Race 1: Nice sprint race to the end. Good chance to do some hot-lapping so managed to get down in the 33.3's, or was that 23.3's?
Race 2: Had a ripper start from 10th, split the pack into T1, rubbed shoulders with Joe and someone else, and came out 2nd behind Wally. Had fun chasing Wally around but couldn't make anything stick, apart from my underpants. Was on his tail when on around lap 5 or 6 one of us warped and we went flying. That was disappointing as it would have been a really great battle otherwise.
Anyways, went straight into the pits and put some juice in and changed tyres in preparation for a 14 lap stint (which would have been good if I went in on lap 7, not lap 6!). On about lap 11 I came up to Jeremy who took some pace off going through the flat-out left hander, so I was gaining quick in the corner and decided to run onto the grass to avoid any bumping and maybe pull off an overtake. Jeremy was courteous and moved to the centre of the track to let me on, but when I took him up on the offer I think we both went for the same bit of track, we bumped and I just couldn't quite hold it into the long left hairpin so went off into the barrier. After that my car was way too damaged to mount any sort of come-back and the tyres were gone, which was lucky as I ran out of fuel with half a lap to go!
It was a good experiment with the tyres though and my "grip handicap" theory. Toward the end of the race my tyres were shot, and presumably whoever was behind me pitted a lot later with fresher tyres and we had a really good battle with me being on the old tyres and him being on the grippier tyres. Made for a great battle (albeit I had damage), and I think Matthew in front was in the same boat.