10-04-2017, 07:33 AM
Well, it's not exactly a rule, it relies more in the drivers' will. Some wait for you, some don't (or can't because of race situation), many factors involved. I haven't seen the incident so I can't give an opinion.
My qualifying went well. Still working on the car's setup due to little practice. Time was enough for third place, what was good enough.
I had planned refueling for the pitstop which sould last around a minute when I read Nikos saying pitstop would be around 40 seconds. Something wrong in my pitstop? Then I thought that maybe refueling and tire changing weren't done simultaneously so I went quickly for a pitstop with no refueling and I discovered it was that way, so I quickly changed my pitting strategy and added fuel for the whole race for the start.
Race1
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Lost third place to Scott at turn 1 which I was able to regain later.
I could keep the pace of the leaders and race David and Kristijan. By lap 4 I overtook Kristijan and a lap later I went to do my pitstop. I relied on the rpm counter lights, just slightly above the second green light to be around 90 something km/h, but I may have been too over enthusiastic and received a drive through for speeding.
That costed me the fight with the leading drivers, but at least I was able to recover up to third place.
Race2
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Starting 7th I entered turn1 very carefully losing a couple of places but quickly the cars ahead went into trouble and I quickly found myself in the leading places. Had an interesting battle with Mel, very hard fighter but finally I was able to overtake him.
Later after being able to pass Edwin I was in second place a couple of seconds behind David. I went for my pitstop, this time careful not to get a penalty but couldn't get an advantage on David.
I was happy with my pace, not good enough to atack David but at least I was able to improve lap by lap doing by best lap of the race in the final lap.
My qualifying went well. Still working on the car's setup due to little practice. Time was enough for third place, what was good enough.
I had planned refueling for the pitstop which sould last around a minute when I read Nikos saying pitstop would be around 40 seconds. Something wrong in my pitstop? Then I thought that maybe refueling and tire changing weren't done simultaneously so I went quickly for a pitstop with no refueling and I discovered it was that way, so I quickly changed my pitting strategy and added fuel for the whole race for the start.
Race1
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Lost third place to Scott at turn 1 which I was able to regain later.
I could keep the pace of the leaders and race David and Kristijan. By lap 4 I overtook Kristijan and a lap later I went to do my pitstop. I relied on the rpm counter lights, just slightly above the second green light to be around 90 something km/h, but I may have been too over enthusiastic and received a drive through for speeding.
That costed me the fight with the leading drivers, but at least I was able to recover up to third place.
Race2
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Starting 7th I entered turn1 very carefully losing a couple of places but quickly the cars ahead went into trouble and I quickly found myself in the leading places. Had an interesting battle with Mel, very hard fighter but finally I was able to overtake him.
Later after being able to pass Edwin I was in second place a couple of seconds behind David. I went for my pitstop, this time careful not to get a penalty but couldn't get an advantage on David.
I was happy with my pace, not good enough to atack David but at least I was able to improve lap by lap doing by best lap of the race in the final lap.
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