Hi there to you all ; don't post very often, but do know Mike & of course Iain.
So I help run the Alfa GTAm No. 58 in the HTC & although not the quickest car, it's sure one of the nicest looking & we went from 16th to 12th (so we thought) at the end, but then got shown in 17th before becoming not classified !!!!!!!!!!!!
What happened ??? Well, on the very last lap, we were just being lapped by Meaden, & we were actually a few tenths in front of the Capri at the line, but by the time both cars were over the line we were behind it, & when Dickie slowed down we had to sit behind him as for him the race had finished !! We were then ushered into the pitlane & hence didn't finish the race, as we never passed 'our' chequered flag !!! Hence classified as a non finisher !!
The Alkamel guys saw that immediately & informed race control, who said that they had no time to inform any track crew to waive us thru & complete our lap & so we remained unclassified.
We should in fact have been showed a blue flag along with the chequered flag, but the marshalls didn't realise what was happening.
Moral of the story ; you as a driver have to know who is the race leader (god knows how) & if he's coming past you at the flag, slow down, or speed up !!!!!!!!!!!!!
All in all a disappointing end to a great weekend, especially as the pilot of the Spitfire fired it up towards the end of the BBQ !!!! Mike was probably in bed by then, as he's a serious preparer
BTW Mike, do you know if you've space for us for Monza yet ? I'll pm you.
Yours, Martin