EU Race.
Firstly congrats Dion awesome race pace and also to Pekka and Mike on the podium 👍
Qualified in 3rd and got a decent start, but tapped the wall at the end of sector 2 and Hydro passed. Got a little distracted by Marc asking where Pekka was(they couldn't see each other) and drifted a little wide in the left hand bend approaching the final corner then saw Wes in the wall just to my right.
I don't think we touched but felt I may have been the cause
and was going to find safe place to wait, but I understeered into the wall in the last corner. Luckily I was out of everyone's way and was soon last, 25 seconds behind the lead
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Found a nice rhythm chasing wes and by lap 10 we had caught Aspec and Al fighting for 6th and 7th. Going into the tight right Aspec had the inside line with Al on the outside with me on his bumper and Wes a few lengths back on the inside line as well. Al and I got around in 6th & 7th and Wes tried a sharper exit but couldn't get past as well.
I got next to Al in the first right of T3 and finished the pass at the braking point for the last corner giving me 6th and would be the last racing pass of the race for me.
I pushed hard to get away and did so after a number of laps with Al stubbornly hanging on, even with my best lap of the race the gap only increased by 0.071sec 👍
At halfway I was only 11 seconds behind Speedy in 3rd, soon after Marc started having a few issues with his car and later retired with mechanical troubles
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Had a few tire issues late in the race and after closing to 2 seconds behind Christophe on lap 27 I fell back to finish 9 seconds down in 5th and 7 ahead of Wes who was up to 13.5 seconds behind(lap 27).
Though a little disappointed at my first lap, I had a great race from lap 2 onwards
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NA race
I really can't do this race justice with my writing skills so I'll keep it simple
Laps 1-22: EDK and I had an amazing race. I got a PB early in the race a 26.3 and Kev caught me by a tenth
. The biggest lead I saw was 0.8 and the average would be close to 0.15 seconds. 17 (car length or more) lead changes and 4 or 5 times side by side with no pass. All with no car to car contact and only a little wall to car contact(it moved I swear
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At the end of lap 21 Kev had a lead of 0.113 and I was looking for the inside line for the Colosseum to try and make it 18 passes and Kev got DC 5 seconds into the lap
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The whole time Joe was not far behind only 3-5 seconds away and ready to pounce on a mistake
Laps 23-35: A little inconsistent at times but extended the lead out to almost 6 seconds(lap 27) before Joe started reeling me back in to finish only 3.2 seconds behind.
If Kev had not DC I would have given us each a 45% chance for the win and Joe a 10% chance to steal it away
. A bittersweet victory but very satisfied having had that race with Kev 👍
so I might have missed it... Woke up at 5am expecting to have an hour until qualify, leaving me time to wash my face and all that jaz, only to find qualify expected to start now!! Rushed to join in time and get a few laps under my belt to get the concentration up and luckily for me things were not quite going to plan and qualify as delayed 30mins. This allowed me precious time to get into the groove 
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