Hi all. Boy I had a lot of fun with the race yesterday. For starters it was held on the circuit of Monza, one of my all time favorites. No matter with what sim or whatever car I'm driving there, it's always good. I just love that track. So mentally it was okay, even the slightly present headache couldn't spoil the fun for me. I had a clean start and due to some people's lack of patience (a couple of drivers ran each other off the road in the first few turns of the race) I could move up to the eighth position quite easily. Then I noticed I was behind the very same driver I was behind on Mosport and for some time I was able to follow him around that track. Monza however is a very different type of track but here too I could follow the guy reasonably well. On the straights I could close the gap a bit while in the turns he was a bit quicker. I was on his tail for quite a number of laps and we raced very sportively. True racing style, it almost seemed as of I could do this for real ;-) Unfortunately for me when he was warmed up his speed was a little to much for me. It was just irresponsible for me to try and follow him so I had to let go of him. He gained a bit every lap from then on, but this wasn't the biggest problem. The problem was behind me, and gaining too. Each time I passed the pit-board I saw a name that I couldn't place until it hit me a couple of laps later: it was our race director himself, trailing me and closing the gap. I realized that if we would continue with these speeds things could get quite 'ugly' a couple of laps before the end so I was trying to think up some way of going round just that little faster. Then all of a sudden the gap had gained about ten seconds between us so I had some rest again. He wasn't able to close it again before the end and I finished in a nice tenth position scoring another very important competition point for our team, the GPRT. I'd settle for races like this for the rest of the season, it was just that good.