First lesson learned with these cars - the default setup is not very friendly on tires. All the way round the track I was fighting the car, and even with mediums, I was on ice at the end of the race.

It was far from a boring race for the #45 Panoz Esperante GTR-1 though. On the start I was a bit lackadaisical and let a couple of drivers by, hoping to reclaim those spots shortly. However, the drivers were in sprint race mode and not in any mood to move over. Net result, I was held up behind cars that I could have easily put distance on, and this caused me to be harder on my rear tires than I would have liked. Halfway through the race I had a couple of unfortunate self-spins that lost me valuable time, but I was able to move up to second on my no-stop strategy.

That didn't last long, however, as a class car overtook me the next lap. On the very same lap, he was a bit overeager to move by a GT2 car at Bridge, made contact, and spun. I had nowhere to go to, was collected, and dropped all the way back to fifth after spinning past Priory.

At the end, I was happy to finish fourth and was happy to get off the tires I was on - they must have looked a fair bit the worse for wear!