19-10-2014, 10:10 PM
Embarrasing race :-[
After making 2nd place in qualifying I had good hopes for this race.On practice I had a god racing pace lapping constant laps and taking enough care of the tires to have them in the green almost for 30 laps.
At the moment we were about to the second attempt of race start the phone rung, wife put it on my ear as it was my mother. She finally hung as we were about to get the green flag. :o
At race start just thought of getting quickly behind David and getting on the rubbered lane but Rikard was taking David's slipstream and I had to keep on the dirty side. At turn 1 entry as I shifted from 4th to 5th gear I completely lost the rear of the car and headed straight to the wall.
Damn I'm stupid, I thought. Car was flying and crashing the fence without control, I pressed the Scape key about to leave and avoid ruining others' race. But as I saw everyone was getting safely I didn't click on the exit race button.
Got back to the pits for repairs which took 80 seconds. From there I had to race the next 57 laps with the same set of tires and a 70+ liter tank. Wished I could gain some positions back but as I found group of 4 cars battling eachother, when I tried to overtake them and outlap myself I quickly got blue flagged, so I had to stay behind these cars untill they decided to go to their pitstops.
At around lap 35 my right tires got in the yellow, grip was being noticeable reduced on corners, mainly at even corners. DjC, coming from his pitstop, quickly reached me and lapped me.
I tood advantage of his slipstream to remain there till almost the end of the race. For a moment I tried to outlap him as he seemed to struggle with front grip at some corners but as I saw I couldn't get enough advantage I gave back my position and remained behind him.
Not the best of comebacks. :-\
After making 2nd place in qualifying I had good hopes for this race.On practice I had a god racing pace lapping constant laps and taking enough care of the tires to have them in the green almost for 30 laps.
At the moment we were about to the second attempt of race start the phone rung, wife put it on my ear as it was my mother. She finally hung as we were about to get the green flag. :o
At race start just thought of getting quickly behind David and getting on the rubbered lane but Rikard was taking David's slipstream and I had to keep on the dirty side. At turn 1 entry as I shifted from 4th to 5th gear I completely lost the rear of the car and headed straight to the wall.
Damn I'm stupid, I thought. Car was flying and crashing the fence without control, I pressed the Scape key about to leave and avoid ruining others' race. But as I saw everyone was getting safely I didn't click on the exit race button.
Got back to the pits for repairs which took 80 seconds. From there I had to race the next 57 laps with the same set of tires and a 70+ liter tank. Wished I could gain some positions back but as I found group of 4 cars battling eachother, when I tried to overtake them and outlap myself I quickly got blue flagged, so I had to stay behind these cars untill they decided to go to their pitstops.
At around lap 35 my right tires got in the yellow, grip was being noticeable reduced on corners, mainly at even corners. DjC, coming from his pitstop, quickly reached me and lapped me.
I tood advantage of his slipstream to remain there till almost the end of the race. For a moment I tried to outlap him as he seemed to struggle with front grip at some corners but as I saw I couldn't get enough advantage I gave back my position and remained behind him.
Not the best of comebacks. :-\
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