What a race guys
it got all ingredients for a exciting race......superbe overtaking, big crashes and close racing!
Quali was terrible for me: i didn't had the feeling at all....did a 30.5 which was almost a 1 sec slower then Chris and so i ended up on the last row.
In warmup i changed my setup a bit and the feeling started to return.
The race started of well for me: in the first 20/25 laps we had a lot of cautions but i managed to stay out of trouble and already made up some positions. But then i made a mistake....on the restart the car was suddenly feeling loose (for the first time that race). i needed to lift the throttle to recover, but that did not succeed so i ended up spinning around. Some laps later Jai (i guess) had the same on the restart and James and me couldn't avoid, so in the end i turned James on his roof.....oops sorry bud, but i had nowhere to go. With 8 laps to go i was even on P5 (with some luck and obviously had pitted on the right moment). Everyone was already doing some 20 odd laps on the same tires, but everybody stayed out so that promised to be a fight till the end. with 3 laps to go we had another caution (we had a lot yesterday, but also some great green runs). The last laps were just mental....my start wasnt that good and with 6 cars fighting for the podium it was so close.....and in the last lap the unavoidable happend: a big bang.... James was spinning around and i succeed to stay out of that trouble (about 4 cars were "involved" in that accident) When i passed the trouble, i was suddenly driving on P2 and i managed to bring it home :smile:
Ofcourse had some luck, with my pace and when everything would have gone normal i would have ended up around P6 to P8, but this time luck (already had all the bad luck on Daytona lol) was on my side :biggrin:
Congrats to everybody, this race just had everything! Also congrats to Chris for winning 2 in a row in his driving cornflakes box :smile:
See you in NJ (for Pocono i'll be absent due to holidays) !!!!