Thought I'd do a report of the race if you don't mind a picture-heavy post...
So, race 2. We were joined by
@HarryWS or TheVulfmon in the Integra,
@geeTeye in the GTi (go figure), StormPacer in the plain BRZ,
@TetsuKobura in the other BRZ,
@AudiMan2011 in the E30,
@rallymorten in the Focus and at the back, myself or Volvo240-of-Doom (yep that is my PSN name) in the other Integra.
Thankfully, I didn't start in reverse, and the usual first-corner-jumble was fairly tidy.
By the end of sector 2, a four-way-battle for first had emerged between Tetso, me, morten and Audiman.
Heading onto the main straight at the end of lap one, the tone had been set.
After the evil sector 2 S-bends took Tetso out of the immediate running, we were down to three.
For the next few laps, it was very close between me, morten and Audiman, with me barely keeping pole while the other two duked it out for second place. By lap six, with a clean track and nobody vying for position with me, I was able to gain a decent lead, leaving a much more interesting battle a few seconds behind between Audiman and morten, with a familiar BRZ lurking not too far behind...
For the next two laps, Audiman held the lead until morten got a particularly good exit, leading into lap eight as Tetso closed in, meanwhile I remained a few seconds ahead, not gaining or losing.
Further back, StormPacer and geeTeye were fairly close, but never had much of a tussle for position.
For the next several laps, not a lot happened - Audiman continued to chase me down, scoring the best lap of the race in the process, and morten continued to chase him, until lap 12, where after a particularly good second sector, Tetso appeared out of nowhere to take third place as he and morten headed into sector 3. The battle was now on for second place.
For the next two laps, the three traded positions until lap 14, where hitting the outside wall on the last corner left morten with a battle scar and a lot of time to make up.
By lap 16, he had done just that, partly thanks to another evil sector 2 S-bend drift, this time affecting Audiman.
At this point, Tetso began to break out a bit of a lead over the other two.
By now, it was obvious that lap eighteen would be the final lap. Having overshot turn one, Audiman was in fourth with time to make up.
Into the sector 2 S-bends, it was anyone's race.
Thus far, the race had been very lonely for the two Hondas on the field, until now. One had been lapped by the other. I must say though, Harry's Integra looks pretty damn amazing.
Fourteen seconds later, on the same straight, it was neck-and-neck...
Audiman sent it into the next corner, barely holding the line, as well as second position, while morten with the outside line was left at a disadvantage. At the end of the race, Audiman took second, Tetso, having made a heroic comeback after his second lap off, took third, and morten took fourth - all within half a second of each other.