This was going to be a challenge. A lot of times I've come to Spa and had things go badly at some point, usually with me going off the track. So here we were again, and qualifying as expected was flat-out. Tristain in the Lola took pole with a 3.24.8, and I thought I could get close, but in the end I could not match that time. At the end of qualifying I was concentrating on my race setup, and that was when Greg took 2nd place from me. Typical, he's always been so fast around here.
So to the start. I didn't get the best start, and Axel actually had to lift off past Eau Rouge to not run into the back of me. Tristain and Greg were well away, but by the end of the lap I had caught up again, and as we braked into La Source unfortunately there was a slight glitch, and I ran into the back of Greg's car. He spun wide. I waited for about a second, but there were cars coming around the hairpin, and Tristain was getting away. I just couldn't wait. Greg rejoined about fifth. I chased after Tris, and for the next seven laps or so I pushed as hard as I could. Despite Tris trying to mess up the draft I steadily closed in. Started putting him under pressure, but it was so tough. The closer the are the more odd the car seems to react, and also it's tougher to see the lines and turn in points, and this is such a narrow track at speed. I did make a mistake into the right hander before Blanchimont, ran onto the grass but managed to keep control and swept back onto the track. Then a lap later it all changed. As we charged toward the fearsome Masta kink, Tris pushed too hard into the first left hander. He'd done that a couple times, and this time it was a bit too much, he hit the bump in the middle of the corner and that pushed him wider than before. he clipped the grass, which dragged him off and he hit the house on the left. I flinched as I went under him while he flew to the right, and then I was through. Tris restarted fourth and would end up third, behind Greg who was so fast today, set fastest lap and probably would have won if not for my error.
Anyway, two wins on the go puts me in the championship lead, at the halfway point.
| Open - Drivers Championship (scoring) | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | Drivers | PP | Total | Vehicle |  |  | | |  | | |  | |  |
| 1 | Mark Jones (FT) | 180.0 | *Mixture* | 43.0 | 37.0 | 50.0 | 50.0 | |||||||
| 2 | MagicArsouille (FT) | 174.0 | *Mixture* | 50.0 | 50.0 | 37.0 | 37.0 | |||||||
| 3 | Cookie (FT) | 135.0 | *Mixture* | 32.0 | 32.0 | 43.0 | 28.0 | |||||||
| 4 | Alain Maurice (FT) | 130.0 | *Mixture* | 37.0 | 50.0 | 43.0 | ||||||||
| 5 | fpolicardi (FT) | 115.0 | Ferrari 330/P4 | 17.0 | 43.0 | 23.0 | 32.0 | |||||||
| 6 | philippe GIRARD (FT) | 105.0 | *Mixture* | 21.0 | 25.0 | 23.0 | 21.0 | 15.0 | ||||||
| 7 | Rainier (FT) | 101.0 | *Mixture* | 13.0 | 19.0 | 25.0 | 25.0 | 19.0 | ||||||
| 8 | Phil Thornton (R1) | 100.0 | *Mixture* | 15.0 | 28.0 | 32.0 | 25.0 | |||||||
| 9 | Doni Yourth (FT) | 89.0 | *Mixture* | 19.0 | 21.0 | 17.0 | 32.0 | |||||||
| 10 | Enrique Farina (FT) | 88.0 | *Mixture* | 28.0 | 23.0 | 37.0 | ||||||||
| 11 | Pete Bennett (FT) | 81.0 | *Mixture* | 9.0 | 21.0 | 28.0 | 23.0 | |||||||
| 12 | francesco (FT) | 49.0 | *Mixture* | 11.0 | 17.0 | 21.0 | ||||||||
| 13 | GregT (R1) | 43.0 | Ferrari 330/P4 | 43.0 | ||||||||||
| 14 | PaulV (FT) | 36.0 | Ferrari 330/P4 | 19.0 | 17.0 | |||||||||
| 15 | maddog (R1) | 28.0 | Lola T70 MkIII | 28.0 | ||||||||||
| 16 | EvilClive (FT) | 25.0 | Ferrari 330/P4 | 25.0 | ||||||||||
| 17 | Markus Friedrich (R1) | 23.0 | Lola T70 MkIII | 23.0 | ||||||||||
| Raoni Frizzo (R1) | ||||||||||||||
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