Best IGP league season

What is the best IGP league season your ever witness/raced in or seen. It can be anything from a close championship battle to loads of winners in a season.

I think his question was theoretical?

But I wouldn't have a clue. I think BRL had a season with a different winner every race didn't it Ed?

A couple of months ago I won a championship on the last corner of the season with one of my other teams.

My championship rival and I had (and still have) drivers that are pretty much equal on balance. During this particular season, he'd started out with a car design advantage that I had to claw back over the early races to become competitive.

By the middle of the season our cars were equal, and I had used some new strategies I'd learned to win a few races on the trot. I'd messed up a couple of events later on, and going into Abu Dhabi I was 3 points behind. I didn't think I would be able to take pole, as he'd started outqualifying me regularly later on, so I decided to run a slightly long (10 lap) opening stint on Softs, switch to Hards for the 11-lap middle stint, and then finish it off with 6 laps on Softs and hope to keep the tires alive. (50% league, so 27 laps.)

When I exited the pits after my final stop, I was about 4 seconds behind, but my two-lap-newer tires - we were both on Softs at the end - meant I had more grip and was about a second per lap faster on the same push level. By about lap 24 I was close to DRS range, and my rival started using a dash of KERS each lap to extend his gap so I couldn't DRS him. I had saved all my KERS knowing that he usually saved all of his for the final lap. I thought about countering with my KERS but decided against it. By the end of lap 25 I was 0.9 behind, and he used a good bit of KERS so I couldn't DRS him again, and going into the final lap he was 1.4 seconds ahead, but I had a full KERS charge and his tires were starting to go off. We both started dumping our KERS at the same time, but my newer tires still had some life and over the course of the lap I was closing in. Going into the final sector I was just about 0.2 seconds behind, and I started thinking it was over. His earlier KERS usage and my decision not to counter it ended up working in my favor - his KERS ran out a few seconds before mine did, and I saw "M Lewis overtakes L Thomas" late in the final sector just as my KERS ran out. I clasped my hands together, whispering "Come on Matt, hold him off, come on!"...

... and he did, by 0.199 seconds.


I asked my rival after the race was over where I'd passed him, as he had 2D and I was on Live Timing. He said it was on the short bit between the last two corners. That one overtake gave me a seven point advantage on the race and I won the title by four points, having taken the race lead with less than 10 seconds to the flag.

Ha, this is my rival's side of the same tale: http://igpmanager.com/play/?url=forum-thread/3582#25927