16-06-2014, 09:09 AM
Here's my report.
Qualy
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My best in this track was a 2:12.1 so getting a 2.11.9 was not too bad. Still far away from the Hedlunds. I managed to get a +0.3 at the second sector from the pole but at the 3rd sector I was losing too much time there and having lots of understeer in those curves.
Race 1
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At warmup I made a very bad decision. In order to try and battle my lap-increasing understeer I decided to set the front Anti Roll Bar 4 points softer. This seem to work fine at the warmup. But at the race, even making a very good start and going from 4th to 2nd at turn1, the car's rear was all over the place. Car was undriveable oversteering in every corner. I started losing lot's of time and even got a spin, finding myself in 8th place.
Thinking in what I could do to fix that I decided to pit earlier and add more fuel than programed to try to make the rear a little more stable. Well, that seemed to work and had a little less oversteery car.
Thanks to the earlier pitstop I recovered positions on fresher tires and after Rikards stop&go I found myself in third place. Sweaty battling the car and having D coyne in my mirrors I was able to make it to the finish line in a podium position.
Race2
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Going back to pre-warmup setup I made a clean start in 9th place and I was lucky to get through the outside line of turn1 and gain a few positions there. I quickly found myself in 3th place with Rikard leading, Dave Hart a couple of seconds ahead and a couple of seconds behind DjC defending from the constant attack from Robert.
At the end of lap 5 Dave, me and DjC went to our pitstops. I had a quick one (47seconds) and managed to get ahead of them with a 5 sec gap to David.
The next lap Robert went out of his pitstop 3 sec behind me so the remaining 6 laps were the toughest I've ever had here. Seing Robert closer and closer. with 3 laps to the end he was already on my tail and we had such a superb clean battle to the end. I was feeling the drops of sweat going through my face. Holding Rob was a major effort and finally at the final lap he overtook me and I had nothing to do but finish after him in 3rd place.
Anyway it was a good finish position, again on the podim and after the Hedlunds who seem to be on fire.
Modern Silverstone coming up. As a type of track similar to Sepang (very wide track, similar type of corners) we expect the H brother to be really quick again, and also a high motivated Cruicky racing home.
I hope to get a better result than last yeat disastreous ride there (I really dislike the modern version compared to the superb 90s Silverstone)
Here's a video of the first 2 laps of race 2 from my point of view
[youtube]l2U4PPWkGiw[/youtube]
P.S.: having shoulder pain (muscles tired) after race1 battling such an oversteery car.
Qualy
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My best in this track was a 2:12.1 so getting a 2.11.9 was not too bad. Still far away from the Hedlunds. I managed to get a +0.3 at the second sector from the pole but at the 3rd sector I was losing too much time there and having lots of understeer in those curves.
Race 1
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At warmup I made a very bad decision. In order to try and battle my lap-increasing understeer I decided to set the front Anti Roll Bar 4 points softer. This seem to work fine at the warmup. But at the race, even making a very good start and going from 4th to 2nd at turn1, the car's rear was all over the place. Car was undriveable oversteering in every corner. I started losing lot's of time and even got a spin, finding myself in 8th place.
Thinking in what I could do to fix that I decided to pit earlier and add more fuel than programed to try to make the rear a little more stable. Well, that seemed to work and had a little less oversteery car.
Thanks to the earlier pitstop I recovered positions on fresher tires and after Rikards stop&go I found myself in third place. Sweaty battling the car and having D coyne in my mirrors I was able to make it to the finish line in a podium position.
Race2
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Going back to pre-warmup setup I made a clean start in 9th place and I was lucky to get through the outside line of turn1 and gain a few positions there. I quickly found myself in 3th place with Rikard leading, Dave Hart a couple of seconds ahead and a couple of seconds behind DjC defending from the constant attack from Robert.
At the end of lap 5 Dave, me and DjC went to our pitstops. I had a quick one (47seconds) and managed to get ahead of them with a 5 sec gap to David.
The next lap Robert went out of his pitstop 3 sec behind me so the remaining 6 laps were the toughest I've ever had here. Seing Robert closer and closer. with 3 laps to the end he was already on my tail and we had such a superb clean battle to the end. I was feeling the drops of sweat going through my face. Holding Rob was a major effort and finally at the final lap he overtook me and I had nothing to do but finish after him in 3rd place.
Anyway it was a good finish position, again on the podim and after the Hedlunds who seem to be on fire.
Modern Silverstone coming up. As a type of track similar to Sepang (very wide track, similar type of corners) we expect the H brother to be really quick again, and also a high motivated Cruicky racing home.
I hope to get a better result than last yeat disastreous ride there (I really dislike the modern version compared to the superb 90s Silverstone)
Here's a video of the first 2 laps of race 2 from my point of view
[youtube]l2U4PPWkGiw[/youtube]
P.S.: having shoulder pain (muscles tired) after race1 battling such an oversteery car.
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