Race report :
Congrats rhy
that win probably means you have the championship
Pretty frustrating race for me, i span on both of my qualifying laps so i was down in 7th. I managed to climb up to 3rd but had lost a fair chunk of time to the leaders.
On the first stint i was slowly reeling them in, a few tenths a lap, plus my tyres lasted longer than i thought 👍 so when i pitted on lap 15 i was only a few seconds behind rhy, and then got him in the pits.
Second stint i lost the lead to rhy due to a dodgy overtake, my car was pushed wide as rhy came from about 20m back and his car launched up the inside, so i presume it must have been lag. I then got caught in traffic so lost a little more time, but maintained the gap to rhy ahead. I always seemed to get bad luck with traffic, the guys ahead always caught them on the straight, so they could duck in their slip stream and gain from it. But i always caught them on the corners, but thats just the way it goes.
I pitted on lap 29 or 30, cant remember which, and this is where i lost the race. It confused me, on my inlap i was matching rhys pace, and also on my outlap. But after rhy pitted i was 15 seconds behind, so i somehow lost 15 seconds in a few laps and i didnt spin once, plus i was putting in fairly good lap times. I really cant work it out.
So on my 3rd stint i knew i would have a hard time trying to catch rhy, i took 2 or 3 seconds out of him but it was no way near enough. I pitted on lap 41 for mediums.
Came back out about 15 seconds behind, and knew i wasnt gonna catch up, i wasnt really pushing too hard and i was keeping pace though. It seemed as though rhy was pushing quite hard, which puzzled me as he had a decent gap back to me.
So i was cruising for the last 10 laps with one hand, sipping a cup of tea
i spun a few times so i was 30 seconds behind, if i had not been fooling around the gap would have been about 15-20 seconds but hey ho.