Two in One.

F1 this week was very much two races in one. One where Josh gave up, one where Jim didn’t.

For most of the race Josh and Simon were battling neck and neck for the lead, Josh ahead at the half-distance tea break by just 0.01 seconds. Simon won heat 4 to open a lead of 0.24, then extended it to 3.64 in heat 5, at which point Josh gave up and crawled round his final heat 24 seconds slower than any of his previous heats, fortunate to avoid being overtaken by David and hold on to second place.

Lower down, Chris and Alex had spent the first half of the race squabbling over 4th, but a poor heat 4 dropped Alex to 7th, then a disastrous final heat saw him fall to 9th.

In the fight for 6th, Mario had started well, even climbing as high as 5th after heat 2, but something went wrong during the tea break and he was much slower in the second half of the race, dropping to an eventual 8th.

Jim’s race didn’t get off to a good start and he spent the first five heats languishing in 9th place, but Jim’s nothing if not a fighter and he kept trying until the bitter end, a brilliant final heat, several seconds quicker than his preceding five, seeing him overtake Mario and Alex and almost catch Neil for 6th too. As ever in racing, it’s never over till it’s over.