Wow, what an event....so much to cover. Let's start with the notable battles:
Race 1
Most notable was the dogfight between
@Roman_GT23 and
@Harry Rowley that began brewing in the early laps, and fully engaged around lap 5. This battle lasted up to the final lap where
@aedenmaddok got in on the action, and executed a daring pass at the tight hairpin after an attempt around the outside of the previous corner. Only then did the 3 of them spread out for the run to the finish line. Roman, awesome defense, and Harry....huge respect for the patience, especially after so many attempts to get around. Great battle all around.
Another big battle, this time 3 cars between
@fullness ,
@Xradkins , and
@Rob Brown ran from the opening laps to around lap 10 before fullness and xrad seperated from Rob, carrying on their battle into the later stages of the Race. Great job on some good, hard, clean racing.
My race started a bit rocky. In the opening lap, an incident in front of me unfolded at the exit of the hairpin. I had an opening, and gunned for it, full throttle, resulting in a spin, and taking me to last place. From there, I just got back to setting laps, and as luck had it, other drivers had some offs or incidents that helped my progress. One of those was
@JDMKING13 , who didn't take long to get caught up and on my tail. After 2 laps of fending him off, JDM did get around to take the position. Next up was trying to defend against the polesitter,
@Rotary_Pilot with
@Yugofan trailing close behind. I had to pull out all the stops, placing the car in the widest way possible to keep them at bay. This all started around the 11th lap, until finally
@Rotary_Pilot saw his opportunity and went for it with yugo ducking in and stealing a position as well on lap 21. In trying to mount a counterattack on yugo, at least, I fell short at the finish line, finishing 11th.
Finally, the closing laps battle between
@Noob01_lmdead ,
@MrDonovan , and
@IceWarden . Raul led at the beginning of this battle, with Donovan and Ice hot on his tail. Watch the final lap, and watch the 3 wide exchange and overtake from Ice....then keep in mind him and Raul were invisible to one another. Somehow, catastrophe was avoided with them going thru the finish line Ice, Raul, Donovan for 2,3, & 4. Great battle and worth the watch of the replay broadcast.
Now onto Race 2:
Race 2 opened up for me with a battle on Rob and yugofan. I manged to get a clean pass on Rob early at the hairpin, and then went on the hunt for yugo. It wasn't long before Raul was on my tail, now forcing me to turn my focus on defending...which was unsuccessful. After getting around me, I followed Raul until he overtook yugo, where I was now hot on yugo's draft and afforded an opening on the inside at the tight hairpin. Coming out of the brakes just a little bit allowed for a small lunge that snuck me in just in time, albeit with a little side to side contact (sorry yugo 😉) around the corner.
Next big battle for me was with
@Fudman420 . Countless laps of nose to tail, Fudman did get around, just for me to come back swinging for the position...just for him to take it again, and back, and forth, until finally a gravel trap caught him on an overshoot into turn 3....after Ice Warden managed a very nice overtake on myself on lap 21. From there
@aedenmaddok with his pace, smelled blood in the water and was right there to start hunting me for that for that 5th place spot. With a few tense moments and a tough defense, I was able to close out the race holding onto 5th place.
I could go on further for the other battles in this race, but way too many to note....this was already probably too much 😉. Have a look at the replay broadcasts to get a better look at the action and to catch the many battles that this event and track awarded. And please, feel free to share your battles and perspectives if you'd like.
