I was right behind Dumas, but he was just fast enough to stay in front. I knew that, if I got past, I could pull away as I was running a little quicker and, when a yellow came out, the team decided to not change tyres so I jumped ahead of the guys in front.
After a while, however, it became obvious that the decision to double stint the tyres wasn't quite working, as everyone started to catch me and then pass me. Another yellow came out, so in I came to change over to Scott. He had a strong stint and, with different strategies out there with so many yellows, he ended up pitting, filling up with fuel and taking tyres and then coming back to the pits to change drivers.
Unfortunately, he had to do another couple of minutes in the car to take him to the minimum driving limit, but eventually I jumped in to finish the race. We were in eighth when we got going again, but the line of cars was up the road as it went green and I had a few clear laps to lay down some quick times and try and catch them.
The car was really hooked up and I was catching the cars at a second or two seconds a lap - and, when I just got behind them, another yellow came out. The team got on the radio and said 'stay out' as the cars in front might have to pit and, when the pit-lane opened, all the top runners went in and I went from eighth to first overall!
On the restart, I got a great jump on everyone and was four seconds in the lead, ahead of the Fernandez and AGR Acuras. I was thinking that it would be a fantastic result to get the top three places on the podium for Acura, but another yellow came out and it was the Fernandez car in the gravel.
When I next looked behind me, I saw the Audi right behind me and knew I was dead meat with a car with 200 more horsepower homing in. On the restart, the Audi blew past me - with the AGR car right in its slipstream... There was no room to block him and I was fourth overall and second in class, with the #7 Penske of Bernhard right behind me - again!
