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2308 TSMP Majors EP Race 2

A good race. Unlike the prior day, the EP leaders agreed to start in qually positions because, based on the prior day's lap times, we had cleared the T4 and STL field enough to not mix it up with them. I started P2 and on the green took the overall lead. My main competition, Anthony Parker in a beautiful GT6+, was coming. But I knew we had a long race and I could hang and annoy him (hoping for a mistake) so I did not challenge him into T1 and he took the point. As expected, I annoyed him from behind waiting for my opportunity. That came at the end of Lap 6 as we came onto the front straight and lapped traffic. I was watching it develop for a few corners and predicted where we'd meet: Turn 11/11A. The timing was just terrible for the GT6 as that corner exit has you wondering where to go...left or right? Trust me, it's not a clear decision - I'm not even sure which way I would have gone - but Anthony chose left - the preferred line out of the corner - and got squeezed between the Neon and the track edge. I was there to take advantage of it and squirted by. I spent the next five laps tossing in some reasonably-consistent laps, watching intently for Anthony to make a charge, but he seemed to struggle more with traffic than I did; luck of the draw, I guess. Then I lost sight of him and relaxed a tad...until I got to Turn 1 and saw a debris flag. Looking around the corner I didn't see any parts on the track and then as I approached T3 I saw it: a broad line of oil from corner entry, across to the apex, and then the corner exit. I crossed the inbound line of oil at as acute an angle I could - the front wheels slightly locked as I crossed it - and an acute angle back across and then kept going. Then as I came around the Clubhouse Turn 4 I saw Anthony sitting there in the Joker crossover, with a line of oil going to his beautiful car...DAMMIT! Anthony has worked hard on that car so he did not deserve that. I was honestly really disappointed that happened. While Anthony did a great job of getting the car off track (he made an immediate right out of T3) it was apparent the oil was going to cause a Full Course Caution, and rounding Turn 6 I saw it. I started backing up the field so we were nice and slowed down when the pace car came out. The pace car picked us up and track teams went out to clean it up, and Control decided to Black Flag All for a short while to keep us out of the way (the track trucks were certainly not doing an awesome job of keeping out of our way) and we soon got restarted. At this point my next competitor (a Datsun Z-car) was not in sight so I knew I just had to bring it home. Which was exactly what I was trying to do (he says, foreshadowingly). But as the final laps ticked down I saw a yellow F Production car stalking me, presumably for the overall win. I was tossing down solid laps and doing mental calcs on when he'd arrive, and it was possible he'd get there in time, but I wasn't going to burn down the car to keep the overall; if he got it, he got it, I had my class win pretty much sewn up. And that plan almost worked. Taking the white flag on Lap 24 I saw that I had enough of a buffer that just throwing down a solid lap he couldn't catch me...except...now I noticed we were catching the lead battle for GT Light. The top two cars, running nose-to-tail. Now, I'm the kinda person that sees no value in taking away someone else's race. If I can let them go without compromising my race, I will (I have). On top of that, I put little marginal value in an uncontested overall win. But I could tell from the "body language" of the FP Miata that he wasn't going to be denied, and it was clear we were going to interfere with their race. I debated what to do about it; I even lifted and signalled him to try and get his attention to back off; I dunno, maybe he took that as a "go ahead and pass me" signal? So he shot for the hole that put him deep into the GTL battle. I should have just given up trying to communicate and let him go...I certainly wasn't going to wreck myself trying. And of course he got into the GTL battle. And of course we probably affected their race. But three corners later the FP guy's main competition - who I never even saw way back there - came shooting up past me before S/F. So I was a bit chastened with that knowledge (had I seen that other car coming I would have let them both by long before). I did mention to him after the race that we affected the GTL battle and he said he wasn't aware...but he had the other car coming. Maybe I shouldn't go out of my way to be so nice...lol Regardless, I think this was a fair win, and a great weekend all around with all goals accomplished: testing of the car's return, qualification for the Runoffs, and a couple spiffy stickers to go on the quarter glass of the Civic. Not a bad weekend for Gamera. Oh, wait, you haven't heard that story...? See ya at VIR.