Erdos was in a good position for the start, tucked onto the inside and with a clear run up the main straight. As the lights turned green the track became shrouded in dense spray as 35 cars headed towards the first corner. Erdos, jostling for position among the leaders, went for his brakes, but his foot - and the car - kept travelling. A passenger in the slippery conditions, Erdos was sent spinning off the track, narrowly missing the cars around him. More than half the field had sped past before he recovered the track, leaving the MG-Lola in 19th overall. Erdos struggled gamely with the spongy pedal and started to make progress through the midfield, but the braking situation steadily worsened.

With half an hour completed he headed for the pitlane, where the team spent nearly ten minutes bleeding the system. Erdos and the car were instantly transformed. Restored to one of the fastest cars on the circuit, the RML MG-Lola began to cut its way through the field. It was an awesome display by Erdos, who moved from penultimate place to 30th inside twenty minutes, establishing a fastest lap in class along the way. “Once we’d sorted the brakes we were lapping as fast as the overall leaders,” confirmed Erdos. “We climbed back up to third in class!” By the close of the second hour he was into the top twenty and running line-astern with Lammers’ Dome and the recovering Lister Storm, both LMP 900 entrants. Not only was he keeping pace with them but the gap was visibly closing.