What happened between me and Knelly...I mean talk about a race of inches.
I got loose when we reached turn 3, so the car dipped under the line, I tried to bring it back in so I was on the low line. Knelly was just on top of me. Niop came and gave him a push. And maybe because I got into him or he came down low onto me, maybe both.. I caught his back end. I mean just watching the replay, it was an absolute love tap and Knelly just lost it. And Tom who was in the back of our pack got caught into it unfortunately. I'm just lucky that my car didn't get in a terrible position when I was wrecked and was able to get back up and finish the race in a position I might have finished anyway even if there wasn't a wreck.
The second pack never caught me even after I wrecked. I was alone as my teammate MULE was with the other pack. Had there been no wreck, both of Ford team, both of SGR, Droptop all vs me. I was just thinking of what on Earth am I going to do for 1st. So 4th isn't that bad for me, I coulda had 6th..
In another note: PD updated replay viewing, so much easier to skip through the race and finding the precise moment you want, instead of just skipping an entire lap. I don't know why PD mentions the little things they do for convenience in their maintenance updates. =\
Think you hit the nail on the head Red, however sick I feel. After you were loose and came back up, we were door to door. I mean, not even a cig paper between us. BUT, we both held our lines like pro's right there.
Right then I had the win, I'm confident of it. But it was Niops push that squeezed my car down the camber into your side. Maybe you came up slightly but by then we were stuck together.
What happened after that is just last turn NASCAR racing. Nobody could do anything about it, and nobody did a thing wrong.
Doesn't mean I don't feel as sick as a dog though. It was all planned out. SGR / JRM were already on a 5 out of 6 winning streak, and then the Nationwide boys swept with a 1, 2, 3. Myself and Niop were in the prime position to sweep the SC as well, and make it 7 wins out of the last 8. Well, we did that but just without the sweep that should have been.
We went out looking to see what happens and conserve as much as possible. But we had our numbers down as well knowing where we needed to be changing it up. The very next lap was led by Niop, as planned, and again we were in the perfect position to finish off the perfect weekends strategy, if not for just pure hardcore racing becomming the winner.
Anyway, awesome win buddy. Great to see Champ
Joe, I feel for you as well tonight. Both Indycar and SC you came second by 4 hundreths of a second each race. Bitter sweet man.
Good tacticle racing guys. Can't wait to see what lap amount Drop puts in for this race next season 👍
Now to get ready for my sleepless night of what SHOULD have been