12-10-2015, 11:04 AM
What a disaster. I was suspecting that would happen after only having practiced for half an hour in the whole week and no long stints.
Qualy
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quickly got some 33s but with the sensation that I wasn't doing a good lap. Later in the session I managed it and got my 32.9 that was good enough for second place.
Race 1
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Started fine on the rubbered side and reached side to side to turn 1. Having Rik on the inner side there was no need to battle him and decided to protect my second place from the drivers behind.
I was lapping fine and cautiously on second place having DjC behind but far enough to be safe. Some laps later we reached a lapped car that took two laps for him to let us through. This helped DjC to stay right on my tail. The next lap I was a bit wide after the back straight and with him right on my back I had to keep foot on the throttle to defend position. This caused me to take the next curves completely offline and reach to the next braking with car not under control. That was enough to go wide to the grass and hit the barriers hard.
Had to drive with a damaged car to he pits and wait for a 110sec repair.
After that all I could do was drive fast to try to regain some positions, finally ending in 12th place.
Race 2
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Made a good start from my 9th grid place and I was able to overtake Rikard before turn 1. I had Tim on my left and was trying to give him enough room. But due to lack of rubber after server restart I was more wide than I wanted touching wheels with Tim and being spit to the wall (I'm sorry Tim). It wasn't a hard hit but unexpectedly car had severe damage, a lot more than in Race 1.
At this moment I though "still a full lap to the pits, with a lot of damage, just to wait for 3-4 minutes repairing the car and end up last...." I pressed scape and exited.
Let's hope Longford goes better.
Qualy
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quickly got some 33s but with the sensation that I wasn't doing a good lap. Later in the session I managed it and got my 32.9 that was good enough for second place.
Race 1
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Started fine on the rubbered side and reached side to side to turn 1. Having Rik on the inner side there was no need to battle him and decided to protect my second place from the drivers behind.
I was lapping fine and cautiously on second place having DjC behind but far enough to be safe. Some laps later we reached a lapped car that took two laps for him to let us through. This helped DjC to stay right on my tail. The next lap I was a bit wide after the back straight and with him right on my back I had to keep foot on the throttle to defend position. This caused me to take the next curves completely offline and reach to the next braking with car not under control. That was enough to go wide to the grass and hit the barriers hard.
Had to drive with a damaged car to he pits and wait for a 110sec repair.
After that all I could do was drive fast to try to regain some positions, finally ending in 12th place.
Race 2
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Made a good start from my 9th grid place and I was able to overtake Rikard before turn 1. I had Tim on my left and was trying to give him enough room. But due to lack of rubber after server restart I was more wide than I wanted touching wheels with Tim and being spit to the wall (I'm sorry Tim). It wasn't a hard hit but unexpectedly car had severe damage, a lot more than in Race 1.
At this moment I though "still a full lap to the pits, with a lot of damage, just to wait for 3-4 minutes repairing the car and end up last...." I pressed scape and exited.
Let's hope Longford goes better.
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