Yeah it was a pretty crazy race in D1, it was pretty much qualifying order for the first 5 laps or so with every one being careful then I had a big off in T1 and took out Tony. Then Aderrrm, Minion, and Nige took off but Tony made a really hard push and ended up catching back up with the main pack pretty quickly. I was stuck in last place trying to catch up to TnJ for a while until we both pitted at the same time and I was able to whip around him, then we encountered Green and we made a mini-draft train as we saw timeattack and Paginas not too far off in the distance. Then around lap 16 I noticed a couple names drop back way fast, Welsh_Bain and outlaw4rc. Don't know what happened but they were suddenly back with us with the couple leaders about 25 seconds ahead or so.
So it was me in 8th of 10, I started to leave behind Green and TnJ and had that awkward position of being right between two draft packs. After a few laps of the pack of four ahead of me duking it out gypsy style I was finally able to catch the tail end up outlaw's draft and catch up with two laps to go. Didn't want to challenge too much so I would just stick as close as I was comfortable to the fourth car (me being the fifth car in the bunch) and not try to really pass unless it was a main straight. Crazy thing was that even when I had a good chance to quickly pass with drafting speed, so did they. So you can imagine three cars all pulling out from behind two cars used as draft tows in an attempt to get ahead to set up a brake-zone pass at the same time, cluster **** is a word that comes to mind.
But it spread out a little more after that and I was able to get past timeattack on the last lap coming out of Ascari, Nige got a slow exit and I was able to get past him going into parabolica with outlaw and Paginas being a few seconds ahead battling for 5th on their own. Nige had a good run on me coming out of the last turn but I was just able to hold it and finished like .02 seconds ahead of him for a close finish and a securing of 7th and 8th for our team.