQ) with 1:22s |
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| An unfamiliar position - where's the flag? Up front the pole is empty, Karissa is missing in front of me. | ZZ's relief at getting back in for the start is short lived, blowing up down the straight. |
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| The two remaining Ferraris get together, Jack heads for the grass. | Richard watches Tim go off & follows |
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| All this helps my cause in charging through the field - don't cross there Tim! | Up front John hassles Harjan |
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| Further back Jack, Richard & Joe get together | A few laps on & John is still pushing Harjan |
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| Tim in full flight | I'm pushing hard to catch John |
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| And I gradually reel him in | Sportingly John lets me by - perhaps he still had memories of a green car behind him! |
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| Harjan had a few narrow scrapes - here he narrowly misses a spinning Richard | Joe takes the opportunity to squeeze past the recovering Richard |
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| Leaving me to face lapping them together... | Until Richard comes to grief at the same corner as last lap |
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| John's used this to close right up | Joe moves over for me & John to pass cleanly |
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| John gets a tow - pretty manacing sight | Bill's running fourth |
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| John keeps the pressure up | Jack gets off the track for the leader to pass! |
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| You can't park there mate - Jack all but comes to a halt on the racing line trying to let me squeeze by on the inside. I'm not prepared to risk it so tuck in behind him, not realising he was at a virtual standstill. | The lightest of touches - but in GPL enough to flip Jack. John deforms his suspension running into the stationary traffic jam & is forced to shift-r, losing him a lot of time on cold tyres. |
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| Tim also gets out of the leader's way | Bill decides Harjan's progress has been far too easy - Harjan dives for the inside at turn 1. |
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| But Bill turn 1 belongs to Bill - & slams the door firmly shut! | This close attention will end in tears & half a lap later - does. |
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| Harjan manages to keep it going without spinning & rejoins the track | Bill is not so fortunate - you CAN shift-r there Bill |
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| Last minute avoiding action for me as Tim spins in front of me | Harjan wins his debut race. Second for me, John third & Tim in fourth. |
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