05-11-2012, 09:05 AM
Mi report.
Qualifying
I spent half the qualifying updating and testing my new pit strategy. Since we were not changing tyres things changed completely. I did some calculations during that session and decided to change from 6-5 lap strategy to a 9-2 strategy. This meant starting with more fuel but changing the pitstop duration from 42sec to 27sec (refuelling 16l instead of 40l)
I managed a 4th place which was not as good as I'd preffered.
Race 1.
With such a heavy car I struggled to make my usual fast starts. Managed to go safely through the first curve begind Johannes and take Nik's position at the first curve. At the braking of the third curve I suffered a sudden mayor drop in frames and ended losing control and hitting the tyres pile, damaging the car an finding myself in the second half of the pack struggling to control the car mainly on the brakings. Thanks to my quicker pit strategy I managed to recover the place to Everon, Martin Cooper and David Coyne at the end of the race.
Race 2.
Starting 6th I managed to avoid the hell that happened behind me. I saw through the mirrors some car braking too late and taking many cars behind. So I found myself at the end of the first pack. At this point some people at the front had incidents and so I started taking positions. People started pitting and that left me second, and finally first for a single lap. In my calculations I was about to make it third after my pitsop. But at the very last lap before stopping Marcel T made a mistake in front of me and I could not avoid him crashing into him and losing some seconds that costed me a couple of good positions (nothing to blame Marcel T, he spun and he could do nothing to avoid me either). I finally ended fifth (don't remember well)
Race 3.
Start from the back was careful. At the exit of the first curve I found myself in the middle of a sandwich between Nik (I think) and Fergy. Though no drama happened car was slightly damaged there. I was in a heavy traffic group of cars at this first lap. At the second lap, David Cr made some kind of suicide dive to somebody's white eve at turn 6 ending in a collision and a spin. He did not wait for the cars behind to pass (me included) and tried to recover unsafely crossing in my way and therefor crashing into him and severly damage my car. At this point car was undriveable and ended crashing at the chicane 2 curves later. I decided it was not worth going on, repairs would take several minutes and due to anger I left the server.
Qualifying
I spent half the qualifying updating and testing my new pit strategy. Since we were not changing tyres things changed completely. I did some calculations during that session and decided to change from 6-5 lap strategy to a 9-2 strategy. This meant starting with more fuel but changing the pitstop duration from 42sec to 27sec (refuelling 16l instead of 40l)
I managed a 4th place which was not as good as I'd preffered.
Race 1.
With such a heavy car I struggled to make my usual fast starts. Managed to go safely through the first curve begind Johannes and take Nik's position at the first curve. At the braking of the third curve I suffered a sudden mayor drop in frames and ended losing control and hitting the tyres pile, damaging the car an finding myself in the second half of the pack struggling to control the car mainly on the brakings. Thanks to my quicker pit strategy I managed to recover the place to Everon, Martin Cooper and David Coyne at the end of the race.
Race 2.
Starting 6th I managed to avoid the hell that happened behind me. I saw through the mirrors some car braking too late and taking many cars behind. So I found myself at the end of the first pack. At this point some people at the front had incidents and so I started taking positions. People started pitting and that left me second, and finally first for a single lap. In my calculations I was about to make it third after my pitsop. But at the very last lap before stopping Marcel T made a mistake in front of me and I could not avoid him crashing into him and losing some seconds that costed me a couple of good positions (nothing to blame Marcel T, he spun and he could do nothing to avoid me either). I finally ended fifth (don't remember well)
Race 3.
Start from the back was careful. At the exit of the first curve I found myself in the middle of a sandwich between Nik (I think) and Fergy. Though no drama happened car was slightly damaged there. I was in a heavy traffic group of cars at this first lap. At the second lap, David Cr made some kind of suicide dive to somebody's white eve at turn 6 ending in a collision and a spin. He did not wait for the cars behind to pass (me included) and tried to recover unsafely crossing in my way and therefor crashing into him and severly damage my car. At this point car was undriveable and ended crashing at the chicane 2 curves later. I decided it was not worth going on, repairs would take several minutes and due to anger I left the server.
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