Time Stamps below! **Note: drivers placed 3rd and lower should have one more lap counted. The marshals ended the race too soon**
Race 4 out of 12 tonight. Eventful and quite and unexpected race for me.
Starting Grid:
P1 - Maison
P2 - Lugamego
P3 - Milfhunter1
P4 - Milfhuntah
P5 - Possibly The Stig
P6 - sk (me)
P7 - Muzcat
P8 - Dean
P9 - Rus
P10 - Goganskee
P11 - Maximum Verstappen
Race start was eventful. I had to make some decisive passes to get through the field and try and stay with Stig. He felt quite a bit quicker than me for the whole race.
Lugamego tried his hardest with an unpredictable kart to keep us back but we eventually got our moves done (this is one of those decisive/crucial passes). Now we just needed to try and create a gap to Goganskee and Rus who were both looking quick getting through the field.
Stig came in for a pit stop that I thought was going to out him behind traffic *fingers crossed* but just squeaked out in front of 3 karts.
Now I was just paying attention to the gap to Stig and Goganskee (they were about to battle it out a bit) and did my pit stops when I had the space for it.
I was shocked after doing my 3 pit stop to see that I was still ahead of Stig and in first. I knew he was going to catch me up before the end of the race and he did. I was on the defense for the last 20 mins or so and managed to hold him back.
This is definitely one of my weak points, defensive driving. Not really use to taking the tight lines and I ended up hitting barriers quite a bit. There was one moment I thing Stig should have tried keeping it in the out side of turn 8, he could have forced me to give space going into turn 9 and unsettled my line for the last corner and possibly turn 3.
Very fun race, still got lots to learn.
Time Stamps:
0:50 Race start
1:08 P6 to P5
1:26 P5 to P4
1:47 P4 to P3 and hoping Lugamego holds up Possibly The Stig
3:24 Gaining ground from them battling
7:33 Stig goes for P1 pass and me going for a dive pass a couple corners later
15:38 Navigating through some traffic
19:53 Stig goes for his first pitstop giving me P1
32:45 Dean and Rus coming out of the pits with me slotting in between them.
36:53 First yellow of the night
38:31 Pit stop #1
40:51 Pit stop #2 After this stop I noticed I still had about a pit stop advantage over Stig. He must have got help up in lap traffic. So I need to pit one last time before that gap is gone.
42:25 Pit stop #3 Now the race is on.
45:00 Stig is now in my rear cam, slowly gaining on me
46:47 Stig on my bumper now, time for defense!
56:46 2nd yellow no passing until green
1:00:39 last lap for the win!
1:01:42 Race Results
1:01:52 Lap Times
1:02:02 Championship Standings
