30-01-2017, 08:24 AM
I had very good sensations in the car yesterday, it all felt as if car always did what I wanted it to do.
Weather was not set on the server, and maybe that even helped me being more competitive.
Qualifying took a while to find the time. I went out as early as I could behind David just to get a clear road ahead. But not for a quick lap attempt but for a clean outlap and then make the time attack on the second lap. But I found several traffic on that lap and I had to abort.
The next attempts I also found traffic and only by the end of the session I had a clean lap good enough for pole position.
I had mainly practiced a no pitstop strategy with a heavy car, but seing I was in pole position I decided to go for a single pitstop and a lighter car to ensure I was not overtaken during race start.
Race was quite uneventful. Once I reached T1 in first place I drove the first lap quite cautiously. I saw I was making a gap so in the doubt David was going to do no pitstop and in the fear of getting trapped behind him after refueling and spending the rest of the race behind him (my car was not set up for overtaking) I started pushing hard.
By the end of lap 3 I was about to make my pitstop when I saw David had suddenly lost 10 extra seconds (maybe a crash) so I went out still in first place with David 8 seconds behind.
When David did his pitstop I had Ramon 30+ seconds away so I took it easy and drove taking less risks, finally making it to the end in a single piece.
Weather was not set on the server, and maybe that even helped me being more competitive.
Qualifying took a while to find the time. I went out as early as I could behind David just to get a clear road ahead. But not for a quick lap attempt but for a clean outlap and then make the time attack on the second lap. But I found several traffic on that lap and I had to abort.
The next attempts I also found traffic and only by the end of the session I had a clean lap good enough for pole position.
I had mainly practiced a no pitstop strategy with a heavy car, but seing I was in pole position I decided to go for a single pitstop and a lighter car to ensure I was not overtaken during race start.
Race was quite uneventful. Once I reached T1 in first place I drove the first lap quite cautiously. I saw I was making a gap so in the doubt David was going to do no pitstop and in the fear of getting trapped behind him after refueling and spending the rest of the race behind him (my car was not set up for overtaking) I started pushing hard.
By the end of lap 3 I was about to make my pitstop when I saw David had suddenly lost 10 extra seconds (maybe a crash) so I went out still in first place with David 8 seconds behind.
When David did his pitstop I had Ramon 30+ seconds away so I took it easy and drove taking less risks, finally making it to the end in a single piece.
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