Won a C race today (B|S) in the Aston V12! I had little business winning this one, but a win is a win. Quai time had me in P3. P1 & P2 - both Subarus - were fighting most of the first lap until just after T4 one of them spun the other. Now I am in P2, the Subaru who did the spinning got a 4 second penalty so a few turns later I am leading.
Guy who is now in P2 - also a Subaru - is playing the long game and as we go down the straights he gives me a bump rather than fighting, trying to get away from the pack. A couple laps later, I go through T3 a little slow and he is along side by the time we're braking for T4. We go thru T4 side-by-side with him on the inside and he takes the lead.
It's all I can do to keep him in my sights, and from lap 3.5-12.9 the delta was anywhere from .50-1.50 seconds. That Subaru is so fast on the straights that even when I was in his draft, he would still pull away some. Crossing the start/finish line beginning the last lap we both go through T1 and I don't think anything of it. As we get to T3 I see he has a .500 second penalty.
Now I am just trying to keep close and hope that .500 penalty will inherit me the lead. Going to the penalty line, the gap was like 1.2 seconds. He respectfully pulled off the racing line, slowed then go! Unfortunately for me, it didn't give me the lead... but now he was on the inside line and I am on the racing line at race pace. I think the penalty and being on the inside messed up his rhythm as he braked into T9 a little late and ran wide; I was able to take T9 like normal and was just barely able to squeeze past. We both take T10 pretty good and off to the checkered flag.
Felt a little bad for him honestly. He raced very respectfully, passed me clean, and I couldn't catch/challenge him again for the lead for the rest of the race (that being said, he couldn't drop me either). It was a .500 second penalty on the last lap and a very small mistake on the second to last turn that cost him the win. But, that's how it goes sometimes and I was there, as I had been the whole race, to capitalize... in the non-meta car.
MatDTX (I think) from Chile, if you're out there... good drive!
T9, last lap.
Obligatory finish pic:
I've now gotten a win at this week's C race in the Jag, GTR, Subaru, Evo, and Vanquish. Got a P2 in the Mustang, a P4 in the McLaren, P5 in the Viper, and a DNF in the Porsche. Might try the McLaren again as it's a nice drive. Looking forward to the next set of races at this point; hopefully on a track I agree with.