06-04-2020, 09:16 PM
I was never a huge fan of Silverstone, whatever the shape or form, be it modern or old. I don’t know why, it has quick bends and corners flowing into each other, but it just never worked for me somehow.
The same thing here, I struggled for pure speed and could never get that proper feeling from the car. I was actually quite happy to achieve 5th position in Q and even happier when I made a very good getaway from the dirty side of the track.
It was tight through T1 and Ramon Bauer and I were side by side for T2 until disaster #1 struck. As he mentioned above, he just didn’t see me and moved across, causing us to slide off the track.
I was saved from the carnage and only had light damage, but my left front tyre was severely damaged. Throughout the first stint the tyre constantly overheated. On the straights it never went under 110 degrees and in the corners it went up to 140+, and there was nothing I could do. I struggled to make up positions. I was on a low downforce setup as well, which meant it was tricky to keep close enough to other cars throughout the corners for me to overtake on the straights. It took me several laps before I managed to take the appropriate lines to prevent understeering wide.
I was on softs with a 2-stop strategy and back into 3rd again for my first stop on lap 18. After DJ did his only pit stop later on, I was following him around, and even though we were on different strategies, I just pushed a bit too hard. And so disaster struck again. Before steering into T1 I hit the outside grass, the car steered itself into the wall and I had severe damage. Argh.
The first big mistake I have made this league...
A slow lap plus repairs of about a minute saw me back into 10th position. Valuable points being lost! Ouch...
I fought back to 6th position and with a bit more than 10 laps to go found myself behind the leader JP. With not much to gain unlapping myself, being more than 20s behind Dan in P5, I just decided to follow him to the finish and save myself the extra lap.
Unfortunately disaster didn't seem to end at this track. When JP was lapping Bruce in the chicane there was a bit of mixup and he had to take evasive action. I couldn’t avoid him anymore and just clipped his front, sending me into a spin. Luckily I didn't take out the race leader and we could go on our way again.
Again I had to overtake Shannon, who must have been getting tired of seeing me overtaking him only to be dropping down the order again all race already haha.
My front left tyre was pretty damaged again from the slide; severely overheating and now sending me sliding everywhere. Both JP and I took it really easy those final 10 laps to make it across the finish intact.
Well, this race was a bit of a disaster for me. Worst result so far, losing many points to JP. I am going to blame the lovely weather for this though
. We had a big BBQ here (in terms of food and wine, no company allowed in isolation of course), and that probably didn’t help my form.
I will need to up my game to keep myself ahead of JP in the standings! I seem to miss this bit of speed in qualifying, which always makes the race a real uphill struggle. Let's hope the next tracks fit my driving style a bit better again.
The same thing here, I struggled for pure speed and could never get that proper feeling from the car. I was actually quite happy to achieve 5th position in Q and even happier when I made a very good getaway from the dirty side of the track.
It was tight through T1 and Ramon Bauer and I were side by side for T2 until disaster #1 struck. As he mentioned above, he just didn’t see me and moved across, causing us to slide off the track.
I was saved from the carnage and only had light damage, but my left front tyre was severely damaged. Throughout the first stint the tyre constantly overheated. On the straights it never went under 110 degrees and in the corners it went up to 140+, and there was nothing I could do. I struggled to make up positions. I was on a low downforce setup as well, which meant it was tricky to keep close enough to other cars throughout the corners for me to overtake on the straights. It took me several laps before I managed to take the appropriate lines to prevent understeering wide.
I was on softs with a 2-stop strategy and back into 3rd again for my first stop on lap 18. After DJ did his only pit stop later on, I was following him around, and even though we were on different strategies, I just pushed a bit too hard. And so disaster struck again. Before steering into T1 I hit the outside grass, the car steered itself into the wall and I had severe damage. Argh.
The first big mistake I have made this league...
A slow lap plus repairs of about a minute saw me back into 10th position. Valuable points being lost! Ouch...
I fought back to 6th position and with a bit more than 10 laps to go found myself behind the leader JP. With not much to gain unlapping myself, being more than 20s behind Dan in P5, I just decided to follow him to the finish and save myself the extra lap.
Unfortunately disaster didn't seem to end at this track. When JP was lapping Bruce in the chicane there was a bit of mixup and he had to take evasive action. I couldn’t avoid him anymore and just clipped his front, sending me into a spin. Luckily I didn't take out the race leader and we could go on our way again.
Again I had to overtake Shannon, who must have been getting tired of seeing me overtaking him only to be dropping down the order again all race already haha.
My front left tyre was pretty damaged again from the slide; severely overheating and now sending me sliding everywhere. Both JP and I took it really easy those final 10 laps to make it across the finish intact.
Well, this race was a bit of a disaster for me. Worst result so far, losing many points to JP. I am going to blame the lovely weather for this though
. We had a big BBQ here (in terms of food and wine, no company allowed in isolation of course), and that probably didn’t help my form.I will need to up my game to keep myself ahead of JP in the standings! I seem to miss this bit of speed in qualifying, which always makes the race a real uphill struggle. Let's hope the next tracks fit my driving style a bit better again.