06-10-2014, 09:04 PM
Didn't practice at all for this event, due to other concurrent races 
Made a decent quali lap (1:47.0) that placed me 8th. I could get at least half a second down, but spun out in the grass in two consecutive tries, so there was no time left for a 3rd one.
Race 1: started badly: when David Hart hit the wall in T1, his car bounced back and shunted me gently towards the grass on the opposite side, losing a couple of positions. Was this R2? Maybe. Anyway, a couple of errors on my part and I was 13th. Quickly back to 10th, but after a few laps I lost connection...
Race 2: started 14th or so. Not many hopes, but then... flying cars, multiple crashes and I was 9th already half a lap after the start. A small mistake in third sector and I went back one or two positions. From there on, I just locked on a good pace and did lap after lap, passing crashed opponents until I found myself in 6th, then 5th passing Nikos I believe before pitting. Coming in the pits, I had Edwin ahead of me, pitting too. He left the pits around 10 seconds before me, and was around 15s ahead after we restarted with me in 4th or 5th, I don't remember.
What I remember well is that I was hardly able to gain time on him. Ed, you had a good pace
Then suddenly, I'm in 3rd. Edwin must have had a drive-through for speeding in pits. He came out of pits 5s behind me.
Perfect time to do stupid errors, but no, I kept cool and managed to bring home my first podium ever for Alfa Corse and in SR4L league races! Yay!
Made a decent quali lap (1:47.0) that placed me 8th. I could get at least half a second down, but spun out in the grass in two consecutive tries, so there was no time left for a 3rd one.
Race 1: started badly: when David Hart hit the wall in T1, his car bounced back and shunted me gently towards the grass on the opposite side, losing a couple of positions. Was this R2? Maybe. Anyway, a couple of errors on my part and I was 13th. Quickly back to 10th, but after a few laps I lost connection...
Race 2: started 14th or so. Not many hopes, but then... flying cars, multiple crashes and I was 9th already half a lap after the start. A small mistake in third sector and I went back one or two positions. From there on, I just locked on a good pace and did lap after lap, passing crashed opponents until I found myself in 6th, then 5th passing Nikos I believe before pitting. Coming in the pits, I had Edwin ahead of me, pitting too. He left the pits around 10 seconds before me, and was around 15s ahead after we restarted with me in 4th or 5th, I don't remember.
What I remember well is that I was hardly able to gain time on him. Ed, you had a good pace
Then suddenly, I'm in 3rd. Edwin must have had a drive-through for speeding in pits. He came out of pits 5s behind me.
Perfect time to do stupid errors, but no, I kept cool and managed to bring home my first podium ever for Alfa Corse and in SR4L league races! Yay!