Started second to last because I missed qualifying... as I expected.
Made a pretty awesome start. Made up eight positions in the first lap.
Was able to push forward the next couple laps and made up another seven positions by lap 11. At this point I'm in third place in GT2.
Cruised a bit for the next hour or so in the dark. Pit a lap before Daron who is in the lead and four laps before Greg in second who I was catching relatively quickly and only 7 seconds behind when I stopped.
Pit stop when smoothly. Fresh medium tires and a full tank of gas. Turned up the boost, as I knew now was when I could put a dent in Greg and Daron's lead. I see Daron pits, he comes out with the same gap of forty seconds. Then I see Greg pit. Then as I am coming to the finish line. I see the pit out. He came out of the pits side by side with me. I beat him to the hairpin and had the legs coming out. With a lapped GT2 car in front of us and three protos right behind. That was CRAZY. Something happened and Greg lost 20 seconds or so.
I carried on. A few scares. The biggest of which was coming into turn one. I had just been passed by a proto and he broke relatively early. So another proto behind him has no where to go but into the back of him. And I am JUST to the outside of them. I had to get on the gas to avoid them... this is going into turn one!
So I notice with around 27 minutes to go, I have about 30 minutes of fuel left.
I back off a little to conserve the fuel. And Greg starts gaining on me again.
Then with 19 minutes to go, I have 20 minutes of fuel. And now Greg is 5 seconds behind me.
An absolutely amazing battle ensued with about 10 minutes to go (I now had 9 minutes of fuel left).
Back and forth and back and forth. And then a pass around the outside going to the bus stop (I don't know what I was thinking, when I realized what I was doing, I almost s**t myself). And then I ran out of fuel.
I'm not upset though. That was ridiculously fun.
Video(s) later tonight or tomorrow.
at the random song selection... quite surreal.
