My poor quali form continues. This time I was over a second off the pace that I was doing in practice pre-race. I don't know what's up with that really. Maybe it's because I never get to drive the Alpha apart from the league races and the cockpit views have some variations. I don't know. Need to sort it out. Obviously it wasn't an easy session for anyone but this problem has been on-going.
Started in P10, happy to see some rain again. Made a few positions at the start and slotted in behind clarky_110. He overtook BigC_015 quickly and pulled away a big gap in a couple of corners. I felt like I had much more pace in hand and I thought Connor must have had some damage. I got a good run out of T11 and sent it up the inside on T12 and made it stick. I was surprised to see him fight back, but it turns out he didn't have damage after all. Maybe cold tires? I don't know.
After that I was just driving in queue behind Josh. Had some more pace in hand, as I think he did too, but overtaking was out of the question. At around half-way through the race I made a small mistake under braking and Shellay got by. Instead of trying to secure a decent point finish I was only thinking about how to progress higher up the field. Seeing that most drivers opted to wait for the track to dry out, I decided to roll the dice and do the opposite, even though Jeff said the rain was ending in 10 minutes - I don't have that much faith in his predictions. After the stop I hammered in the fastest lap, but just one or two laps later it started to dry up, so that was that.
On dry tires I had a tough time getting into rhythm. Simply put I was just too slow and cautious. When Connor caught me on the last lap(s), my defense was terrible. Misjudged the braking point twice and almost took him out both times. Worst wheel-to-wheel action from me all season, but I'll put it down to not racing a single race since the Silverstone event. Will do better next time.