A return to racing for the Porsche series with many changes, except one: this group of drivers. Though we had to overcome some growing pains and make procedural adjustments to work our series into GT7, our opening night on the title delivered the same edge of the seat racing that we knew before.
Qualifying was terrible for me, finding no pace at all. However, once Race 1 started and I had someone to chase, my pace improved. I had a few short battles early, and then settled into 7th place to drive to the finish line. Those drivers at the front, feel free to share from your pov, any battles that you had.
Race 2....oh, Race 2. Race 2 was one for the books for me. I started 6th on the rolling start. I was handed a few spots due to other driver mistakes, finding my way into 3rd place early with eyes steadily on
@JDMKING13 in 2nd place. After the first few laps, I was within striking distance. JDM went in a little hot for Malmedy allowing me to close onto his bumper with a run to the next corner. I managed to make a move to the inside when the door was open with JDM holding his line. We proceeded side by side thru Speakers corner with him to my left, and still holding his line while affording me space on mine. Going into the double apex left hander, JDM had a nose until I took a late lunge on the outside...hi risk, to the point I felt my rear being pressed outward from JDM's right front corner. JDM though, checked up, allowing my car to settle mid corner and finish the overtake which allowed
@Yugofan to sneak through before he closed the door to hold
@fruitloop31 at bay. While this was a loss of positions for him, JDM's racecraft was a perfect example of good, hard, and clean racing. Great driving sir.
Now, this is where the main battle ramped up. While attacking JDM, Yugo was steady mounting his own attack. From lap 4 to lap 17 Yugo and fruitloop applied steady and constant pressure, each having turns to attack. Yugo had the best shot with a lunge down the inside at Turn 1 that took him wide allowing me to pull an over-under to get a nose back on him before the entrance to El Rouge. From there, the pressure just continued. I was literally counting down the laps wondering how long I was going to be able to hold the defense.....until the end of lap 17. With Yugo dancing back and forth in my mirror on approach to the hi speed kink, I distracted and looked into my mirror. This was just enough for me to miss my mark, taking me onto the track runnoff, and before I could gather the car up to return to the track, I found a berm where it changed to grass, launching the car into a spin and across the track.
@Phlano099 was the closest call in this incident, but the adjustment he and
@Rob Brown had to make to avoid collision, allowed fruitloop a 1 lap attack to find the podium. At mid lap, he claimed Rob, and toward the end of the lap he closed down on Phlano, catching him in the final chicane, and drag racing him to win 3rd place for race 2 by a nose at the finish line. Epic race all around.
@Valex had a little shoulder rubbing early in the race, but was untouchable once he found seperation from the pack. Nice work sir on your first series race win.
I'm still working on getting the race Broadcasts together, but please feel free to share any of your battles and perspectives here in the thread if you'd like.
Great racing to all drivers for Event #8.