Was quite looking forward to this race after spending most of the last month being off pace in iRacing, and with the gt2ws competition actually looking pretty strong considering the state of LFS. Struggled to motivate myself to practice at the start of the week, but when I realised it was Tomek's birthday on the day of qual that was a good motivation to start to practice and it started to click from there. Was a tenth off pb in q3, which was about what I expected to be good enough for pole but Matti put in a near perfect lap so I had to be happy with 2nd. Knew I'd have better race pace compared to q anyway.
Our tactic was to put me in the car for the first and last stints to try and build a gap, and then catch whatever Dom couldn't keep up with the guys around us. Unfortunately Dom was afk when the SC came which meant I had to do the 2nd stint too, which cancelled out a 14s lead and left a lot of work to do. 2nd restart didn't go quite to plan, with Krasi getting a run on me and I decided it was better to let him go then risk a crash. Managed to get a good run on him a couple of laps later into t1, I thought I had plenty of overrun on him so went for it and made it stick with only minor contact. I knew now I needed to put as much of a gap as I could so I tried to be as consistent as possible whilst still doing good times. Was looking more at CoRe being the threat but once they pitted early I knew with Matti in for a 2nd stint and already in the groove they would be the threat. Sure enough with Dom struggling with nerves/wheel issues Matti managed to get him before the last SC came out and left us vulnerable to the rest of the pack behind.
Grats Western Wolves, spdo and CoRe for the podium.
E: lolessay