What a fun race.
Nige and I almost went off at T1 trying to outbrake each other, but I got off a little better. Almost pulled away, but he drew me back in. We did it again, but I paid a heavy price, ending up nicking the wall, losing lots of positions. Honestly, I'm still not sure whether I used the wrong brake marker or if the car wriggled on me, increasing my brake distance. Either way, it didn't matter because I pitted at around Lap 7-8 for rain tires, when my times was approaching my PB in the rain. It worked perfectly, as I caught right back up with Nige after he pitted a lap or two later. From then on, it was lap after lap of hard battling. We were swapping positions like no tomorrow, but we did it cleanly. At one point, I thought he beached it at Parabolica, but it was the game glitching.
Because the rain wasn't falling that hard, my tires were wearing more than expected, and I was having greater difficultly planting the power down, even in 2nd gear. Finally, on Lap 24, that ended my chances of winning when the car refused to go exiting Lesmos 2, and Nige got away from me.
Even without my mistake, the slow rain probably would have done me in. My setup worked best when it was pouring, but not in conditions like today. Oh well.
At this rate, I won't win the division, but RDS Motorsports is sitting pretty.