29-06-2014, 09:56 PM
First of all, sorry for some pushy talking at forum.
The Report.
Qualy
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After heavy working this thursday with the setup I gained a full second to the setup I used the first two races so I was quite confident (even knowing Riks super pace) that I could do a podium finish.
Managed a 2:10.6 and later a 2:10.4, just enough to beat Robert by a tenth and starting second.
Race
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I had little practice on long runs because of dedicating my little spare time to practice on the setup. That showed on race.
Start was good on the green side of the track and managed to get to turn 1 clean behind Rik.
The lack of long runs practice made me make tiny mistakes, enough to struggle to make constant lapping. That made DjC to catch me when we were in lap 10.
After some great battles with Robert behind as a silent predator waiting for us to make a mistake we three went into the pits at the same time. Pit time was 51 seconds an left ahead of the three.
A few laps later I found that Robert was on fire and was cutting on me more than a second every lap. With six laps to go he was on my tail and at the final corner I went a little wide and lost my rear being spit to the left and bad-damaging the car. Damn I was stupid.
Struggling with the car I saw David was 3 seconds behind me. Trying to match his laptimes with the left side damaged car I lost it on the final braking and spun. He passed me and there I was red in embarrasment losing a podium finish.
Luckily Dave Hart was 24 seconds behind so I could bring the car to the end safely endind in an unhappy 4th place.
Well, race was over, some valueable point lost, but also some good ones in the pocket considering I don't like modern Silverstone.
I finally get a good and a bad conclusion from today.
The bad is that I need to do more constant lapping on long runs.
The good is the improvement in the setup of the car that I hope will bring better racing nights in the future.
The Report.
Qualy
-------
After heavy working this thursday with the setup I gained a full second to the setup I used the first two races so I was quite confident (even knowing Riks super pace) that I could do a podium finish.
Managed a 2:10.6 and later a 2:10.4, just enough to beat Robert by a tenth and starting second.
Race
---------
I had little practice on long runs because of dedicating my little spare time to practice on the setup. That showed on race.
Start was good on the green side of the track and managed to get to turn 1 clean behind Rik.
The lack of long runs practice made me make tiny mistakes, enough to struggle to make constant lapping. That made DjC to catch me when we were in lap 10.
After some great battles with Robert behind as a silent predator waiting for us to make a mistake we three went into the pits at the same time. Pit time was 51 seconds an left ahead of the three.
A few laps later I found that Robert was on fire and was cutting on me more than a second every lap. With six laps to go he was on my tail and at the final corner I went a little wide and lost my rear being spit to the left and bad-damaging the car. Damn I was stupid.
Struggling with the car I saw David was 3 seconds behind me. Trying to match his laptimes with the left side damaged car I lost it on the final braking and spun. He passed me and there I was red in embarrasment losing a podium finish.
Luckily Dave Hart was 24 seconds behind so I could bring the car to the end safely endind in an unhappy 4th place.
Well, race was over, some valueable point lost, but also some good ones in the pocket considering I don't like modern Silverstone.
I finally get a good and a bad conclusion from today.
The bad is that I need to do more constant lapping on long runs.
The good is the improvement in the setup of the car that I hope will bring better racing nights in the future.
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