Not a great race for me. During practice I actually got into the mid 40s and was fairly pleased, but it all started going wrong during qualy. I never got in a real lap, I spent the entire time dodging lagging cars, but I'm sure the same was true for most so I didn't worry about it too much.

I got an ok start, but once I got past a couple cars there was a huge gap to the leaders that seemed just way too open. As I got closer several cars just appeared in front of me. One spun, and I ran into it, but didn't realize how much I had damaged the front from the contact. I got a tap from behind a little later in the lap, but I think it was partly my fault. The car in front went into the corner a lot slower than I was expecting so I slowed pretty abruptly just to be cautious on the first lap.

Had some interesting racing for a while after that. It was close, but no one seemed to be making a clean pass no matter the differential in pace. I have to apologize to Ryan though. I rammed him right off the track. I wasn't trying to pass or anything, I just had a little system hiccup, I'm not sure why and was still accelerating well past my braking point. I took a drive thru, but that doesn't do much for him if his car was damaged badly.

Most of the first stint was pretty close racing so I hadn't realized that my lack of pace was largely coming from quite a bit of dmg on the nose. I had already decided ahead of time that I wasn't going to repair, so I automatically cancelled it, and only then saw the physical extent of it during the stop when the camera shifted.

The rest of the race was pretty quiet, but I never got anywhere near the pace I was running during practice with race fuel and tires.