15-12-2014, 10:37 AM
Hi all,
I like cars without wings so I will miss this bt20...
Last Friday I was just back from 2 weeks holidays ;D when I found the announcement of the last race of the season. I had just a couple of hours on Saturday to tune my setup and get used to bt20 and lemans track. I already knew the track, but never tried with this car.
My target was to finish.
I was not able to be consistent or do a good lap time so starting from the last grid line was not so bad for a 2 hours race.
I was not even sure whether I was able to keep concentration for so long, so I went for a 2 pit stop strategy and finished the race with more than 40litres in the tank :
I need to review my fuel calculation procedure 
After avoiding incident in first lap and getting rid of some faster drivers ;D (letting them pass) I was in a comfortable position in the middle of nowhere, so my first stint was good and I was 6-7th after my first stop at 10 or 11th lap.
Eventually some faster drivers caught me, I tried to not to put much fight and let them go, while others, in front, suffered accidents so I regained lost positions.
Right before my second pit stop Gorka overlapped me, I was 7th before pitting an peeing (too much beer?)
and 8th after that...again with huge gaps in front and behind what was a relief since I had more than 70litres of fuel.
Finished in a really good 8th position 8), sadly that was mostly due to accidents of others :-\
I am willing to start a new season and I hope to have more time to practice and fight in all events.
Thanks all, specially Paul and Nikos, for these nice racing evenings :-*
I like cars without wings so I will miss this bt20...
Last Friday I was just back from 2 weeks holidays ;D when I found the announcement of the last race of the season. I had just a couple of hours on Saturday to tune my setup and get used to bt20 and lemans track. I already knew the track, but never tried with this car.
My target was to finish.
I was not able to be consistent or do a good lap time so starting from the last grid line was not so bad for a 2 hours race.
I was not even sure whether I was able to keep concentration for so long, so I went for a 2 pit stop strategy and finished the race with more than 40litres in the tank :
I need to review my fuel calculation procedure After avoiding incident in first lap and getting rid of some faster drivers ;D (letting them pass) I was in a comfortable position in the middle of nowhere, so my first stint was good and I was 6-7th after my first stop at 10 or 11th lap.
Eventually some faster drivers caught me, I tried to not to put much fight and let them go, while others, in front, suffered accidents so I regained lost positions.
Right before my second pit stop Gorka overlapped me, I was 7th before pitting an peeing (too much beer?)
and 8th after that...again with huge gaps in front and behind what was a relief since I had more than 70litres of fuel.Finished in a really good 8th position 8), sadly that was mostly due to accidents of others :-\
I am willing to start a new season and I hope to have more time to practice and fight in all events.
Thanks all, specially Paul and Nikos, for these nice racing evenings :-*