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Read my comment to see why.

I don’t think he was going for a drafted pass there. I think he was hoping I’d lift first so he could cut inside.

Yeah totally agree with your comments and I was laughing at my impatience when I was reviewing the video footage. I did remember this about half way through the race but at that point I was really just trying to fill Dan's mirrors and pressure him, I really felt there was no point in passing him at Turn 1 just to get repassed going into 5, my plan was to try and pass at Canada Corner on the very last lap but I didn't get a good enough run and didn't want to push it in the first race of the season. Thanks for the detailed comments, really good stuff and will definitely keep top of mind for IMS next month!!

@@soccer14blood08 But, that's what I mean. The worst possible way to get by a driver is entering a corner because you need momentum to go fast down the next straight. Any pass should be completed before the corner so you can get back on the fast line.

@@jeffreytz Watch the movie Grand Prix when Garner explains drafting and slipstreaming at Monza. That's where and when I learned it. I'll tell you a little story. 1978 Super National at Watkins Glen. 64 car field. It was my first SCCA race out of the Skip Barber series that I won the year before. I was in a SB school Crossle 32F. I was being very careful in qualifying but still qualified third. In the race, I stayed behind 4 National Champions in 2-5 place so I could learn how they raced because I didn't learn anything in the SB series. Halfway through the race I realized that they had no idea how to draft and slipstream or how and where to pass. This confused me because I wasn't very confident so how could this be. I decided that maybe I should see what I could do. The man on the radar had told me I was the fastest car through the chicane that was in the Ss at that time so I would use that to my advantage gaining speed up the hill and out onto the straight. I was accelerating up to the fourth guy and lifting almost all the way off the throttle and was still being sucked up into them. The second and fourth car pulled out to pass so they were all side by side in two rows and were all stuck like that. I followed that fourth guy to the inside and then floored the throttle and shot past all four cars. I went from 6th to 2nd in one pass! In my first race of any kind in the SCCA. Past four National Champions, all because of what James Garder said. Now, here is where race strategy and patients come into play. I had the two Van Dieman factory team drivers behind me heading into the Boot. I had learned what they did to each other in the Toe of the Boot and knew I didn't want to be in front of them when they did that, so I let them both by me into the boot. The second one tried to pass his teammate and pushed him wide, and I just blasted pass them both as if they weren't even there and was back into second place. "Sometimes you have to go slow to go fast and sometimes you have to let people pass you so you can pass them."