01-04-2013, 10:29 AM
With summer time change, Me and my team came an hour late to the track (were expecting 20GMT for race start) and when we arrived qualy had already started.
With cold muscles I went quick to the track, Luckily it was fully rubbered and I was able to quickly find good grip, bringing myself to second fastest 1.20.667 (a lot better than expected after struggling all week, looks all that rubber helped me a lot).
Race1
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With the controversy of pole position starting at the green side of the road, I was able to get the traction of the rubbered side and therefor took the lead at race start.
Marcel and I were racing about the same pace being in an average 1 sec gap.
He went to pit at the end of lap 8, I went the next lap as I had planned a 9(50l)+6(34l) laps strategy.
Maybe because of coming late to track my pit crew was a bit disconcentrated and were slow all weekend. The pitstop took 49 sec (46 is the best they can achieve) and at that moment I though I would be coming to racetrack behind Marcel. Luckily he was still a second behind after my pitstop. Then a sweaty battle became with him, always less than a second behind.
The final lap was dramatic, heavy traffic in front. Also a smoky car came from the pits (not respecting the pit lane ???) and made it imposible to see a thing between turn 2 and 4. At turn 5 I was a little wide and we were side by side for a moment, as I had better traction due to coming from a wider line I was able to keep ahead. At the backstraight Marcel was at my slipstream, I went to the right to defend the inside line. He tried from the outside (One of Marcel's strongest points) But I was able to keep the speed and finally made it to the checkered flag first.
Final lap (better seen in youtube at a bigger size):
[youtube]Dwbe6A3WYgw[/youtube]
Race2
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I wasn't expecting that much difference in grip between race1 rubbered track and race 2 "filed" rubber. I suffered a lot in the first two laps and lost 5 places in there. As laps went by, grip started to come again and I was able to gaing back some places, until in my final lap before pitting, right behind Jason he run out of fuel right before the backstraight. His car suddlenly lost all speed. I tried to avoid him but our wheels touched and crashed. I damaged my car there but disabled the repair as it would've taken too much time lost. Went for the scheduled pitstop wich again was slow and took 50 seconds.
The rest of the race was a battle with a damaged car to finish 4th (I guess)
Jason runs out of fuel incident:
[youtube]DDXYKG-SZ-w[/youtube]
Race 3
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Starting at the mid back of the grid. Mel Fisk in front of me did not make a good start. I was about to try through his left but then I remembered the Corvettes and a crash in a similar situation at race 3. So I stayed there just to try it in the braking were he brake quite early. Although I was well on the left to avoid incidents I was hit at my rear wheels and spun.
Went back to racing where lap by lap I gained several positions. At a moment I was already third closing the gap to DjC who was battling Jason. At lap 8 I was about to catch them, so not wanting to lose time in their battle I decided to pit one lap early.
Again my crew were not fast and took 49seconds to change tires and refuel (They must practice hard this two weeks). At the next lap I found myself virtually second, 2secs behind DjC. The remaining 6 laps was a fierce battle trying to cut that gap, but it remained the same till the end.
Sweaty but happy to end up second.
Then came the CTD and lost any replay file from this race.
Note: I don't know if we have a rule about this, but I saw some car zig zagging on the backstraight trying to defend his position from others.
Note2: In saved replays I don't get to see other car's skins, do you?
With cold muscles I went quick to the track, Luckily it was fully rubbered and I was able to quickly find good grip, bringing myself to second fastest 1.20.667 (a lot better than expected after struggling all week, looks all that rubber helped me a lot).
Race1
--------
With the controversy of pole position starting at the green side of the road, I was able to get the traction of the rubbered side and therefor took the lead at race start.
Marcel and I were racing about the same pace being in an average 1 sec gap.
He went to pit at the end of lap 8, I went the next lap as I had planned a 9(50l)+6(34l) laps strategy.
Maybe because of coming late to track my pit crew was a bit disconcentrated and were slow all weekend. The pitstop took 49 sec (46 is the best they can achieve) and at that moment I though I would be coming to racetrack behind Marcel. Luckily he was still a second behind after my pitstop. Then a sweaty battle became with him, always less than a second behind.
The final lap was dramatic, heavy traffic in front. Also a smoky car came from the pits (not respecting the pit lane ???) and made it imposible to see a thing between turn 2 and 4. At turn 5 I was a little wide and we were side by side for a moment, as I had better traction due to coming from a wider line I was able to keep ahead. At the backstraight Marcel was at my slipstream, I went to the right to defend the inside line. He tried from the outside (One of Marcel's strongest points) But I was able to keep the speed and finally made it to the checkered flag first.
Final lap (better seen in youtube at a bigger size):
[youtube]Dwbe6A3WYgw[/youtube]
Race2
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I wasn't expecting that much difference in grip between race1 rubbered track and race 2 "filed" rubber. I suffered a lot in the first two laps and lost 5 places in there. As laps went by, grip started to come again and I was able to gaing back some places, until in my final lap before pitting, right behind Jason he run out of fuel right before the backstraight. His car suddlenly lost all speed. I tried to avoid him but our wheels touched and crashed. I damaged my car there but disabled the repair as it would've taken too much time lost. Went for the scheduled pitstop wich again was slow and took 50 seconds.
The rest of the race was a battle with a damaged car to finish 4th (I guess)
Jason runs out of fuel incident:
[youtube]DDXYKG-SZ-w[/youtube]
Race 3
---------
Starting at the mid back of the grid. Mel Fisk in front of me did not make a good start. I was about to try through his left but then I remembered the Corvettes and a crash in a similar situation at race 3. So I stayed there just to try it in the braking were he brake quite early. Although I was well on the left to avoid incidents I was hit at my rear wheels and spun.
Went back to racing where lap by lap I gained several positions. At a moment I was already third closing the gap to DjC who was battling Jason. At lap 8 I was about to catch them, so not wanting to lose time in their battle I decided to pit one lap early.
Again my crew were not fast and took 49seconds to change tires and refuel (They must practice hard this two weeks). At the next lap I found myself virtually second, 2secs behind DjC. The remaining 6 laps was a fierce battle trying to cut that gap, but it remained the same till the end.
Sweaty but happy to end up second.
Then came the CTD and lost any replay file from this race.
Note: I don't know if we have a rule about this, but I saw some car zig zagging on the backstraight trying to defend his position from others.
Note2: In saved replays I don't get to see other car's skins, do you?
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