Pretty awesome race!
It all started of really well, my first stint was ok but Ilbens was a little bit too fast and the combination of heavy traffic not going my way meant he pulled a bigger gap than I wanted. I was fairly shocked to see not many people went for a full 2hr stint but it worked out for us really well.
So after my stint I left and when I got home (after some beers
) I noticed we was like 2 laps down, 'wtf has gone on here' so I join irc and Troy tells me about this timeout thing and wouldn't let them join back.
I went to sleep anyway
basically when I joined my goal was to get close to CoRe since I thought ineX were perhaps too fair ahead. It went really well and the pace was good and we got onto same lap as CoRe.
It was basically just me and Troy from this point but it worked great and we was just closing down the teams ahead. Isaac then timed out, it's never good to gain/lose a position like this but it gave us something to aim for and some hope
Troys last stint was fantastic, closed down CoRe by so much per lap was very exciting for me to watch and also he was building the gap to Isaac who had just started a new stint so we knew we would need a big gap. At the start of the stint we was 1min8sec behind CoRe and by the end (with help of their DT) it was just 20sec or something crazy like that!
Luckily for me the final stint was 10mins shorter due to troys tyre management hax so I could just push from start to end. My first thought was 'ilbens is too far ahead' but then I noticed that I was catching quickly, along with that we knew he would struggle to make the tyres last so would have to compromise some speed. At this point we thought we would be close to Isaac but infact he came out quite far ahead of us. The little battle with Ilbens was good, but then he clipped inside wall in sc3 and I was able to just drive past.
I was catching Isaac fast too due to his thicker tyres and when
I got closer I prepared for the usual battle which would most likely end in a crash
instead he just let me past...
Will be interesting to see the final results, but it was very fun whatever the outcome, big thanks to Concept for letting me drive with them!