19-11-2012, 06:23 PM
Soo here comes my race report on the Malaysia event:
Quali: After struggling in my first few Laps out, the seconds few Laps out were much better...reducing the tire pressure gave me a bit more Grip i think. Thus i was able to get my first .25 Lap on Malaysia: an 2:25:662. On the third few Laps out, i wasn’t really able to reproduce that. Concentration was gone and i was too much on all these slippery curbs.
Race 1: I wasn’t really prepared for the 69 Liters i put in the car at the start. My gear ratio on first was much too long which led to an dreadful start which again led to David Coyne overtaking me before the first corner.
After that i tried to force that heavy rear end through all the corners Malaysia threw at me...but it was no good: after having to let Marcel pass me at the end of lap 1 the rear end turned around on me half way through lap 2.
The following 3 laps were just watching the Fight between Coyne and Marcel in the distance, but then lap 6 held a special challenge for me: “crew ready for pitstop”....ummm....uuh...how the heck do i get into the pits??
i just noticed on lap 6, that i never had pitted in malaysia ever, and that i also never had seen a pit entry - since you don’t notice it when driving through the last hairpin normally. So i began to search for a pit entry from the second to last corner on
after finally finding the damn crew in the damn pits i promised myself never to do that mistake again...we will see
Race 2: At the start of race 2, Coyne hit my back a little bit after missing his braking point to T1. Luckily i was just sped up a bit, not turned around by this shunt.
After that, marcel and i played a tandem for 6 laps. Him in front, me in the back, lap after lap after lap. i think the biggest gap we had was 6 tenths, but mostly it was less than 4 tenths. I had some small chances to overtake him, but considering he needed the points for the overall-ranking, i didn’t want to wreck him....so i needed a secure chance for overtaking him. But you guys know marcel...he never makes a mistake. So some aborted half hearted tries to overtake was all i did. i hoped for the pitstop to decide.
In tune with our similar laptimes, we also had the same pit-strategies and entered the pits end of lap 6 - with only few tenths between us. Sadly my lazy old pit-crew wasn’t up for all this hectic racing and took two seconds longer to fill up my little tank than it took marcels pit-crew. I wasn’t able to undo that in my last lap, so it was place 2 all over again.
Race 3: After a good start i was making a good progress through the field. Only overtaking Paul Wickham was quite tricky, since he seemed to have had quite some lag. I nearly took him out with my overtaking move - apologies for that!
Now i was on P4 and already smelled a great race in front of me...but my heavy rear end had other plans again: second to last corner on lap one i was facing backwards again. This lost me two places.
After that it was chasing after the leaders and in lap 5 i had restored the classic situation: Marcel on P1, me on P2...dammit! But this time i wasn’t all that kind with marcel - he already had two wins this weekend, so it was time for fighting!
On the last corner of lap 6 - we were both headed to the pits - i was able to leap past marcel into the now well known pit-entrance. This time around, my pit crew was a little bit more motivated, so we both emerged from the pits like we entered them before: Me on P1, Marcel on P2.
In that last lap the rear-end took revenge for all the bad names i had called it in the hour before. It did step out several times and worst of all, in the very last corner of the race. I had to take the hairpin in one big drift making room for the last attack of Marcel. We raced down the Straight, side by side, nose to nose...but in the end i was one nose short if winning...so we had the same result as in all races: Marcel 1; Johannes 2
Quali: After struggling in my first few Laps out, the seconds few Laps out were much better...reducing the tire pressure gave me a bit more Grip i think. Thus i was able to get my first .25 Lap on Malaysia: an 2:25:662. On the third few Laps out, i wasn’t really able to reproduce that. Concentration was gone and i was too much on all these slippery curbs.
Race 1: I wasn’t really prepared for the 69 Liters i put in the car at the start. My gear ratio on first was much too long which led to an dreadful start which again led to David Coyne overtaking me before the first corner.
After that i tried to force that heavy rear end through all the corners Malaysia threw at me...but it was no good: after having to let Marcel pass me at the end of lap 1 the rear end turned around on me half way through lap 2.
The following 3 laps were just watching the Fight between Coyne and Marcel in the distance, but then lap 6 held a special challenge for me: “crew ready for pitstop”....ummm....uuh...how the heck do i get into the pits??
i just noticed on lap 6, that i never had pitted in malaysia ever, and that i also never had seen a pit entry - since you don’t notice it when driving through the last hairpin normally. So i began to search for a pit entry from the second to last corner on
after finally finding the damn crew in the damn pits i promised myself never to do that mistake again...we will seeRace 2: At the start of race 2, Coyne hit my back a little bit after missing his braking point to T1. Luckily i was just sped up a bit, not turned around by this shunt.
After that, marcel and i played a tandem for 6 laps. Him in front, me in the back, lap after lap after lap. i think the biggest gap we had was 6 tenths, but mostly it was less than 4 tenths. I had some small chances to overtake him, but considering he needed the points for the overall-ranking, i didn’t want to wreck him....so i needed a secure chance for overtaking him. But you guys know marcel...he never makes a mistake. So some aborted half hearted tries to overtake was all i did. i hoped for the pitstop to decide.
In tune with our similar laptimes, we also had the same pit-strategies and entered the pits end of lap 6 - with only few tenths between us. Sadly my lazy old pit-crew wasn’t up for all this hectic racing and took two seconds longer to fill up my little tank than it took marcels pit-crew. I wasn’t able to undo that in my last lap, so it was place 2 all over again.
Race 3: After a good start i was making a good progress through the field. Only overtaking Paul Wickham was quite tricky, since he seemed to have had quite some lag. I nearly took him out with my overtaking move - apologies for that!
Now i was on P4 and already smelled a great race in front of me...but my heavy rear end had other plans again: second to last corner on lap one i was facing backwards again. This lost me two places.
After that it was chasing after the leaders and in lap 5 i had restored the classic situation: Marcel on P1, me on P2...dammit! But this time i wasn’t all that kind with marcel - he already had two wins this weekend, so it was time for fighting!
On the last corner of lap 6 - we were both headed to the pits - i was able to leap past marcel into the now well known pit-entrance. This time around, my pit crew was a little bit more motivated, so we both emerged from the pits like we entered them before: Me on P1, Marcel on P2.
In that last lap the rear-end took revenge for all the bad names i had called it in the hour before. It did step out several times and worst of all, in the very last corner of the race. I had to take the hairpin in one big drift making room for the last attack of Marcel. We raced down the Straight, side by side, nose to nose...but in the end i was one nose short if winning...so we had the same result as in all races: Marcel 1; Johannes 2