with the lighting speed both Mercedes had down the straights and both these two were now in to the top 10.  Also going well with them was Penfold, who was backing up his promising display from Road Atlanta with another good drive in the unfaniced Kia.  His teammate Kenty had lost time early on, but now was flying along and making up places and heading back in to the top 10 himself.  Stew’s lead out front lasted 2 laps before he was the next to make an error this now left Mike in first place, but he was the only TVR to come around.  Billy had been following a few seconds behind, but a couple of offs had seen him lose a few seconds, and the power died and the car rolled to a stop.  He was far from happy with a very rare mechanical issue to the team and the crowd left disappointed to lose the potential battle between the TVR twins. 

Mike now led by 6 seconds, Stew trying hard to close that back down, and these two well clear of new third place driver NitroRushmini.  Nitro is proving to be one of the most consistent and mistake free drivers in the series, and once again, as walls were clipped and time lost by others, the Corvette driver was running fantastically and now ahead of RangersRick and Bradderstig for the final podium spots.  Catching these guys though was the recovering Devil Lord, who was flying along, and not far behind him, were the other two recovering cars of Kenty and Posh Rob.  Mike continued to maintain his lead, his laps consistently in and around the 2.12s, whilst Stew lapped slightly faster some laps but in the 13s and 14s on others.  Lap 12 saw Stew make his stop, and over the next few laps so did a number of other runners, which left Mike out front and now being chased by the Audi TT of Devil Lord.  The RML technical guys were on the pit wall trying to work out if they could do the race without stopping and on lap 20 decided no and the leader came in taking no chances.  He rejoined twenty seconds in front and clear barring mistakes from the rest.  Devil Lord set a new lap record trying to chase him down, but could only do so by 5 seconds as the chequered flag fell.  Mike was overjoyed at the victory, and the result moved him with touching distance of a second title.  “I didn’t expect to win, but I just found some consistency and in fact it was like being in autopilot.  The car felt so good and handled superbly, I got a good balance on the aero as well”.  For Devil Lord his first podium was small consolation, the Cerberus driver felt this was the second time in a week where he could of tasted victory and was disappointed with himself.  The final podium finisher was also disappointed.  Atomstew also felt he could have repeated the feats of 7 days ago, and that a couple of errors had cost him dear unlike at Road Atlanta.  He was happy though with another podium and vowing to be a championship contender next season, not that his signature is currently on a contract for Season 3.

Nitrorush continued to be best of the rest, withstanding the attack from Bradders, and in the last few laps the flying Kia.  Kenty didn’t have enough to pass the Corvette, but it was a mightily impressive performance from both drivers.  6th went to Bradderstig who felt the Ferrari to be fat and wide around Bathurst, and he was happy with the team points, especially as the second DARE Ferrari came home 9th, a difficult end for Posh Rob, after a great start to the day.  Posh Rob beating the CK Motorsport Alfa 33 of ABigPieKey late on.  It started off being a great season for the team, but again they struggled for pace as development of the car comes to an end.  7th was the sole KRR Nissan of RangersRick, who was overjoyed to keep his lead in the Class Championship and to escape Bathurst, whilst in 8th we had wide celebrations for the AM winners.  No it wasn’t Basslinejunkio, but instead it was the SMEG Racing Mercedes of Badbeat.  The little Mercedes stayed out of trouble, but it was fast as well, setting the fastest lap in class, and Badbeat kept out of trouble on the mountain and flew down the straights.  He was overjoyed and so were the team, even more so after the race when it was announced they had signed to join the K-Class Vapes team in the Escorts next season.  His teammate for next season, Basslinejunkio, was going backwards as the race wore on, a slight hit with the wall had affected the radiator and the cooling and he was running at a slower pace to stop the engine expiring.

Such was Devil Lord's pace, he was disappointed with a career best second