Good fun as usual gents! Especially the first half. For some reason Alfas suit me, as despite my usual lack of practice pretty soon I could do very decent laptimes. And while the car's rear felt a bit lively, I think I still managed 2nd place in Q1.
R1 start was not good as the engine bogged down on releasing the clutch, and a few cars (Healeys mostly) flew past. Then I was chased by Hans for a while and at the same time I tried to hang on to the rear of Jacks Healey. And no more than that, I put as much pressure on him as I cleanly could
but did not get a single shot at overtaking him, until eventually he made a mistake in the last corner and went offtrack..
By then Silvino had taken off well out of sight already, I did have a visit from Steven later on, but managed to finish in 2nd.
But then, The Healey....Quite a different car, this one. More like that
Titanic Ferrari from a while ago.. nose-heavy, refusing to turn-in, sluggish
. But it also packed some great straight-line speed and nice grunt out of corners.
The change was too big for me tho as by Practice 2 end, I think I was slowest of all. Jack advised to add more fuel for stability but I decided to try the opposite for Q2. Which worked well, I managed a spin-free Q2 lap and set the best time of all 4 timed laps so far. As the other half of the field was not going to set a time, that suddenly placed me on pole!! Oh, no
!! Not in this piece of... err. metal?
R2 start was OK, the car was quick off the line, managed to hold on to 1st place for quite a while, as behind me the non-qualifiers apparently struggled to make their way forward. So it wasn't until about lap 9 that Allan and Silvino came to join me, We had some fun battling, but then a minor slide of mine allowed both of them to overtake and create a small gap which as expected I was unable to close.
Good racing fun, despite it not being my kind of car!
Grats Silvino for the double win I believe, and for showing some impressive speed in both cars. Thanks Steven for the event, and Thx all for racing!